Much of the story takes place in and around a pub in a remote Scottish village that's home to an air base. For example, Ellen, who's a Traveller but currently blending in due to her RAF uniform, wonders how Louisa manages to deal with being visibly different from the locals, including a small boy who screams because he's never seen a Black person before and thinks she must be a German.
Many of the characters are on the receiving end of prejudice. Some of its characters have appeared previously in Code Name Verity and The Pearl Thief, but the story works well on its own, and its central character, 15-year-old, biracial, Jamaican-born, and newly orphaned Louisa, is an inspiration as she tries to make her way, do the right thing, and use her love of music, her fascination with flying, and her considerable brain to help the war effort and support her friends. Parents need to know that The Enigma Game is a thrilling,complex, nuanced, and ultimately uplifting story of various characters, mostly teens and mostly "outsiders" of one type or another, who find themselves thrown together in an all-out effort to stop the Nazis in the early days of World War II. Cigarette smoking by adults and teens.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. One gets so drunk he can't stand, let alone fly, causing trouble. The story begins in “Verity…’s own words, as she writes her account for her captors.Lots and lots of drinking by lots of teen airmen who may not live another day.
She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat. Two young women become unlikely best friends during World War II, until one is captured by the Gestapo. The Verity Collection: a fascinating documentary of Elizabeth’s personal collection of WW2 memorabilia Exclusive footage of Elizabeth Wein at The Shuttleworth Collection, home to some of the oldest operational aircraft in the world ‘Something Worth Doing’: the short story that inspired Code Name Verity, never before published in the UK
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