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    Vera Claythorne Tragedy

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    a horrible event took place. I had the pleasure of interviewing three people who witnessed this tragedy; Vera Claythorne, Justice Wargrave, and Philip Lombard. The three shared that eight people were invited to a place called Indian Island for different reasons, for example, Vera Claythorne thinks she has been hired as a secretary, Philip Lombard to look out for trouble over the weekend, and Justice Wargrave thinks he is going to visit old friends. The guests are escorted to the island by boat, where

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    Agatha Christie's riveting novel, And Then There Were None, is one that has suspense all the way to the very end. Eight strangers are invited to Indian Island, off the English coast. Their names are Dr. Armstrong, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, William Blore, Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Tony Marston, and Judge Wargrave. All think they are meeting someone different for different reasons. When they arrive on the island though, they are greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, who are servants for the

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    What Is Vera's Guilt

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    looked into her horrified ones.” Lombard and his tribe were lost in the bush so he and a few other people took all the food and left everyone else to die. He doesn’t feel any guilt because he claims it was a matter of self-preservation and that natives don’t mind dying. This is completely different than what happened to Vera because she felt overwhelmed with guilt, to the point where she hung herself because she thought that was what Hugo wanted for her. Lombard admitted his crime, but he was not

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    Throughout the whole book, Lombard displays a high level of confidence in himself and his abilities but his confidence also turns to arrogance. In chapter 7, Lombard, Blore and Armstrong suspect that a murderer is hiding on the island and decide to go hunting after him. Armstrong warns them that “”He will be dangerous.” Phil Lombard laughed. The “Dangerous” – What is it? Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? I’ll be dangerous if I get a hold of him!””(page 119). Though Lombard has experience in dangerous

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    dreadful will always be paid for their crimes. The setting of the novel takes place on Indian Island, a fictional island near the coast of England. The time in the novel is during 1930s. The characters are Justice Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Dr. Armstrong, Tony Marston, William Blore, Thomas Rogers, and Ethel Rogers. Each of these guests except for the Rogers, are invited to the house for possible employment and an unexpected holiday. Soon after the arrival

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    Starloff, and General MacArthur was renamed Sir John Mandrake. The way Lombard was invited to the island was unique to each: In the book he was invited directly by Isaac Morris, but received a letter in the movie. Murders some characters committed also differed: Emily Brent killed her nephew, and Vera was accused of killing her sister’s fiancé (which later proved false). At the end of the movie, Lombard actually happened to not be Lombard, but a friend of Lombard’s. Overall, the characters kept

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    last left of in and Then There Were None. The guest have just searched the house for Lombards revolver. When they don’t find it they are very suspicious of each other and decide to stay together. When Vera decides to go to her room some seaweed hanging from the ceiling scares her. In the commotion Justice Wargraves is supposedly killed.The guests then decide to lock themselves in their rooms for the night. Lombard discovers that his revolver has been returned to his room. During the night Blore hears

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    twist at the end of the movie. The ending of the book is Vera kills Lombard, then proceeds to kill herself. It is later revealed that Justice Wargraves is the real killer and he never died, but he is terminally ill. The movie’s ending is Ann pretends to shoot Lombard and she goes into the house and finds Cannon in a chair as he reveals his plan of how he killed everyone to her. After he explains his plan he drinks poison and Lombard walks in unharmed.

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    Isolating Yourself Won't Help Anything On an island with 10 strangers not one knowing each other, 2 are left, one if them is the killer, who is the killer. The book “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie is about Emily Brent, Philip Lombard and 8 other people are driven to this mysterious island by a note. The note was written by U.N. Owen. When they get there, there is a recording of someone's voice. Saying they are accused of murdering people, all of them in which don’t want admit to doing

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    and straight back. You know I did.”’ Armstrong’s only motive was to prevent himself or Philip Lombard, who were searching the island together for an unaccounted person, from becoming possible candidates for U.N. Owen, the serial killer who had bamboozled all of the guests to come to Soldier Island. However, Justice Wargrave axes the reputability of this accusation by proving that the time period that Lombard and Armstrong were apart was unquantifiable. He makes the argument that the two, who neglected

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