Final Blog Entry of The Tenth Man

In the last portion of the novel The Tenth Man a lot of things took place. The man Mr. Mangeot who was pretending to be someone he really wasn’t openly admitted that he was lying to Mademoiselle the entire time. He really turned out to be a wanted murderer, but he new Mademoiselle’s brother which helped him out tremendously because he was able to tell her the real story about her brother and his death. Once mademoiselle’s mother died she is all alone without a companion. Since Mr. Mangeot has feelings and cares for her he is trying to comfort her. This novel suggest a time period where many people are gullible, and sure believers of someone that they barely even know. It also suggest that people of this day and age could get away with just about anything. Like pretending to be someone who they are not, or even a murder. Overall I don’t think it was the most interesting novel I have ever read but towards the end the action and suspense picks up. That is why I somewhat enjoyed reading the novel The Tenth Man.

Blog Entry # 4

As the story Progresses the plot of the story doesn’t seem like its becoming all that interesting. The man who was sold Janevers riches, land, and life has now moved in with Janevers mother and sister. The man Mr. Mangeot who is now living in Janevers house is starting to have a crush on one of the new characters. (Janevers sister. His feelings are making him feel guilty, because he feels like now that he is living in Janevers house and Janever is now dead he has feelings for his sister. He claims that whenever they’re alone they make intement eye contact. In the most recent chapter he has taken the sister into town because she hasn’t left the house in ages, she believes that she must stay home incase somebody shows up. She also doesn’t like the people of the village nearby. Once Mr. Mangeot tells her that they’re going into town not the village she immediately agrees to go along and they’re off. As they approach town they come across a Parisian man who goes by the name Roche, and Mr. Roche doesn’t think much of Mr. Mangeot because he believes he’s a German. After a angry conversation they both part separate ways.

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.

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.