Blog entry #2

The story is progressing but very slowly. There is much more dialogue, than there is action, and extermination in the novel The Tenth Man thus far. They’re at the point in the story where the guards come to the main characters cell, and tell them that they have to kill someone from there cell. Someone suggests oldest goes first, someone suggests that the poorest does. They finally come to the conclusion that they’ll do something like pull straws, but with paper. After a while of paper pulling, the richest man in the cell picks the shorter paper. Once he realizes hes the one who must die, he freaks out and makes a big drama seen. He offers the guards all of his riches, all his land, and everything he has. After a long while of discussing the matter the coward gets to live just because of his money. But freedom doesn’t do much for him because once he gets out of the concentration camp he will broke and he wont have anything to his name.