In class, we read “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie. In the book we were given ten murders but one serial killer. The characters who commit the murders do so out of love, carelessness, desire for personal gain, or a fanatic personality. The two characters this essay will focus on will be Vera Claythorn and General John Gordon Macarthur. In fact, Vera Claythorn killed a boy she was the governess for, his name was Cryil. In addition, Cryil had an uncle named Hugo that Vera was madly in love with, but he was broke unless Cryil died. When Vera was watching him she told him to swim to the rocks and she would distract his mother. While he was swimming to these rocks he started to drown and eventually died. Hugo knew what she had done
