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In five pages this paper examines the importance of how Agatha Christie uses the setting of weather to develop her plot in her famous murder mystery. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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her readers wanted, but perhaps of even greater importance was her immense knowledge of story construction. By the twentieth century, conventional storytelling was practically engraved in stone. It
dictated that setting was intended to serve as little more than background shading to support the plot (McManis 320). Plot settings were frequently ordinary places that while critical to
move the action toward a satisfactory solution of the crime, were not obtrusive in any way that might influence plot development (McManis 321). An author might use weather, for
example, to convey a certain type of mood for the story, but it serves no other purpose. However, Christie understood the connection between location and weather, and the role
of this cause-and-effect relationship in her storytelling (McManis 327). She often featured her native Devon in her novels because she was familiar with its hilly terrain and its weather
patterns. A fictitious island off the coast of Devon would provide the eerily appropriate setting for Dame Christies most popular mystery, first published as Ten Little Niggers in 1939,
which was quickly changed to Ten Little Indians, and then changed again the following year by her American publisher to the less offensive And Then There Were None. In
this complex tale, the weather setting becomes a supporting character that assists in developing the story and intensifying the level of suspense in climactic moments. The plot involves a congregation
of eight strangers - Dr. Armstrong, William Blore, Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General MacArthur, Anthony "Tony" Marston, and Judge Wargrave - who are invited to an estate on
Indian Island, a fictitious locale situated off the Devon coast, about a mile from the English Channel (Zemboy 162). Greeted by the estate attendants Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, they
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