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Essay Question #14: How does Wein make Julie's love for the Great Game…

- - - - Through the circumstances of captivity in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ, Julie and Engel and brought into contact. Julie's fighting spirit and conviction for a greater cause earns Engel's sympathy, which leads to her collaborating with the Resistance against the Nazis.
        
        Julie hid details and clues for the Resistance to complete her mission and sabotage the Gestapo and Engel helped to highlight them for Maddie to interpret later on.
    - - "I'm looking for verity." (p. 172)
        
        They were able to intuit each other and communicate through military code in a matter of minutes after meeting each other. This allows Julie to give Penn information about the prison, and tell her that Engel could be a potential ally. Both these things were vital in eventually allowing the Resistance to blow up the Gestapo headquarters.
  - - - Word choice connotes heroism and courage when referring to SOE agents as "archangels", "avengers", and the "chosen few". This shows the exclusivity of the SOE organisation and implies the high calibre of the people selected and recruited to be spies. Queenie was vain and enjoyed the attention of being considered to be especially strong and intelligent to be recruited.
  - - - From a text that encourages the Resistance movement; a political statement from von Linden which hints that he might sympathise with her.
    - - Metaphor of Peter Pan to liken war to a children's game.
      - "Von Linden resembles Captain Hook... and I am quite Pan-like..." (p. 5)
- - - - Julie's identities as Queenie (wireless operator), Verity (SOE agent), and Eva Seiler (interrogator)
      - Revelation of connection between Julie (1st pov) and Queenie (3rd pov), done deliberately to foreshadow future instances of deception.
        
        "But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel... Do you not recognise her in these pages?" (p. 76)
- - - - Julie gets into trouble because of her persistence. She simply lacks the maturity to know when to give up. However, it also benefits her, allowing her to continue battling even after she is defeated.
      - Please God. Oh why am I so coarse and thoughtless? Whatever it is now, I dread not being able to finish almost more than I dire (1.25.XI.43.47)
        
        Unfinished sentences give us the shivers because we wonder what interrupted them. Julie is particularly driven to get this confession out of the way since she doesn't want to do something which is unquestionably fairly awful.