Bravery In Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Maharashtra

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To be Brave
Bravery in Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity. World War 2 was considered the most devastating war of all time. There was an immense amount of struggle. Regular people had to make changes that would affect their families as well as their friends. Bravery is being courageous without even knowing it. In Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity, Maddie a normal girl with a passion for flying planes shows that there is no job a woman can't do. She shows courage by proving that she can do a man's job just as well as a man if not better. She puts her life and others every time she flies, she knows that she could die at any time and it doesn't stop her.
Maddie is prepared to die for what she loves. On numerous occasions, Maddie finds herself in life threatening situations and she knows it. But each time she lands …show more content…

She can overcome any of her fears by believing in herself. In most novels, there's this perspective of mortality and happy endings but in Code Name, Verity mortality is a joke it's a real picture of the death and hardships people faced every day during world war 2. The novel gives an idea of truth and how what might be true for Maddie is false for Julia. It gives the reader an idea how to deal with the concept of truth. The book is a scary story in a sense because the situations Maddie encounters are real and were things that soldiers faced regularly and that's a scary thought in itself. To me, the story isn't about the tale of two girls surviving the war. Now without all the information about warfare, there wouldn't be much of a story. But it's a story of how to girls become best friends in the most challenging and difficult times of their lives. That no matter the struggle people can always persevere and overcome their fears by being noble and or

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