Evans’s O-level German teacher claims to hail from the Technical College, but the Governor never conducts a background check on him. In actuality, the German teacher is one of Evans’s many “friends,” or accomplices, who help him break out of Oxford Prison. The story implies that the German teacher may be the same person as the Assistant Secretary with “a special responsibility for modern languages” at the Examination Board, but McLeery’s flawless German accent hints that he might be the German teacher instead. Evans was the only student in the German teacher’s six-month course, suggesting that the two had plenty of time to construct Evans’s intricate escape plan.
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The German Teacher Character Timeline in Evans Tries an O-Level
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Evans Tries an O-Level
...if Evans is especially talented at German, but he was the only student in the German teacher ’s class, so he’s basically had a private tutor for the past six months.
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...early June, Evans attends his final night class in German before his big exam. His German teacher wishes him good luck in a thick German accent, and Evans awkwardly asks him to...
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...visitors or letters. Evans breezily replies that he has “a lot of friends,” including his German teacher . The Governor is incredulous, declaring that the German teacher was from the Technical College....
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