Code Name Dracula By Elizabeth Weimae Characters

Olivia Rau

Ms. Hackett

English 8

Period 4

May 22, 2014

Book Report

Book Title: Code Name Verity

Author: Elizabeth Wein

Number of Pages: 368

Genre: Historical Fiction

Point of View: Third person, First person

The point of view is third person because the girl Verity (narrator) is writing the story of what happened to Maddie while they were together. It is also first person because the narration switches to a girl named Maddie who describes what she is doing and what she sees.

Setting: The book takes place during the 1940s in Nazi occupied France. The majority of the book is told in Ormaie, France. Verity is captured by the Nazis and kept in an old hotel that has been turned into a jail for captured prisoners. There is

Although her real name is Lady Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stuart she prefers Verity. Verity is originally from Scotland. She grew up in Castle Craig. She always looks very nice and is always presentable. Here hair is always is a chignon and her nails are never without a manicure. Verity originally was in school in Switzerland where she learned to speak fluent German. Maddie her best friend who is a pilot has black hair with thick curls. It is so short that it can’t fit into a ponytail. She is one of the only girl pilots at her airbase. She has a big fear of a bomb dropping on her grandparents. She is very nervous that she will have her flying license taken away for doing something that she isn’t supposed to or for crashing her

The pilot Maddie and the passenger whose code name is Verity are best friends. Maddie sees a glimpse of hope when the family of the farm she crashed in hides her in their barn. For Verity, she has lost the game before it has even begun. She is arrested by the Gestapo or the Geheime Staatspolizei meaning secret state police in German. Being an enemy spy in France during World War two isn’t a pleasant thing. The Nazis give her an easily choice: tell them everything she knows or face a gruesome execution. Verity writes about her past, how she met Maddie and why their plane was abandoned. On each scrap of paper they can find she continues her story. Her writing reveals her insecurities and her false hope of getting home. She tells them everything she knows because she believes she is a coward and therefore acts as if she is one. Through the story she find that she must stand up for herself and that she isn’t a coward. In her writing she writes in secret about a plan that may work for a jail break. In the end Maddie finds some of the notes on the jailbreak and follows the instructions Verity has