Vera Claythorne And Then There Were None

Sometimes guilt overwhelms them and they are forced to do things that trace back to their roots… Each person on the island shows that at the beginning of terror they can maintain their humanity until something pushes them over the edge. Until one tiny thing in the matter of all the chaos turns the switch off inside of their brain. To where they can't think or do anything that isn't a strategy to protect and secure themselves. To protect their identity even when there's no longer a trace of it. They will protect their past because the people of their past will remember them for who they were then, and not who they are now. Agatha Christie in the book “And Then There Were None”, constantly shows that when their being is threatened they will revert back to their animalistic roots. Above all Christie shows this the most within the characters Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard. These two characters fit together because of the constant action they draw towards themselves and others around them. Their constant flashbacks that

He draws attention to himself by taking action within the small group of ten people on the island. Lombard proves himself over and over again by taking Vera Claythorne and protecting her from the other ten people on the island. Each person is convicted of a murder, meaning that one person on the island is slowly killing more people each time something on the island occurred closely following the poem “ten little soldier boys”. Lombard takes it upon himself to protect himself and Claythorne. Each time there is an immediate threat against one of the residents he takes back to his roots of humanity and fights against anything and anyone. Christie even compares Lombard to a “vigourous wolf, who is always on the lookout”. Lombard uses those senses to last until the end of the book, one of the only reasons Lombard isn't the survivor is because he let his guard down and trusted