UN+Owen+Character+Sketch+WP

In the book “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie, a group of ten people is invited to an island by several different people. When the people arrive at the island they find out their host is U.N Owen, who is mysteriously no where to be found. Suddenly, one by one the guests start dying. The deaths correlate from the poem “Ten Little Indians." The first two of poison, and the third of a hatchet in the back of his head. From what we have read so far information leads me to believe there is no Owen and it is someone in the group of ten. I know this because on page 135 Justice Wargrave says “It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us..."

I believe that Mr. Owen is actually Justice Wargrave. The reason I think it is him is because he seems to be the one leading the search for who Mr. Owen is, which directs attention off of Mr. Wargrave. He also is the one that questions everyone else, such as when the record stating all the murders was played on the gramophone. Wargrave says “Who put that record on the gramophone? Was it you Rogers?” That was on page 48. My personal opinion of Wargrave is that he is a hypocrite because he questions everyone else and not himself. I also think though because he was a judge for the court, people tend to think that he is responsible and would never break the law.

I think on page 42-43 when the gramophone plays the murder records, that means that the person that is U.N Owen knows the people mutually that were invited to Indian Island. I think the ultimate goal for Mr. Owen or Justice Wargrave is to kill everyone for the past crimes that everyone else committed. On page 42 the gramophone says, "you are charged with the following indictments” so being a judge and knowing that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the cases in court, he did one mass murder of all of the killers to bring justice into his own hands.

In conclusion, I think that Justice Wargrave is U.N Owen and is trying to kill everyone for their past crimes that were not proven guilty in court. The reason I think that is because he wants to bring these people to justice and he is the one questioning everyone else directing the attention away that he could be the murderer.