And Then There Were None

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There are many individuals to take justice into their own hands; these people do not have that right. The only people who take the right to bring justice to individuals are the police; the people who gather rock solid evidence against the accused. There is a police presence in both works, they are however, present at different points in the works. In Stiletto, the police presence is present throughout the entire movie, while in And Then There Were None, the police presence is heavily featured at the end of the novel. In both works, the police force is investigating multiple deaths. In the beginning of Stiletto, the police are called scene, in which one man’s throat is cut, and the other man has been gutted. The latter of the two survives. The police then follow up on a string of murders, which we know to have been committed by Raina, on her journey for justice. Detective Hanover in Stiletto doesn’t believe that the murderer is a woman, because of the amount of strength she would have had to exert in order to slice the man’s throat. She was, however, proven wrong by a camera still More bodies start piling up, as the police are not able to apprehend Raina in sufficient time. The police continue to investigate and they connect several of the victims. The force is puzzled with one aspect of the connections; none of them have any association with Virgil Valados, the leader of the Greek mob, the victim of the gutting, and …show more content…
There are many different reasons as to why people strive for justice. Justice cannot only be sought out by people based in reality; the fight for justice also applies to fictional characters. Through the fictitious works of Stiletto and And Then There Were None, as well as the real life stories of Amber Wright and Saul Castillo, it is evident that all persons, regardless of their state of reality and reasoning, have a drive for receiving justice and will stop at nothing to obtain

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