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Violette's words at the end still confuse me.

posted 16 years ago by uruseiranma
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When they are talking, she mentions the following:

That's how I found out about Charles Brown. Not knowing how upset Uncle would be, I wrote Monsieur Brown the letter, inviting him to stay with us, during his trip to France.

Marcie then replies: You never answered, Chuck. You never even answered.

My question is-what are they talking about?

Was their a previous letter that was sent before Charlie Brown got the one at the beginning? Also, how did Violette know that Charlie Brown would be going to Le Huron, and of all things, attending the school down the way as an exchange student?

For that matter, if the letter Charlie did receive at the beginning was the letter in question, wouldn't it have arrived after he did if he did respond to it on the day he left?

Or maybe, if there was a previous letter before the one at the beginning of the film, wouldn't the Baron have intercepted it so that it didn't reach Charlie?

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[–] novastar_6 16 years ago

The whole exchange thing was a coincidence that fit in perfectly with Violette's invitation, at least that's the way I see it.

[–] dioro 16 years ago

I see it as the French kids went to Charlie Brown's school first and then some students from Charlie Brown's school would be returning. So the girl wrote to Charlie Brown (and maybe Linus too) inviting them to France under the guise of being exchange students.

[–] In_Correct 9 years ago

Old post, but whoever has this question should rewatch that scene because she does explain.

When Charlie Brown's fat her (or grand fat her) was in The War, he was in France for some time. This is when Violette's grandmother (or somebody) met him and they fell in love for a while. But thne he returned to U.S.A. and they wrote each other. Eventually they got married (not to each other) and so they stopped writing letters to each other. These are the letters Violette was talking about. Violette only wrote ONE letter from Violette to Charlie Brown. She accidentally wrote it in french.

Years (or decades) later, Charlie Brown's Fat Her, a barber, just so happened to cut the hair of some relatives of Violette, who were visiting U.S.A.. She learned about The Browns during that moment.

She learned that her town offered a small foreing exchange student program. Four students from her school would foreign exchange to U.S.A. while four from U.S.A. would go to France. She took advantage of this perfect timing to write to Charlie Brown. ... in french, which he could not understand despite being chosen as an exchange student.

Marcie saying "you never even answered her." was a surprise. It is something I would expect Peppermant Patty to say, not Marcie. Pepperimtn Patty always tried to shame othe r people. Charlie Brown does not meed to feel guilty be cause Charile Brown could not even read the letter Violette sent him!

From this point I am guessing:

Violette did not know how badly xenophobic Mr. Baron (her uncle) was. But he HAD to have agreed at some point because the school would meed permission slips from him, not Violette.

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