Monday, December 3, 2012
And Then There Were None #2
Describe the poem Vera Claythorne finds on display above the mantel in her bedroom in chapter 2. What kind of poem is it? How are tlhe poems meaning and imagery changed by its context in this novel? How does it relate to the centerpiece of small china figures that first appears in the subsequent dinner scene in chapter 3? Hwo does this poem relate to the larger plot or structure of the novel?
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It is a nursery rhyme that is about how 10 little soldiers are slowly picked off until there are none left. Instead of soldiers, the "murderers" are being picked off. The china figures are little soldiers, relating to the poem and tying the house all together. It is foreshadowing what is to come, how all the guests are going to be killed off.
ReplyDeleteits a creepy scary poem about soldiers dying. they found it relates to the situation they are in and how they are dying. the china figures go along with the peoms. The poem is how they are dying and in the poem its "and then there were none" and that is what i think is going to happen to them in the book
ReplyDeleteThis poem is a nursery ryhme. The meaning of the poem is that there are ten little soldier boys and one dies in each verse. The little figures in the dining room are ten small ceramic soldier boys. The poem relates to the plot because there are ten guests and ten soldier boys and the guests die one by one and the deaths relate to the deaths of the soldier boys in each verse of the nursery ryhme.
ReplyDeletethe peom on the mantle is very creepy. its a nursery ryme thats framed. its about these ten soldiers who sound pretty insane. they came to soldier island and were either kiled or died off. there sre these ten figures in the dining room. they are little soldiers. the poem relates to the plot because there are actually ten people who are invited to the island just like in the poem where there are 10 soldiers who are at the island.
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