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The young German teacher is a young Ethiopian woman who volunteers to teach German classes at the nursing home where the refugees are initially housed. Richard finds her quite beautiful and fantasizes about her. She and Richard have a few emotional moments in which they lament the intense hardships the refugees face. She stops teaching after the classes move from the shelter to a local community college, and Richard loses touch with her.
The Young German Teacher Quotes in Go, Went, Gone
The Go, Went, Gone quotes below are all either spoken by The Young German Teacher or refer to The Young German Teacher. 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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Chapter 16 Quotes
To understand what a person means or says, it’s basically necessary to already know what that person means or is saying. So is every successful dialogue just an act of recognition? And is understanding not a path, but a condition?
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Chapter 25 Quotes
Listen, he says, I’ve done things like that too — perfectly normal sentences come out sounding completely different here.
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The Young German Teacher Character Timeline in Go, Went, Gone
The timeline below shows where the character The Young German Teacher appears in Go, Went, Gone. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 16
...do every Monday and Thursday. Richard asks permission to attend the class, and the teacher—a young Ethiopian woman who speaks impeccable German—agrees. Richard sits down at a desk and looks around the room....
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After the class ends, Richard approaches the instructor and compliments her teaching. Inwardly, he notes how beautiful she is, too. The teacher tells...
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Chapter 22
Richard attends German class at the nursing home the next day, and the beautiful young teacher asks him to consider teaching the more advanced students. The day after, he walks down...
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Richard returns his focus to the young teacher . He asks if she knows when the men are moving, and she says it...
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Chapter 25
Richard goes to the next German class and instructs the more advanced students while the young German teacher helps the illiterate students. Later, the young German teacher reviews the material from last week:...
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It’s just Richard and the young German teacher in the room now, and she apologizes for the thing with Rufu. Richard tells her...
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