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Summer of My German Soldier
In the book Summer of My German Soldier, the main character Patty is sent to The Jasper E. Conrad Arkansas Reformatory for Girls. Mavis McCall is Patty's roommate there. Patty describes Mavis as...
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Summer of My German Soldier
In the story, Ruth is characterized as Patty's life raft. To Patty, Ruth (the family housekeeper) represents love, loyalty, and courage. She is the one constant in Patty's life. Ruth is also the...
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In the book, Anton is handsome, charming, courageous, kind, and humble. He treats Patty with great kindness and old-world courtesy. When Patty presents a shirt to her father as a Father's Day gift,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
When she talks to Anton in her father's shop, Patty privately thinks that Anton is too nice to be a Nazi. She also finds herself thinking Anton is a very handsome man. As they laugh and converse,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Charlene tells Patty's grandparents that Patty will not be charged with treason, but she will likely be sent to reform school. Her words prove prescient, because Patty is sent to the Jasper E....
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Summer of My German Soldier
In Bette Greene’s novel Summer of My German Soldier, the story of the relationship between an innocent 12-year-old Jewish girl and the escaped German prisoner-of-war she hides, Patty is a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
In the story, Patty lies about what Anton Reiker bought because she wants to protect him. When the FBI agents question her, she tells them that the only things Anton bought were a 'sharpener,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
In the story, Anton compares Patty's father to Adolph Hitler after he witnesses Patty's beating at her father's hands. In discussing Harry Bergen, Patty's father, Anton theorizes that a 'man who is...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene is a narrative of an adolescent Jewish girl, Patty Bergen, who is growing up in Arkansas. It was first published in 1973 and adapted for television in...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty trusts Ruth because Ruth both understands and supports the lonely Patty. There is a camaraderie between them that is borne of shared struggles and trials. Ruth is African American and is a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty's plan is to leave with Anton. She makes her decision after her abusive father verbally lashes out at her during dinner one evening. Patty concludes that she isn't even sure whether her...
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Summer of My German Soldier
The novel Summer Of My German Soldier deals heavily in the ideas of race, ethnicity, belonging, and loving the inside of a person, not their outer appearance. To that degree, a really good thesis...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier traces the lives of Patty, a Jewish girl from Arkansas and Anton, a former German soldier who escapes from a US prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The unlikely...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Prejudice is a significant theme in Summer of My German Soldier. It is displayed in a variety of contexts. One way it can be seen is through the lens of race. Racial prejudice is important to...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Although Patty is rich and Freddy is poor, both are outcasts because Patty is Jewish. Patty is Jewish, which can make her somewhat of an outcast in the community. She is also an outcast in her own...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Anton's last purchase was a gaudy pin, round and covered in fake diamonds. It cost Anton $1.00, and Patty thought it looked like nothing Anton would ever buy. She already felt that she knew him...
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Summer of My German Soldier
At first, Patty noticed Anton because he spoke very clean English, and he did not sound German at all. He spoke like an Englishman. But she continued to watch him because he did not remain with...
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Summer of My German Soldier
German prisoners of war arrive in the town of Jenkinsville, Arkansas, the home of the Jewish teenager, Patty Bergen, and her family. Patty meets one of the prisoners, English-speaking Frederick...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Here is what Patty has to say on the matter: “The whole thing is, and I thought about it quite a lot, it’s not true what they said about me. In court they called me a person of no...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Aside from the obvious prejudice that exists between the residents of Jenkinsville, Arkansas and the German prisoners of war who are interned there, Patty Bergen and her family are subject to...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Esmeralda was a one-eyed cat, that, when a tornado ripped the roof off of the McDonald's dairy barn, was the only animal who was not harmed in any way. She remained intact. Patty sees herself as...
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Summer of My German Soldier
I think that one of the strongest virtues that is brought out in Greene's work is the idea of tolerance. The setting of Jenkinsville is an arena that is fraught with intolerance of all kinds....
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Summer of My German Soldier
George C. Henkins is the president of the Jenkinsville (Arkansas) Rotary Club in Bette Green's teen novel Summer of My German Soldier. Henkins is a minor character in the novel, making only several...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Like many Southerners of the period, many of the citizens of Jenkinsville held racist views about the only Asian family in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Lee owned The Chu Lee Grocery Co., and they...
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Summer of My German Soldier
I think that the most elemental statement of irony in the novel is how the town persecutes Anton because he is a Nazi. This is because Nazism is shown to be associated with racism, discrimination,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
I think that this becomes one of Patty's central recognitions in the story. Patty understands that the town is insensitive to those who are different in a variety of contexts. The first one is...
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Summer of My German Soldier
I think that there are some ironies in the book outside of the most evident one of a Jewish girl in love with a Nazi. The fact that Patty's parents, especially her father, displays nothing but...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier is told from the immature point of view of Patty Bergen, the narrator and protagonist of the story. Patty is only twelve years old, but her desire to grow...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty Bergen's hometown of Jenkinsville, Arkansas was chosen as the site of a German prisoner of war camp toward the end of World War II. Most of the citizens weren't too happy about it, since the...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Needless to say, the Arkansas Reformatory for Girls in Bolton, Arkansas was not the same as any other three-story brick building. First of all, Patty was not there voluntarily; she had to serve a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene's 1973 novel, Summer of My German Soldier, can best be described as adolescent or young adult fiction. It features 12 year-old Patty Bergen as the protagonist and narrator, and the...
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Summer of My German Soldier
As the narrator of Bette Greene's novel, Summer of My German Soldier, Patty Bergen suffers several forms of abuse at the hands of her angry father. Harry Bergen is one unhappy man, full of...
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Summer of My German Soldier
This is something that would be easier for you to do yourself. Mostly, this is because we have no idea what sorts of words are hard for you and what are not. We don't know what grade you are in...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Mr. Chu Lee was one of the minor characters in Bette Greene's novel Summer of My German Soldier. A Chinese immigrant, Lee and his wife were the owners of The Chu Lee Grocery Co. in Jenkinsville,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
On page 27 in my bok The girl is talking about her grandmother's cooking. She explained that it is better than the cooking at her house. She uses the following simile to describe the her...
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Summer of My German Soldier
I assume that you are talking about the part where Patty's mom wants her to go to Mrs. Reeves' place to get her hair done. In that part of the book, Patty doesn't want to go to Mrs. Reeves' place...
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Summer of My German Soldier
When Patty Bergen hears that German prisoners of war are arriving in Jenkinsville to be housed there, she heads to her father's department store. While there, a group of soldiers arrive to purchase...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty looks at the relationships in her life and tallies up her losses and gains. Interestingly, she looks at her father, and concludes that her situation with him adds up to a gain, although a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Ruth, the Negro housekeeper in Summer of My German Soldier, understands her place in Arkansas society of the 1940s. She knows that black people--and particularly black women--are supposed to show...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene's 1973 novel, The Summer of My German Soldier, tells the story of a group of German prisoners of war who arrive at their new POW camp in Jenkinsville, Arkansas in 1944 or 1945. Patty...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene is a fictional story, however, several aspects of the story do mirror the author's life. Bette Greene, just like Patty, was a Jewish girl growing up in a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Anton Reiker, the POW in Bette Green's Summer of My German Soldier, shows an independent streak throughout most of the story. The son of a German college professor, Anton speaks fluent English. He...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Patty had bought a shirt for her father for Father's Day, and she had subsequently given it to Anton. Anton had been wearing it when he was shot and killed by authorities, and the shirt was traced...
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Summer of My German Soldier
There are several conflicts that arise surrounding Patty Bergen in Bette Greene's teen novel Summer of My German Soldier. The main one arises over her decision to hide the escaped German POW, Anton...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Anton and Ruth feel it is time for Anton to leave his hiding place because it is becoming too dangerous for him to stay. Patty doesn't agree because she loves Anton, and cannot bear the thought of...
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Summer of My German Soldier
As a Jew, Patty's lawyer, Mr. Kishner, feels that by having put herself in a situation where her own loyalty to the country is called into question, Patty has embarrassed Jews everywhere. Because...
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Summer of My German Soldier
cann some1 plez answer this frekin question!
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Summer of My German Soldier
Minor characters in the story who have a big impact on the book include Patty's parents, Harry and Pearl Bergen, her little sister Sharon, and her maternal grandmother, Grandma Fried. Harry Bergen...
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Summer of My German Soldier
The townspeople essentially run Mr. Lee out of town, harassing him and making him a victim of a hate crime. Someone throws a heavy object, most likely a rock or a brick, through the plate-glass...
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Summer of My German Soldier
"Ich spreche etwas Deutsch", oder "Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch" German is may native language!
