Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity

by

Elizabeth Wein

The French Girl/Marie Character Analysis

The French girl is another prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo headquarters. She detests Julie for being a collaborator. Julie eventually snaps and, after listening to the Nazis torture the French girl for hours, shouts for the girl to lie and tell their captors anything. This results in the Nazis making Julie watch as they behead the girl. Before the girl is led to the guillotine, Julie shares her own real name. The girl shares her name, Marie, just before she dies. Later, it’s revealed that Marie was an older classmate of Amélie’s.

The French Girl/Marie Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by The French Girl/Marie or refer to The French Girl/Marie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Section 13 Quotes

Because that’s what it’s like, schoolmates being guillotined as spies. I didn’t understand before—really didn’t understand. Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. I haven’t words for it. Every fresh broken horror is something I just didn’t understand until I came here.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Amélie/La Cadette, The French Girl/Marie
Page Number: 265
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The French Girl/Marie Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by The French Girl/Marie or refer to The French Girl/Marie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Friendship Theme Icon
).
Part 2, Section 13 Quotes

Because that’s what it’s like, schoolmates being guillotined as spies. I didn’t understand before—really didn’t understand. Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. I haven’t words for it. Every fresh broken horror is something I just didn’t understand until I came here.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Amélie/La Cadette, The French Girl/Marie
Page Number: 265
Explanation and Analysis: