Idea and character plan

essay plan - TWTWB - challenge

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Themes - Events and Characters involved

Love

· Kevin and Corrie – Corrie is shot and Kevin takes her to the hospital

· Ellie and Lee – talk to each other about feelings

· Ellie and Homer have brotherly/sisterly love

· Homer and Fi accept each other despite extreme differences




Survival

· When Lee is shot and the others go into rescue him (more is better than less)

· Ellie said she can only trust in her instincts, doing the right thing and having faith

· Homer’s tactical thinking – change their thinking to survive

· Blowing up soldiers to get away from them

· The whole group learns how to ration food, be stealthy, be like soldiers, “be like a guerrilla outfit”

· Mr Clement doesn’t want to associate with them in order to stay ‘safe’

· collected ferrets and supplies to take back to Hell

· Robyn and others went to gather more intel




Leadership
· friends look to Ellie to tell them what to do in the lawn mower incident (chapter 7)

· when Homer shuts everyone up by breaking the cup when they are shouting

· Homer tells everyone what to do and tells them to put themselves in to a soldier’s shoes



Courage
· the four steps taken by Ellie, Kevin and Corrie by the showground

· Robyn doing the stitches and needles despite being afraid

· When Ellie drove the oil truck and Fi went first to look ahead

· Ellie driving the bucket truck to save Lee




Friendship
· Robyn carried Lee when he was shot

· When the are all having banter around the fire in Hell

· When Ellie gets annoyed at Chris for sleeping

· Ellie and Homer being close since childhood, holds hands when biking back (support)

· Ellie and Corrie – childhood friends and how they have changed




Team work

· between Ellie and Fi when Ellie is driving and Fi is on lookout

· Team collecting resources and info – split up

· Robyn, Ellie and Homer thinking up a plan to save Lee

· Blowing up the bridge – the different jobs – Ellie (truck), Fi (lookout), Lee (camera flash), Homer (release cattle and hiss)




Horrors of War

· Ellie killing people and feeling guilty

· guilt – stayed with her – dreams, cold, had a break down (she slept for three days)

· When the soldiers bombed Corrie’s house – Corrie had break down, the house was gone, her entire life gone in an instant

· looting

Helicopter and Corrie

Paragraphs to explain quotes

Begin and End chap. notes

describe and explain paragraph 11(4)

Describe an important character.
Explain how the character changes throughout the text.

An important character in Tomorrow, When the War Began, by John Marsden is Ellie. Ellie and her friends go on a trip and return home to find that a foreign group of people have invaded their country. Throughout the story Ellie and her friends find ways to survive. Ellie changes from an innocent teenager to someone who took people’s lives. She also changes from someone who is sure of herself to questioning if she is a good person or not.

Ellie is a rural teenager. She is innocent of life and has never really faced danger. Ellie is caring, a leader and smart. She is also able to think on her feet. For example when Ellie and her two friends were hiding in someone’s garden to get away from the soldiers who were shooting them with guns, Ellie blows up the lawn mower to slow down the attack. This shows Ellie was able to think quickly and react to the danger. Even though she panicked she was able to think through it and save her friends lives. This helps us understand that Ellie is an important character.

Class paragraph: Explain:
Ellie changes throughout the text from an innocent teenager to someone who takes people’s lives. At the start Ellie is just a normal teenager who describes herself as “plain old Ellie, nothing special” about her. During the novel she becomes more mature and does things to survive. She even says she has “just killed three people”. Later in the story she also blows up a bridge and accepts responsibility for her actions. This shows that Ellie has changed because she is able to accept what she has done. A normal teenager would not accept killing three people, however Ellie is forced to be more mature due to the war. If she did not accept what she had done, she would not survive and be able to help her friends. This helps us to understand that war changes people and changing from ‘normal’ to more mature helps people to survive. This helps us to see how Ellie changes throughout the novel.

Miss Allaker's paragraph: Explain:

Ellie also changes from someone who is sure of herself to questioning if she is a good person or not. At the start of the novel she is confident in her abilities and feels she knows who she is. She talks about herself as being ‘normal’ and she knows the difference between right and wrong. When she speaks about the Hermit who lived in Hell a long time ago killing his family she speaks about his actions being wrong until she found out he killed to save the from being burnt alive in a fire. After she kills the three soldiers during an attack, she no longer knows who she is. She has killed and “just as the Hermit couldn’t tell whether his actions were good or bad, so too I couldn’t tell what mine were.” This shows us that Ellie has changed from someone confident to someone who no longer knows if they are a “criminal” or a “hero”. She is no longer able to tell right from wrong and is conflicted about her actions. She was sure of herself at the start of the novel but by the end she isn’t so sure what she is. This helps us to understand that traumatic events can force us to change our beliefs. We are forced to face uncomfortable realities about ourselves when faced with difficult situations like Ellie was in killing people to save her friends. Ellie’s change from someone who is confident to conflicted helps us to understand this.

Intro and paragraph one Describe

Describe an important character.

Explain how the character changes throughout the text.

In the novel Tomorrow, When the War Began written by John Marsden an important character who changes is Ellie. Seven teenagers go on a camping trip to Hell and when they come back they realise their country has been invaded by foreign forces. They learn how to adapt to their surroundings and fight to survive. Ellie changes from an innocent teenager to someone who took the lives of other people. Ellie also changes from someone who is sure of herself to questioning if she is good or bad.

An important character is Ellie. She is the narrator of the story, and a caring leader. She is also conflicted with her feelings. For example she doesn’t know if she likes Lee or Homer and she can’t decide. She also doesn’t know if she is a good person or not after she blew up the soldiers in order to protect her friends from being shot. This shows she is conflicted because she is like two different people. She doesn’t know her own thoughts and they always change from one to the other. This makes Ellie an important character.

Changes in a character plan Ellie

Stages in bokk

War

Beginning and End - Character development

Hell as a setting

character quote hunt

Ellie

Lee

Robyn

Fi

 Corrie

Chris

 Homer

Kevin

Ebook Tomorrow, When the War Began

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