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** This goes back to the British class system of the time: Rogers (who is repeatedly shown to be an intensely conventional and unimaginative man) 'knows his place', and it isn't with the company, regardless of the situation. Granted, this is probably dependent more on Christie's readers accepting this stereotype than the validity of the type itself.

** To be fair, [[The Movie]] fixed this:

''Everyone:'' NO! }}

** Plus, would it had done much good? He would still be on a island with an axe crazy murderer.

** True, but it's clear that Miss Brent also knew her servant had been abandoned by both the baby's father and her parents; instead of responding with compassion and assistance, she turned her out and refused to give a reference -- which, in combination with the baby, meant she'd effectively made the girl unemployable. Thus a strong case can be made that Miss Brent represented the girl's last hope, and that her actions were what tipped her over the edge to suicide.

** The fact that she'd turned her back on the servant girl out of self-righteous intolerance could well have been the deciding factor, as it made Miss Brent a [[Holier Than Thou]] hypocrite: one who callously consigned someone who desperately needed her help to despair, in the name of what's ''supposed'' to be a compassionate faith. Plus, the servant's ''unborn baby'' died too, and it certainly shouldn't have paid for its mother's faux pas.

** Remember, U.N. Owen kills his victims in order of increasing moral culpability, so the first few ''had'' to be less flagrantly to blame than the rest. Emily is the ''least'' remorseful of the ones who'd killed people through indirect action (withholding medicine, giving suicidal orders, steering a jury) rather than direct and willful crimes (stealing supplies, planting evidence, leading a poor swimmer to the beach). Anthony Marston, the least remorseful of all, goes first because Owen has pegged him for a complete sociopath, incapable of having his nerves racked by guilt and fear.

 

** What, ''Ten Little Niggers''? [[Sarcasm Mode|Gee, I have no idea.]] Seriously, I think you're referring to the ''second'' original title, ''Ten Little Indians''. Not anywhere near as bad, no, but still unnecessary. (Both titles, BTW, reference a nursery rhyme that runs through the book, which has likewise been updated through the years.)

** ''Ten Little Yidies'', ''Ten Little Jhonnies (19th centriy Chinese immigrant in Britain)'', there's a variation of any race if you want to find one. Seriously.

*** "Negro" isn't exactly an accepted term anymore either, at least in America.

*** What is true in US is not true in the rest of the world. At last in Latin America the term 'negro' is fairly acceptable one (not "politically correct", but not derogatory either. I don't know how things went in Russia, but in Brazil the name change(at 2008) was considered unnecessary.

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