It is hard to find that one person in the world that you can always relate too. That one friend knows your personality and perspective. In the book Code Name Verity written by Elizabeth Wein, we see a unique and very special thing of friendship. This amazing friendship we get to see is between two girls, Maddie and Julie. Because of their job and missions, they are both required to have code names throughout the book. These girls know exactly what kind of trouble they would get into if any code name was given away and most importantly, the trust they would break from their friendship. The reason why we see Maddie and Julie have such a strong friendship is because of the time spent between them and the amount of care between the two. Julie is a double agent that does life threatening missions, and Maddie is a pilot that happens to fly her. When preparing to jump out of the back of the plane, Julie says one of the most unique phrases to go out on a bang with. From the beginning to the end of the book, my understanding of the friendship, the plot, and their culture has changed dramatically based on this one quote, “Kiss me hardy!”(68).
The friendship we see between Julie and Maddie is unique in its own way. They are able express all of their past and able to talk like sisters. Throughout the book there are tiny clues to reveal the big plot twist and makes the audience engaged throughout. The biggest scene for me that changed my understanding of the book was on page 68. “Kiss me hardy.”(68) This is part of a passage that really changed my thinking and also set the tone for Julie later on in the book when seeing this quote being said between two girls I thought strongly about how close their relationship really was. Page 69 was the ...
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... is the amount of concern they have for each other, while also putting into perspective the amount of time they had known each other. We all couldn’t accept how close they were from the first hundred, two hundred, or even 284 pages. Once we had set our eyes upon page 285 we see the moment of true sacrifice and friendship that Maddie had for Julie. Maddie did not have to think twice when pulling the trigger on Julie, she knew she was going to be ending her life in a much more peaceful and humane way. My thoughts were strictly on excitement and curiosity if they would all make it out okay, but that all changed with one page.
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Bartlett, John. Famous Quotations Fourteenth Edition. Ed. Emily Morison Beck. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968: 641-644.
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