Code Name Verity Analysis

We'll admit we went a bit broad in our description of setting here, but that's because the narrators give us so many settings to work with. Worry not, though—we'll take it in parts.Part 1, which...

As we do elsewhere in this learning guide, we're going to take this one in parts because the narrator changes between Part 1 and Part 2.In Part 1, Julie is telling two stories, both from the first...

Code Name Verity is a young adult historical fiction novel set during World War II. We know it's historical fiction and war drama because it deals with themes and issues that come up in war, all wi...

It's probably going too far to call Code Name Verity a funny book, but what's unique about it is that the author has managed to create a character, Julie, who maintains a sense of humor in the midd...

This is something both Julie's and Maddie's narratives have in common. Whatever comes into the narrators' heads goes down on the page, which they both admit is maybe not a great idea when your head...

Code Name Verity refers to Julie Beaufort-Stuart's code name, Verity. We know—that's pretty obvious. However, why might the author have decided that Julie's code name is important enough to get t...

"Passive resisters must understand that they are as important as saboteurs."—SOE Secret Operations Manual, "Methods of Passive Resistance"SOE stands for Secret Operations Executive, a British int...

The very end of Code Name Verity is a letter from Julie's mother to Maddie. Structurally, it mirrors the letter at the end of Part 1, which is from SS-Sturmbannführer Nikolaus Ferber calling for J...

Like many books where a character serves as the narrator by writing the story down or recording it on 8-track tapes or texting it to a friend, Code Name Verity often veers into stream-of-consciousn...

Nazi-Occupied France: Not a Nice Place to Visit, and We Definitely Wouldn't Want to Live ThereAs the novel opens, Julie Beaufort-Stuart, a British spy, has been captured and interrogated by the Naz...

Who knew the ballpoint pen had such an embattled history? Check out inventor László Bíró's story. (Source.) Ormaie is not a real place, but it is based on the French city of Poitiers. (Source.)...

Nothing steamy happens in Code Name Verity, but it gets a PG rating mostly for the totally wrong stuff, like the Gestapo cook's giving Julie recipe cards to write on in exchange for letting him gro...