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Character Sketch

Each of the ten guests at Indian Island have their own traits that differentiate them from each other. Out of all the characters, favorite is Lawrence Wargrave. Every person in book has something that most people can relate to, but the most unique person, in my opinion, is Wargrave. Wargrave is a short, older man who is described as looking like a turtle. He is also a very serious and focused man that doesn't have much of a sense of humor. Wargrave is also considers himself to be a smart and logical man. From a very young age, he has had a very strong interest in murder and death, which later led to the murders on Soldier Island.

After reading the entire book, And Then There Were None, I learned that it had not mentioned a lot about Wargrave's family or past. All that we know from his past is that he had recently retired from being a judge who sentenced people to death. We also know that he had first started to develop a love for murder as a child when Wargrave killed innocent animals. Those two facts are the only facts that have taken place way back in time. Other than that, we know that Wargrave has been plotting the killings on Soldier Island For at least a couple of months. Wargrave wanted to create a crime that could not be solved by anyone, so he started to plan how he would kill each guest to the Island and in why. That is all that we know about his past life that lead up to him killing the guests at Soldier Island.

Lawrence Wargrave is a creative man who tries also likes to follow the rules whenever possible. Right before he killed Emily Brent, he released bees. This shows that he likes to do what the nursery rhyme says, yet is creative enough to make the situation as similar as possible as the rhyme. I know he is creative because he managed to build a contraption that allowsed him to kill himself with a gun, but then the gun would be taken away to reduce suspicion. Wargrave is also very intelligent. He was able to kill all of the guests in four days without anyone having the slightest idea that it was him. I was very surprised to know that Wargrave is the killer because I assumed that he died. But he was smart enough to fake his death and kill the remaining guest without having any kind of suspicion.

There isn't to much on what i dislike about Wargrave. The only thing that I would have liked to see is more about his past to get to know a little more about him. I do like a lot of things about him like how he is intelligent enough to commit a "perfect" crime. I also like how he is mysterious. Wargrave left us with a lot of questions that was later solved. In the epilogue, it explains everything to why he has killed them to how he killed them. A part of Wargrave is very vigilant. He eplained that he wanted to kill them because the law could not do anything about the crimes that they have commited. I like this trait because it gives the story a little bit of actionm

I am drawn to Wargrave because he seems to be the most unique and hardest to imagine. All of the others can be thought of as someone you have met before, but he seems to be the most bizare of them all. I also like him because Wargrave is intelligent, creative, and isn't afraid to think out of the box. I like how Wargrave managed to kill everyone in a different way according to the nursery rhyme. That is a different way to kill people instead of killing everyone all at once, which today, is comsidered common. Wargrave is a special character in my eyes that has manadged to make the story special and unique in a very unexpected way.