Code Name Verity
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Part 1: Ormaie 8.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 9.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 10.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 11.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 16.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 17.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 18.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 20.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 21.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 22.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 23.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 24. XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 25.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 28.XI.43 JB-S Note to Amadeus von Linden from Nikolaus Ferber Part 2, Section 1 Part 2, Section 2 Part 2, Section 3 Part 2, Section 4 Part 2, Section 5 Part 2, Section 6 Part 2, Section 7 Part 2, Section 8 Part 2, Section 9 Part 2, Section 10 Part 2, Section 11 Part 2, Section 12 Part 2, Section 13 Part 2, Section 14 Part 2, Section 15 Part 2, Section 16 Part 2, Section 17 Part 2, Section 18 Part 2, Section 19 Part 2, Section 20 Part 2, Section 21 Part 2, Section 22 Part 2, Section 23 Part 2, Section 24 Part 2, Section 25 Part 2, Section 26
Themes
All Themes Friendship War, Women, and Gender Roles The Horrors of War Resistance and Courage Storytelling
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Characters
All Characters Maddie Brodatt Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain Anna Engel Jamie Dympna Wythenshawe The Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer/John Balliol Paul Mitraillette Amélie/La Cadette SS-Scharführer Etienne Thibaut Maman Thibaut Papa Thibaut The Rose-Grower Georgia Penn The French Girl/Marie The Jamaican Rear Gunner Julie’s Mother Squadron Leader Creighton Theo The Photographer The Farmer’s Wife
Terms
All Terms Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Gestapo Lysander Nacht und Nebel (NN) Puss Moth RDF Resistance Royal Air Force (RAF) Special Duties Service Special Operations Executive (SOE) Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
Symbols
All Symbols Peter Pan Damask Roses Boots
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Code Name Verity

by

Elizabeth Wein
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Paul Character Analysis

Paul is an English SOE agent who helps lead the Damask Resistance Circuit in Ormaie, France. Maddie dislikes him from the start: she flew him in England once, and he put his hand on her thigh in a sexually suggestive way. According to Mitraillette, Paul sexually harasses all women under age 40, no matter who’s watching or what the circumstances are. But despite him being a “lech,” as one wireless operator calls him, everyone in the circuit, including Maddie, trusts Paul to keep them safe. Paul teaches Maddie to shoot guns and, when he learns that she’s a pilot and a mechanic, starts teaching her to make explosives. It’s only after the Nazis kill Paul during the attempt to rescue Julie and other prisoners that Maddie is fully willing to give Paul credit for being a smart, skilled leader and inspiring bravery and loyalty among the other Resistance members.

Paul Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Paul or refer to Paul. 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 17 Quotes

Julie was next.

Suddenly she laughed wildly and gave a shaking yell, her voice high and desperate.

“KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!”

Turned her face away from me to make it easier.

And I shot her.

I saw her body flinch—the blows knocked her head aside as though she’d been thumped in the face. Then she was gone.

Gone. One moment flying in the green sunlight, then the sky suddenly gray and dark. Out like a candle. Here, then gone.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity (speaker), Paul, Mitraillette
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War, Women, and Gender Roles Theme Icon
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
Resistance and Courage Theme Icon
Page Number: 285
Explanation and Analysis:
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Paul Quotes in Code Name Verity

The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Paul or refer to Paul. 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 17 Quotes

Julie was next.

Suddenly she laughed wildly and gave a shaking yell, her voice high and desperate.

“KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!”

Turned her face away from me to make it easier.

And I shot her.

I saw her body flinch—the blows knocked her head aside as though she’d been thumped in the face. Then she was gone.

Gone. One moment flying in the green sunlight, then the sky suddenly gray and dark. Out like a candle. Here, then gone.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity (speaker), Paul, Mitraillette
Friendship Theme Icon
War, Women, and Gender Roles Theme Icon
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
Resistance and Courage Theme Icon
Page Number: 285
Explanation and Analysis:
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