Chyna Lewis
January 15,2014
Mr.Cahallan
World History Dual Enrollment
Charlotte Gray Summary In 1942 Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job as a medical receptionist. On the train, a man enters her compartment and chats with her, asking questions about her life and expressing interest that she is fluent in French. He gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch. Social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. She soon meets a flight lutenent named Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by the older man from the train, who urges her to meet some of his acquaintances and asks her to contact him when she leaves. She completes her initial training and is on leave when she learns that Gregory's plane has gone down and he's missing. Charlotte signs up for operations in France. She then lands out of the zone, because of two boys on the ground playing with flashlights. They run away, half thinking she's an angel. Her mission is to complete a handover of some radio valves. Her cover immediately is close to being blown, as the contact for the handover is taken by the police in front of her. Her main contact Julien reassigns her to act as a friend of his and housekeeper to his father Levade and he's a painter. He has taken in two Jewish kids André and Jacob after their parents were arrested. As time progresses, the film reveals that the parents were deported to Poland. Charlotte then participates in a resistance action of blowing up a train that has tanks and armaments on it.The Nazis bring their own forces and tanks to the village, to crush the resistance in the area. Charlotte is then sadly informed by her contact that Gregory died after being shot down and she cries because of this news.The schoolmaster follows Charlotte and learns that Levade is hiding the children. He threatens Charlotte with reporting the boys to the Nazis unless she agrees to become his "friend". That same night, the Germans surprise Julien's group and kill them all.Soon afterward, the Germans arrive at Levade's place. They ask for his papers and interview him about his Jewish heritage.Julien returns and says that him and his dad has Jewish heritage his dad understands that he's trying to protect the boys. They take Levade to the prison camp/transfer station, where people are being gathered for