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Verity

By: Collen Hoover

Colleen Hoover

• Colleen Hoover is a commercially successful American writer, who has sold more than twenty million books.
• She focused on the genres of romantic novels and youth literature.

Corey

Lowen Ashleigh

Lowen´s mom

CHARACTERS

Crew Crawford

Verity Crawford

Chastin

Crawford Twins

Jeremy Crawford

Harper

Manhattan

Crime scene

• Crowded place
• Place where people don't care who you are.

• Car accident

Crawford House

Verity's studio

• A big house.
• A terrifying house.
• A lifeless house.

• A disorganized place.
• A place with many secrets.

Beginning

• The book starts out with a horrible accident that Lowen witnesses when she's walking through the streets of New York. A stranger is killed by a speeding truck, splattering her with blood. • When she begins her interview with Jeremy, she learns that Verity Crawford has been incapacitated in a car accident. • After Verity’s accident, Lowen is hired to write her novels in her place. Although the press that publishes them and Verity’s husband make it clear to the public that another writer will be continuing the series, it’s not truly “Verity’s” work. • When she arrives at the Crawford house, she learns that Verity’s two daughters both died accidentally.

middle

• Lowen settles in the couple's mansion to be able to work on the notes that Verity was working on, hoping to find enough material to start his assignment, but what he did not expect to discover in the chaotic office is an autobiography.• As the story unfolds, it becomes increasingly unclear what is true and what is fabricated. • Verity seems to be in a semi-comatose state, but other events suggest that she’s up and walking around the house. • Her son, Crew, is reticent about his interactions with his mother and about the deaths of his sisters, but won’t explain why. • Jeremy is silent about the actual state of his marriage until after he and Lowen begin their physical affair. • Verity’s actions throughout the novel are intended to gaslight and destabilize Lowen, jeopardizing her position in the Crawford house.

end

• Having killed Verity, Jeremy and Lowen are theoretically free to begin a life together without her influence. • This is complicated by the fact that the manner of her death and for Lowen with the discovery of the letter. • If Lowen were to reveal the contents of the letter, she knows that Jeremy and Crew might be confronted with re–experiencing the loss of Verity. • Lowen chooses to bear the knowledge of having her potentially aided in the murder of a mostly innocent woman completely alone.

final, final and LITERARY DEVICES

• The autobiography: Verity’s secret autobiography, the truth of her situation becomes even more tangled. The autobiography paints Verity as a psychopathic killer. • The letter: the letter she leaves for Jeremy at the end denies all the events in it and shows her to be a loving mother and devoted wife. **** There’s no way for Lowen to know which of these documents is real, and so she chooses the truth that is most convenient for her. She destroys the letter, making sure that no one will ever learn Verity’s version of events but her.

conclusion

What team are you, autobiography team or letter team?