Vera Claythorne And Then There Were None

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In Agatha Christie’s novel And then there were None, the author has many characters that endure a dynamic change. One character that goes through this change is a Character Vera Claythorne who has also dealt with the haunting of a girl named who died on Vera's watch .First in the beginning of the book Vera shows herself being a smart and independent woman. Later on you see she has a dark passed of letting a kid drown on her watch that bugs her time to time but she is able to calm herself. The author illustrates,” So peaceful to-day-sometimes so cruel…. The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned.... Found drowned.... drowned. Drowned at sea.... Drowned-drowned- No, she wouldn't remember.... She would not think of it! ” (Christie 30). …show more content…

Second, towards the middle of the book Vera is reminded more about the event the happened with Cyril's drowning. The reader can see a change in the book when Vera becomes more senile and thinks about the event more and more. The author quotes, “Every time Vera thought of her she seemed to see a pale drowned face with seaweed entangled in the hair. . . . A face that had once been pretty- impudently pretty perhaps-and which was now beyond the reach of pity or terror. (Christie 111). Vera starts to become more anti-social and begins not to sleep. Nonetheless life for Vera gets more abominable. Last, Vera shows her overall dynamic change when she goes insane. At the very end of the book she is the last person on the island and shot her last companion that was on the island with her. The author writes, “What was that-hanging from the hook in the ceiling? A rope with a noose all ready? And a chair to stand upon-a chair that could be kicked away. . . . That was what Hugo wanted. And of course that was the last line of the rhyme. "He went and hanged himself and then there were none. The little china figure fell from her

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