A major symbol throughout the whole book is the ten little soldier boys. The ten little soldiers are evident in two visible ways. The first way includes the ten little soldier boys figurines, which are placed on the dining room table.
Every time someone is killed, a soldier is taken away secretly, without anyone seeing a little soldier being removed. This leads all the characters to realize that the ten people in the house each represent one of the little soldiers on the dining table. The other way that the ten little soldier boys are shown is through the rhyme that is written and hung in every bedroom in the house. The rhyme is a story about ten little soldiers who died one by one, until there are none left. Each death that occurs in the house is based on the rhyme that is written and happens very similarly to the death in the rhyme. As the characters start to realize that the deaths occurring in their house are similar to the deaths that occur in the rhyme, and in the same order, they are able to predict how the next death is going to happen. Although they have an idea of how the next murder is going to happen, they have no way of stopping it. This leads the last death to be done by choice, based on following the ending to the rhyme.
*"Ten Little Indians" is the original rhyme, which was later changed to "Ten Little Soldier Boys". This is the original rhyme song.
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