Chapter 15 Summary

Liz meets Ashe at a Communist Party meeting. He takes her out to tea and asks her many personal questions. Liz receives a letter from the Centre of the District Communist Party inviting her to participate in a youth exchange with Communists in East Germany. The letter offers her an all expenses paid trip to East Germany. Liz is skeptical at first. She does not think that she has done anything special enough to deserve this honor. She is not interested in a lot of the international side of the Communist Party and views it more as an interesting hobby than anything else. She does not know very much about Germany except for World War II. She trusts that the party has her best interests at heart and agrees to go.

Chapter 15 Analysis

Liz's understanding of Communism and her role in the Communist...