The book " The Tenth Man" by Graham Greene takes place in
France in the 1940's during the German occupation. The book
begins in a German prison with the narrator talking about
the prisoners. He singles out two, the Mayor of Bourge and
Pierre an engine driver. Through a situation concerning
these two men, we are introduced to the main character,
Jean-Louis Chavel who later changes his last name to
Charlot. The narrator goes on to describe how the prisoner
can hear the executions that occur every night.
One night a German was killed, so for punishment three
prisoners were to be killed from each shed. To be fair, the
men in the cell wherein the story begins, drew marked paper
from a shoe. Chavel drew the last marked slip which
condemned him to death and he became hysterical. In his
hysteria he offered to give every thing he owned to someone
if he would die for him. A man named Janvier, thinking of
his sister and mother, spoke up and took his offer. After
the agreement, Janvier drew up a will leaving everything he
now owned to his sister and mother. The next morning he was
executed.
The story then shifts to months later in Paris where
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