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And Then There Were Four Analysis
Do you find yourself questioning society? If so, then, Nancy Werlin is your author with her book, “And Then, There Were Four”, also questioning humankind, there is, “The One Memory of Flora Banks,” authored by Emily Barr. You will either scorn or acknowledge the way of society today and in these novels, starting with Nancy Werlin. When a building collapses around five teenagers and they barely escape, they began questioning everything that is happening. They piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all. And if so how did their parents come together and why? With two romances and a mysterious murder, they must all come together and save themselves. And then the author of, “The One Memory of Flora Banks” by …show more content…
Starting with the first book, “And Then There Were Four”, we know it is about five misfit teens at a private school who find each other at a “Leaders Meetings”. There is not a lot of character development except for the two narrators Caleb and Saralinda, but the action, starts in the beginning but develops fast over time. All five of them are called into a condemned building for a meeting, they are already anxious, a windstorm is erupting outside of the building. Minutes into the meeting the roof of the building has collapsed and almost all of them are trapped inside of the rubble, they all survive but one of them dies shortly afterward in an automobile accident. The remaining students band together, to get more information, and they come to a conclusion: each of their parents is involved in a conspiracy to murder them. Saralinda and Caleb are attracted to each other but slow to act on it although she had fallen in love awfully quick with Antoine. Saralinda has diabetes and a cane but she is a hopeless romantic. She loves her overbearing mother but wishes for more freedom. Caleb has a dark side, but is fiercely loyal to his friends; his second-person narration reveals that he might have sociopathic tendencies. His psychiatrist father has his own sociopathic tendencies. The other three, Antoine, Evangeline, and Kenyon along with their parents are similar. The entire group is also known for its diversity in terms of ethnicity, sexuality, ability in ways that are both helpful to the plot. The book of, “The One Memory of Flora Banks”, “I can remember it. The stone, or Drake, made me remember. Perhaps this is what it is to fall in love.” When Flora’s parents leave to go to Paris to look after Jacob, they leave Flora with her best friend, Paige. But her friend has seen the writing on Flora’s arms, and the notes

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