Using an Allusion to Prove Writing Craft

     I am a little over halfway through my book, "And Then There Were None", by Agatha Christie. Since lasts time I posted TWO more people have died, and as expected no one knows the murderer. I will say that the murder did follow the sinister nursery rhyme and I will get into that in the next paragraph.

     The poem to left is not the exact poem from the book, but it is the most clear readable poem I could find. Replace "Little Soldier Boys" with "Little Indians" and that is the exact poem. As you can see in stanza five, the poem describes someone being killed by a bumblebee. The character in the book is killed by the stabbing of a syringe into her neck. The liquid was poisonous venom from a wasp that was on the island. I really enjoy how the author closely follows the poem but does not follow it exactly. I believe that it builds suspense by letting you in on half the secret but not all of it so that you will keep reading to see what will happen. The next stanza states that the boy will die by getting in chancery(a court of equity). Again, the author does not copy the poem exactly, but follows the main idea. The character that is murdered is actually a judge and the way he is murdered is kind of comedic but spooky at the same time. The other characters find the judge sitting in a chair with a purple robe on and a huge white judge wig with a bullet whole in his head. Coincidentally, one of the characters pistols went missing about a day before the murder, and he found that pistol sitting in his room after the murder. I am excited to see what will happen next I will keep you updated.