[
 {"chunk": 473, "story": 10, "summary": "Writing away from his noisy barracks, Keefe announces he will join the free language class, reasoning that those who speak the language abroad will have the advantage.", "predicament": "A newcomer signs up for a free course, convinced it will set him above the people around him who did not bother."},
 {"chunk": 474, "story": 10, "summary": "He fantasises about being the indispensable interpreter between generals once he is an officer; a joker says he had better learn English too, and he snaps back.", "predicament": "Someone takes up a new skill already imagining the powerful will depend on him, and a mocking colleague deflates the dream."},
 {"chunk": 475, "story": 10, "summary": "He looks forward to his family's visit; when they come, a soldier tells his wife he is off polishing the general's shoes, which infuriates him.", "predicament": "A man eager to impress his family on their visit is mocked to his wife by a colleague as a lowly servant."},
 {"chunk": 476, "story": 10, "summary": "His wife is struck by his uniform and his son calls him captain, which Keefe takes as a sign of promotion to come.", "predicament": "A child's innocent mistake about his father's standing is taken by the father as a sign of the promotion he deserves."},
 {"chunk": 477, "story": 10, "summary": "He proposes his wife travel home with a fellow soldier's working-class wife; Florrie snobbishly refuses and takes a different train to avoid her.", "predicament": "A husband tries to be friendly to a colleague's humble family, and his snobbish wife goes out of her way to snub them."},
 {"chunk": 478, "story": 10, "summary": "He condescends to his neighbour about his plain wife, then finds she sent a feast of home baking while Florrie brought a cheap box of melted candy.", "predicament": "A man pities a colleague for his plain wife, then sees how much more care she showed than his own glamorous one."},
 {"chunk": 479, "story": 10, "summary": "He second-guesses the pitching in his old club's championship game from the newspaper account.", "predicament": "Stuck far from his old line of work, someone second-guesses the people doing it from a distance, sure he would do better."},
 {"chunk": 480, "story": 10, "summary": "After one language lesson he opens his letter in the new tongue and claims it will be easy to learn.", "predicament": "After a single lesson, someone shows off his new learning to a friend back home and declares the whole subject easy."},
 {"chunk": 481, "story": 10, "summary": "The general praises the unit, they dig practice trenches, and a soldier, Red, passes on a tall tale from his brother on the commander's staff that they will be first to ship out.", "predicament": "Hearing praise from the top, a newcomer believes a colleague's claim of inside knowledge that his group has been chosen first."},
 {"chunk": 482, "story": 10, "summary": "Red spins outlandish rumours about their route; Shorty mocks him, and Red turns the joke back on Shorty.", "predicament": "Two jokers trade tall rumours about where the group is headed, while a credulous newcomer takes them at face value."},
 {"chunk": 483, "story": 10, "summary": "After a lecture on gas, he boasts of sacrificing his series share for his country and hints he has a secret scheme to double his pay.", "predicament": "Someone who lost a windfall by leaving his old job presents it as a noble sacrifice, and plots to make it up on the sly."},
 {"chunk": 484, "story": 10, "summary": "His scheme: allot his whole pay to Florrie so the government matches it, then have her send it back; he justifies it as his due for his sacrifice.", "predicament": "A newcomer thinks he has found a loophole to double his pay, and tells himself he deserves it more than his colleagues."},
 {"chunk": 485, "story": 10, "summary": "The captain greets him as Corporal Keefe; he credits the general's eye for his bearing and lists the qualities a leader needs, assuming he has them all.", "predicament": "Promoted one small step above his peers, a man assumes the order came from the very top because of his outstanding qualities."},
 {"chunk": 486, "story": 10, "summary": "He lists the seven men he now commands, including the joker, and compares himself to Napoleon; the pay rise is small.", "predicament": "Put in charge of a handful of former equals, a man imagines they revere him and compares himself to great leaders."},
 {"chunk": 487, "story": 10, "summary": "He says Al will have to salute him, as a joke; at grenade practice he refuses to throw hard in the rain to protect his arm for his old career, and sneers at the instructor's stiff arm.", "predicament": "Newly promoted, a man jokes that his old friend must defer to him, and holds back effort to protect his future elsewhere."},
 {"chunk": 488, "story": 10, "summary": "He tells the instructor his throwing is wrong and is told the proper motion saves the arm; he bristles, then goes to bed early to set an example; the next letter describes trench-taking drill.", "predicament": "A newcomer who considers himself an expert corrects his instructor and is corrected back, and has to swallow his pride."},
 {"chunk": 489, "story": 10, "summary": "He shouts encouragement at every charge, sure the instructors admire him; the joker mocks him as a saintly heroine, and Keefe threatens him.", "predicament": "Someone newly in charge plays the inspiring leader loudly, and a mocking subordinate needles him for putting on airs."},
 {"chunk": 490, "story": 10, "summary": "He dismisses a training film as fake; Red tells him of a reformed troublemaker who was made a corporal as a reward.", "predicament": "A newcomer hears how a former troublemaker was rewarded with a step up for turning over a new leaf."},
 {"chunk": 491, "story": 10, "summary": "The reformed man came back drunk and late from leave and was reduced to private; Red suggests some men want to be busted to escape responsibility, and flatters Keefe as a born leader.", "predicament": "Someone hears of a colleague demoted for breaking the rules, perhaps on purpose, and is flattered that he himself is a born leader."},
 {"chunk": 492, "story": 10, "summary": "Keefe concludes the man was unfit to lead and resolves to set a good example to his own squad.", "predicament": "Hearing of another's fall, a newly promoted man decides the fellow was unfit and resolves to set an example himself."},
 {"chunk": 493, "story": 10, "summary": "He quits the language class, claiming his leadership duties need his full mind and that the teacher pronounces the words wrongly.", "predicament": "Someone gives up a course after a week, claiming his duties are too important and the teacher does not know the subject."},
 {"chunk": 494, "story": 10, "summary": "He claims he has learned enough; Red spins a story that most of the ally's battle dead are corporals and sergeants, who lead every charge.", "predicament": "A newly promoted man hears a colleague claim that people in his position are the first to die when things get dangerous."},
 {"chunk": 495, "story": 10, "summary": "On a holiday he declines to play in the soldiers' ballgames, saying leaders should hold themselves aloof from their men.", "predicament": "A man one step up refuses to join his former equals at play, believing distance will make them respect him more."},
 {"chunk": 496, "story": 10, "summary": "Told his pay scheme will not work, he drops it as unfair to others and tallies how little is left after insurance and bond deductions.", "predicament": "Told his clever scheme will not work, someone drops it and claims he gave it up out of fairness to his colleagues."},
 {"chunk": 497, "story": 10, "summary": "Rifles are coming; he boasts his squad will outshoot the others, and Red tells him that in the allied army corporals go unarmed ahead of the men as decoys and make up most of the dead.", "predicament": "A newly promoted man brags about his team, and a colleague tells him his new position makes him the first target."},
 {"chunk": 498, "story": 10, "summary": "Brushing it off, he says he will take his leave this time no matter what, since they may ship out soon and he has a feeling he will not come back.", "predicament": "Rattled by talk of danger in his new role, a man insists on a visit home, sure it may be his last."},
 {"chunk": 499, "story": 10, "summary": "Red passes on a rumour, heard at third hand from a guard, that their regiment has been picked to ship out within a week.", "predicament": "Someone passes on a rumour heard third-hand that the group will soon be sent into danger, and a credulous newcomer believes it."},
 {"chunk": 500, "story": 10, "summary": "Keefe prepares to settle his affairs and writes Al a grandiose farewell, casting himself as laying down his life for those at home.", "predicament": "Believing he is about to be sent into mortal danger, a man writes a grand farewell casting himself as sacrificing all for others."},
 {"chunk": 501, "story": 10, "summary": "He praises his squad's cheerful spirit; Red slyly says they are not worried for themselves, only about what will happen to their corporal.", "predicament": "A man in charge praises his team's good cheer, while a sly subordinate hints that the danger falls on him alone."},
 {"chunk": 502, "story": 10, "summary": "Home on leave, he says he almost wishes he were a private again and toys with coming back late and drunk to get busted, claiming it is out of loyalty to his men.", "predicament": "Frightened by what his step up may cost, a man thinks of getting himself demoted and tells himself it is loyalty to his team."},
 {"chunk": 503, "story": 10, "summary": "On the train Shorty tells him the real news is that only corporals and sergeants are being sent abroad, to replace the ally's dead.", "predicament": "A joker tells a newly promoted man that everyone of his standing, and only them, is about to be sent into danger."},
 {"chunk": 504, "story": 10, "summary": "Shorty embroiders it with tales of prisoners tortured toe by toe and starved; Keefe declares he would never talk.", "predicament": "A colleague piles on grisly tales of what happens to people in his position, and a frightened man insists he would be brave."},
 {"chunk": 505, "story": 10, "summary": "Sleepless, Keefe skips taking his wife out and wishes he could shed his rank; next, he reports being called up for returning late from leave.", "predicament": "Sleepless with dread, a man wishes he could shed his promotion, then gets in trouble for coming back late."},
 {"chunk": 506, "story": 10, "summary": "The captain threatens severe penalties but excuses him because he needs good corporals, stops his leave for a month, and says nobody is going abroad soon; the corporal story was a hoax.", "predicament": "Called before his superior for a lapse, a man is let off because he is needed, and learns the danger he feared was a hoax."}
]