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Critical Review of " And Then There Were None" and "A Separate Peace."

During the course of the summer I read two books, A Seperate Peace, by John Nowles, and And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. They were totally opposite types of books but they were both pretty well written with lots of description and insight on what the characters were feeling.
The setting in both books was pretty significant. In the first book, A Seperate Peace, the location, New Hampshire, was not nearly as important as the time. A Seperate Peace took place one summer during the early years of World War II, which affected everyones’s feeling and ways of thinking. The war made everything edgy and unsuspecting because anything could have happened to any one of them while the a war was going on. The war was on everyones mind and it affected many things in the book such as what the characters were doing in preperation for the possibility of going into war. In the second book, And Then There Were None, it is the complete opposite deal with the setting. In this book, th...

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