Rob Richetelli Block: H Mr. Ford

I am currently reading the novel, The Tenth Man, by Graham Greene. In the beginning of the novel there is a fifteen page dialogue of a man named Richard Tripp. Richard is the agent of singer sewing machines. He is unofficially an agent for the secret service. The dialogue sets the reader up to understand the plot, setting, and give you an overall idea of what the book was going to be about. (Even though the dialogue itself was confusing.) The story began in a Nazi concentration camp, and Tripp is the main character thus far. The man inside the camp and in the main characters cell are dreary, and miserable. Alot of there time is spent, trapped in there cell goes to trying to figure out what time of day it was, and gambling one another.

I think that there are almost to many characters in this story. It seems like the story is jumping from character to character and a bit hard to keep track. The characters are trapped in a Nazi concentration camp, and not to many feared for there lives. There is a mayor, a lawyer who so far is the main characters, and a bunch of minor characters who don't exactly have a profession.

I think that pretty soon the novel is going to get interested and I am very eager to read on. In relation to the constant gun-fire, and grenade detonating that the prisoners have heard. It sounds like the novel is heading into an interesting plot. I have a hunch that the guards will try and exterminate their cell, but the men will think of an escape attempt and make it out alive. The lawyer’s house is only a few miles away, and I’m hoping that the main characters will escape and hide out there until this extermination era has ended.

The novel suggests about the time period that Hitler was the ruler, and the novels settings are in Germany around 1935-1940. It shows that these times are very unstable because of the fact that the Germans still believed in exterminating the Jews, and creating a holocaust.