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Symbolism In Dance By Earnest

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Ten people get invited to an island. Some ride a train and some drive there.Some are there for vacation and some are there to work. The private island has one house on it. It is a beautiful modern house. When they get there they all realize the owner is not there. His name in UN Owen but they are not sure who he is. But they are not too concerned about the owner not being there. But once the bodies start dropping they get concerned. Every bedroom has a poem called ten little indians on the wall. And there are 10 little indian statues on the table in the dining room, one for each of the guests. After they eat dinner on the first night a record plays accusing them of murders they committed in the past. They are worried and start talking about it. And then the first one dies. One by one all the guests start dying. They are trapped on an island with no way to escape.
One of the main themes is that what comes around goes around. All the people on the island were responsible for somebodies death in the past and were very punished for it. Another theme is you don’t know what people are capable of by looking at them. All the guests look like normal people and not criminals. But they all killed people.
The two big symbols in the book are the statues …show more content…

“Why did I never see this face properly before? It’s a wolf, that’s what it is, a wolf’s face, those horrible teeth.” (Christie, p 238) This is Vera Claythorne thinking to herself near the end of the book. She is talking about Mr Lombard. They have just found Dr Armstrong’s body on the beach and know he’s not the killer. This quote shows how Vera is changing. She has always trusted Lombard and considered him a friend. They even flirt a little. Now she realizes that since its just the two of them she is not safe. She thinks he is the killer. She sees the true monster coming out for the first time. Vera always knew he let people die in the jungle but it didn’t bother her before. Now she sees him a different way. He is

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