Reading Response: Plot

Reading Time: Literacy Narrative and Short Story 9/24-30 min. 9/25-20 min. 9/26- 20 min. 9/27- 60 min 9/28-25 min.

     In And There Were None, the plot was constantly changing. There were many different subplots, 10 to be exact. Each murder was a subplot on its own. The exposition was very concise. It introduced nearly 15 characters in as many pages. It took almost a quarter of the book for the exposition to make sense. The rising action was pretty obvious in this mystery. The tension of the house in the first couple of days was the majority of the rising action throughout the book as a whole. The rising action for each of the 10 subplots was the setup of each murder, with the climax of each subplot were each murder. Then there would be a quick falling action and it would go back to rising action again.
     And Then There Were None has a very unusual plot. Although it's unusual, it works. You want to read more and more with each little climax. Once you reach the final climax, you can finally take a breath. You finish the book on the falling action, which I thought was very strange. Everything was very open still. I had tons of questions. I decided to read the epilogue, which I never do, and it answered all of my questions. The whole resolution was in the epilogue. I think that this was very risky thing to do. If I were Agatha Christie, the author, I would have just made the epilogue the last chapter so that everyone would read it. Although she takes risks, they're risks that, in my situation, worked.