Tomorrow When the War Began: Ellie

The primal nature and nightmares. The gothic elements and architecture and darkness. There is a part in the book which is missing in the film, when Theodora and Eleanor are outside during the night and suddenly they start fleeing from a children’s picnic. Eleanor does not know why thery are fleeing but Eleanor follows Theo in a fearful and horror

At this point in the play, you also learn more underlying problems of all the characters; for example, Paula’s struggle with bulimia. As the play concludes, Cass and Paula develop their own feelings about Sherri Lee and gravitate towards her instead of Liz, whom they leave alone at the end.

Robin Jenkins effectively conveys loss of innocence and ant war through sophisticated symbolism in the short story “Flowers”. It tells the story of a young girl, Margaret, who was evacuated from the city of Glasgow to the highlands of Scotland in an attempt to avoid the inhumanity of war, but it is in the highlands where she truly witnessed the brutality of war.

“Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden, is a novel of survival, friendship, love and war. He uses many language techniques (e.g. simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, irony, symbol, allusion etc.) to get across to the reader the importance of each of the themes discussed. He also uses these techniques to set the mood in each chapter and to help emphasise each major point in the novel. “We’ve learnt a lot and had to figure out what’s important- what matters, what really matters.”- Ellie

The characters in the novel Tomorrow When the War Began (TWTWB) (1993) begin as very human, very believable and, very ordinary. Then their lives are changed in an instant and they are forced to respond, to change, to grow and to adapt.. The characterisation is so well done that Ellie, Robyn, Fi, Homer, Chris, Corrie, Kevin and Lee become real to the reader, and you find yourself relating to them as you would actual people. Author John Marsden creates characters based on Australia’s unique multicultural society in TWTWB. The novel is based on an Australian town where John Marsden uses stereotypes as the main characters. They start out as fairly stereotypical examples of teenagers, but they undergo a character metamorphosis as the story progresses. Characters such as Homer, first introduced as a very stereotypical law-breaking teenager often seen in todays society, undergoes a transformation into a strong leader as the story develops.

It is a well known fact that experiencing war changes people; there is an innocence that is forever lost. In Tim O’Brian’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne Bell is an unusual example of the innocence that is lost in war because unlike the rest of the soldiers, she is a woman. Mary Anne’s transformation from innocent “sweetheart” to fierce warrior left readers with mixed emotions because although Mary Anne felt at peace with her transformation, she was also disconnected from reality.

In the novel “Tomorrow When the War Began” written by John Marsden, one important idea that was developed throughout the written text was how life events change people. People develop the most during their teenage years which is when they are affected the most during their life.Major life events change people and teenagers need to understand this. In this novel, seven teenagers go camping and when they emerge from the bush there are fires everywhere, the power is out and the animals are dead. The small town of Wirrawee has been invaded by the army. The idea of how life events can change people is shown through the technique of characters. With the events of war, Ellie showed how she grew up and lost her innocence because of the choices she

Some people adjust to their changing lives better when there is someone there beside them going through the same things. This is what happened for Taylor and Lou Ann. Taylor moved in with Lou Ann when she came to Arizona and they begin to change each others life for the better. Taylor teaches Lou Ann about confidence, and standing up for herself. Lou Ann teaches Taylor how to adjust to her new surroundings in Arizona, and together they form a bond that makes their changing lives easier to tolerate.

One main theme of this book is how war can change people and this shows how it changed just an ordinary girl who ended up getting "dirty".

Near the beginning of the story, Ellie gets separated from his mother and sisters.What he doesn't realize after being separated, he wasn’t going to see them again. “Tzipora was holding Mother’s hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away; Mother was stroking my sister’s blonde hair, as if it were to protect her. And I walked on with my father, with the men. I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.”(Wiesel 29). You never know when the last time you are going to see

Terrorism not only happens abroad but it also happens in our backyard as well. The United States has had its government and citizens involved in terrorism as well. The American Revolution and the war tactics used against The British, can be linked to terrorism. Also, the CIA involvement on the attack of Rene Schneider, a commander of the Chilean Army as well. Though the United States has had close involvement with terrorist acts, it has also dealt with its fair share being a target. The Molly Maguires, is a terrorist organization that has been targeting America, since it was founded. This all started because of their opposition of the mistreatment of tenants by landlords(McEntire,2009). The Molly Maguires also protested coal mines and even

George, unlike the reader however, is unaware of Editha’s dishonest reasons for her support of the war and ignorantly goes off to war with the innocent belief that his girlfriend actually cares about the outcome of the war itself and not that it might potentially shape him into the man she secretly wishes he was. Howell’s use of Editha and her deceitful motives for supporting the war add a layer of realism to the story, as peoples’ motives in real life are not always pure.

There is danger lurking in the shadows of the dark mountains and it threatens to destroy what's left of her life and her heart.

ELLIE (20’s), a spirited post-graduate student, has always loved the darkness of the woods and exploring places not on any map.

An action, a statement, one instant, has the power to alter your life and for young Patricia Bergen in the young adult fiction novel, The Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene, many different conflicts she had to face caused her to think very poorly of herself. Fortunately, with the influence of one German soldier her whole mindset was revised. In the beginning of the novel , Patty Bergen portrays as an insecure, desperate, and a solitary young girl, but at the resolution of the story we see Patty as a confident, mature, and hopeful young woman who dreams of life away from the hardships she faced.