Using Evidence from the Text to Show Suspense

     I am Halfway through my book, "And Then There Were None", and the suspense is immense. Five people have died out of ten and no one knows who or what is killing them. They are left with nothing to do but turn on each other. Each character is equally suspected of the murders and no one is left out. One quote that really shows and magnifies the situation is on page 135 when one of the characters says, " It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us..."(135 Christie) Mr. Owen is the supposed owner of the mansion and he is believed to be the one that is murdering the house guests. The only problem is that there is not a single other person on the island. They can do nothing but suspect each other. It is very interesting to see these characters have to live together while all of this shenanigans is going on. Every one watches there back at all times and never lets their guard down.
     Each murder follows a nursery rhyme that is hung up in each persons bedroom. One example of this is when Rogers(the house butler) goes out to chop wood and gets chopped in the head by another axe. This correlates with the line in the poems that says, "Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks, one chopped himself in halves, and then there were six."(31 Christie) All of the characters find this really suspicious and as they look back they realize that each of the other murders followed the poem. it is going to be very interesting to see if anyone gets murdered and whether it follows the next line of the poem. I will keep you updated.