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Summer of My German Soldier
This is somewhat of a subjective question, the answer would differ depending on exactly who these people in question were. For example German nationals in the 1930s and 1940s would likely have...
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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
Patty Bergen is a troubled teen, friendless, set apart by her nationality, and put down by her parents. Her mother and father have serious issues of their own, and constantly criticize her and...
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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
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
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
Although Patty Bergen is the narrator and main character in Summer of My German Soldier, there are several other important characters in the novel. PATTY BERGEN. The narrator and protagonist of...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
The thought process about which you are asking is actually outlined in Chapter 8 instead of Chapter 7. Patty justifies the fact that she is not a spy in her own mind by reasoning that she is not...
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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 offers to hide Anton in the family's garage apartment, which she uses as her hiding place; however I was unable to find a very detailed description of it.
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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
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 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
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
Olive drab (officially called Olive Drab #3) was the color chosen by the U. S. military for uniforms and military vehicles during World War II. It is mentioned in Summer of My German Soldier when...
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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
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
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
Patty finally begins to believe that she is not a bad person at the end of Chapter 20, when Ruth comes to visit her in the Reformatory. In desperation, she asks Ruth, "What's really wrong...
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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
After Anton leaves, she treasures the ring that he gave her. When she is feeling bad, she kisses the ring to help her feel better. Then she decides that she wants to show the ring to others,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Talk in Patty's household often turns to war, even though, as her mother acknowledges, it can be quite an upsetting experience. In a fit of exasperation, she wants to know why everyone always talk...
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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
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
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
Like the main character of Summer of My German Soldier, author Bette Evensky Greene (born 1934) also grew up a lonely Jewish girl in Arkansas during World War II. Like Patty Bergen, Bette's own...
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Summer of My German Soldier
In the Southern town where Patty lives during World War II, racism is rampant. It is evident most clearly in attitudes towards the Bergens' black maid, Ruth. Ruth has a fierce sense of dignity...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Following the beating that Patty takes from her father after he catches her with Freddy Dowd, it is revealed that Anton witnessed Mr. Bergen talking to himself in the garage. Over and over he kept...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Summer of My German Soldier, a YA historical fiction novel published in 1973 by Bette Greene, explores themes of self-worth, relationships, empathy, hypocrisy, and prejudice. Patty Bergen, a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Hopefully you got to the part where Patty decided to hide Anton in her father's garage. After staying for a few days, Anton makes his escape. An investigation is begun and Patty is eventually...
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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
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
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
The residents of Jenkinsville demonstrate their bigotry through their actions and utterances, and this is clear throughout the book. They come across as racists and religious extremists. Chu Lee, a...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Mr. Lee was the victim of a hate crime! During World War II the United States was at war with Japan. The Japanese, then, were collectively looked upon as the enemy. Mr. Lee is Chinese, but...
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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
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
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
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
At the beginning of the story, Patty is a girl who is lonely and frustrated. She feels she's an outcast because of her rich, Jewish family and knows her parents view her as a failure. She feels...
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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
After Patty is arrested by the FBI on a charge of treason she's forced to run a gauntlet of hate as she's escorted by agents down Main Street. Word's got out about Patty's attempts to hide Anton,...
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Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene's teen romance/drama Summer of My German Soldier tells the story of a young Arkansas girl's first romance--with an escaped German prisoner of war hiding out in her home. When Anton...