Blog #5

 In the chapters “Valerie”, “The Verdict”, and “Values”, Evey is locked up in a prison after spending the night with Gordon. She’s tortured and beat after repeatedly refusing to help the detectives. One night after coming back from what seemed to be like a torture session, she heard someone slide a piece of paper into the rat’s hole. And when she opens it up she notices that it’s a letter from her neighbor next door. It’s person by the name of Valerie that was imprisoned for being a homosexual. She tells Evey her life story and what caused her to be the way she is. She also tells her to never give up her last inch. Stating that the last inch is pretty much what you begin to live for. It’s not big and it’s not too strong but it’s that one thing that’s keeping her alive. After reading Valerie’s letter Evey begins to realize what her place in life actual is and starts to realize what is actually important and what is not. Then when the guard asks her again if she wants to sign the paper just as reassurance. But Evey denies and says she’d rather die. And that’s where this book takes a complete 180 because the guard then lets her know that she is now free. After walking out of the cell she then walks into V’s room and immediately seems him. Without any hesitation she begins questioning V’s theory on cutting her hair and placing her in a hellhole such as that. She then breaks down and V takes her to the roof where it’s pouring down rain and Evey is just standing there with her head back embracing it. 

V is pretty much teaching Evey to not feel or fear anything. When she says that she’d rather die than sign the paper it showed V that she no longer feared death as a whole. He explains to Evey that the way she felt there is how V feels now after being put through the similar situation.

I think V is somewhat of a hero in this situation. It was the only way to in a sense persuade Evey into understanding what V feels. She was uncertain what V was doing and the only way for V to know for shore that she wasn’t going to ruin V’s ultimate plan. It may have been an evil thing done but it was needed because What V was asking Evey to do required no emotion and remorse.

When Evey lifts V’s she sees herself. It symbolizes her pretty much taking over V. She is now the new V. As a reader it’s kind of like a flashback to when Evey was locked in the prison and tortured because it can be portrayed as him trying to continue V even when his time is up. At first when she starts walking over she sees her dad picturing who it might be and quickly denies that theory but then when she finally removes the mask, it was kind of like looking in a mirror for her. It was herself that she saw. She is V for Vendetta.