And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

Vera Claythorne never actually loved Hugo, she only wanted to marry a rich man so she wouldn’t have to work as a teacher anymore. The only obstacle in her genius plan was Cyril. This is proven on page 217 where it proclaims, “Horrid whiney spoilt spoilt little brat! If it weren’t for him, Hugo would be rich… able to marry the girl he loved….” Vera Claythorne, a narcissist, only wanted to get what she desired because she believed her issues were more significant than anyone else’s. While Hugo perceived that Vera loved him and they meant to live happily ever after, the reality was that Vera was only taking advantage of

Vera Elizabeth Claythorne was an attractive and athletic woman. “Quite attractive- a bit schoolmistressy perhaps” (Christie 5).She was working as a physical education teacher when she received a letter from U.N Owen to be her secretary for a summer job. Everyone that had been invited to the island had a dark secret. Vera was accused of murdering Cyril Hamilton, the young boy she used to look after. She was involved with Cyril's uncle, Hugo. They planned get married but were unable to because Hugo did not have the money to support a family. If Cyril were to die, Hugo would inherit all of the money. Even though Vera knew that Cyril was unable to swim out deep into the sea water, she allowed him too. As Cyril was drowning, Vera pretended to try

And then there were none by Agatha Christie is a bestselling mystery novel about ten strangers that get lured to an island by a physically unknown person or persons, in this book they arrive at the island but each night one of them is murdered, thus leaving no one in the end, as the title infers. But, there are characters that the author may have felt sympathy for, such as Mrs. Rogers, Captain Lombard, and the judge. Mrs. Rogers seems terrified and shaky, almost as if she knows she is going to die. Captain Lombard is a somewhat cocky yet humble man with low expectations in life. The judge is an angry old man who is very suspicious but he has his perks I suppose. Out of all the characters the readers

Some will say that Justice Wargrave was just in his actions of murdering the nine people and that they would have received the death penalty if they did receive a fair trial. Most of the characters did not kill anyone, but their actions lead to one's death, which is not worthy of the death penalty. For example Emily Brent, who states, “It was some time before i found out that she was what they call ‘in trouble’ . . . It was a great shock to me . . . Naturally I did not keep her an hour under my roof . . . Yes, she threw herself into the river (Christie 110-111).” Emily Brent fired a women who got pregnant out of wedlock, who then committed

The short story, "My Last Duchess," by critically acclaimed, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, is an intriguing and thought-provoking work of prose. Though it ties considerably to the famous work by the same name, written by Robert Browning, it also brings its own ideas, and symbols to the table. The most prominent symbolic link within this story is the representation between the characterization of Miss Bessie--the high school english teacher--and the narrator 's ideas, thoughts, and fears about life. The term life -- for the purposes of this essay -- is defined as the existence of an individual person and their course through the world. In “My Last Duchess,” the narrator 's life is symbolically represented through Miss Bessie by the character traits of a positive reputation, overcoming obstacles, and the solitary nature of people.

Have you ever wondered why our justice system is so unfair? I am sure everyone would agree that someone who is a serial killer of infants and children deserves the death penalty even more so than someone who commits a lesser crime gets the death penalty as well. For example, a woman gets the death penalty for killing 7 men, but another woman does not get the death penalty for killing eleven plus infants and children. There is one woman behind my questioning. Throughout my research I decided to find a crime I never heard about before, which lead me to a woman named Genene Jones. Furthermore, I will discuss Jones’s life leading up to the events, the crimes she committed, as well as her life now.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) said this famous quote at his first inaugural address, when he took one of the most important jobs in the world, becoming the president of the United States. He then went on to do what no other president had done before―be elected for more than two terms. The people elected Franklin for four consecutive terms during one of the nation’s hardest times, and he and his wife helped pull the nation to its feet. This period of World War II is captured in the biography No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The author uses countless interviews to piece together the perspective of the home front from

In his short story, Until Gwen, Dennis Lehane engages the reader to experience the world from the protagonist point of view. As the story follows, the main character is released from prison and reunited with his father in search of a hidden stolen diamond. While the writer reveals their dark past and destructive relationship.

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood makes a great case for justice in relation to death. In the book, two criminals, Dick and Perry, worked together to murder the Clutters. They got caught and trial, however at the time Kansas maximum incarceration was life imprisonment with parole and most prisoners are paroled after twenty years. Twenty years of imprisonment for brutally killing four members of the most influential family in the area, causing mass hysteria for everyone in Holcomb and for others who are involved in the case is unquestionably too short. However, is the death penalty fair for both of them, considering Dick had a mental disorder and Perry had a terrible upbringing? This brings us to a bigger, broader question: to what extent does the law and judgement system achieve their main purpose: bringing justice to everyone?

An innocent man is wrongly executed whilst a man who raped and murdered a mother and her thirteen year old daughter spends the rest of his life with three meals a day and cable television. Which of these is the bigger injustice? The use of the death penalty to punish serious crimes is a very controversial topic and there is much debate surrounding the issue. This paper will briefly discuss arguments supporting and against the use of the death penalty.

Persecution of the innocent, a common occurrence in human history, has unfortunately stayed present in our modern era. Muslims are assaulted by islamophobes who assume them to be dangerous to us, and countless black people have been wrongfully shot by the police. These people show modern example of the motif of mockingbirds in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The book takes place in rural Alabama during the Great Depression, a time when lynching black men for false crimes was common. One of these men, Tom Robinson, is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell and is to be defended by Atticus Finch in trial. Lee expresses how it is wrong to harm those who did nothing to bother others, or ‘mockingbirds’, using the characters of Boo Radley,

“ Heroes are made by the path they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” by Brodi Ashton, Everneath. The things you have it's about the choices you make in life whether that person is a hero or not. The novel “ And then there were none” by Agatha Christie is a mystery book about murder happening on the island and at the end everyone is dead. The movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a fiction movie and is about treat rising after 30 years in Galactic Empire, Han Solo. Wargrave fits the archetype of the anti - hero because he lacks heroic traits and was replaced with murderous characteristics and Kylo Ren fits the archetype of the villain because he was the Dark Sided and he was a tragic villain.

Upon reading the book, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, readers may be shocked to see the way it is written. Cormac McCarthy’s style of writing differentiates from other famous authors. He does not use correct punctuations such as apostrophes for contraction words and quotation marks around dialogues or use correct sentence forms. His rhetorical mode makes it difficult for the readers to perceive it but there is a reason as to why he writes this way. The reason why his writing style is so different is because of the way his life influences it. Not only does his life influences his writing style, it also influences what happens in his novels. Everything that Cormac McCarthy writes in his books have a purpose. In order to understand McCarthy’s reason for writing so differently and the themes behind No Country for Old Men, the readers would also have to understand the writer’s life and the effect of its influences.

I set her punishment based on the facts of the case and witness testimony. I took into consideration the fact that she had suffered abuse at the hands of her husband, during what she referred to as “fits of anger”. I found that although she took a man’s life, she sincerely acted out of provocation.

The Scarlet Letter (Figure 1) painted by Hugues Merle in 1861 depicts the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, an adulteress forced to wear the letter “A” upon her bosom forever, becomes an outcast from the community with her daughter, Pearl. Merle was often known for painting scenes of mothers and children. He illustrates the scene of Hester and Pearl sitting in the town square as part of her punishment. The townspeople walk by, pointing fingers and making shrewd remarks. Merle’s painting, his biography, and other renditions of the novel and painting will be later discussed.