Tomorrow When The War Began Character Analysis

In John Marsden’s novel Tomorrow, When the War Began the group is faced with a war that brings out the good and bad qualities in the group. During the novel the group adapt to living in a war zone. The war brings out some bad qualities, which causes the group to consider revenge, but it also brings out some of the good qualities such as leadership and courage.

War isn’t about being nice or about having a good time. The group starts to realise that they aren’t going to win this war without doing something about it; this is why they consider revenge to get back what’s rightfully theirs. There are situations when the group considers plans that may cause people to lose their lives but as they start to realise that happens in a war and that they …show more content…
The rest of the group may already think Ellie is already the leader but Ellie doesn’t like to think that everything that goes wrong is her fault and she gets the blame. She also doesn’t like the fact that the group expects her to have a plan for everything, but that’s where Homer comes in. At the start of the war Ellie starts to struggle to keep up with everything, Homer notices and steps in to think ‘strictly logical.’ After Homer starts to step in and help Ellie, she regains her conference and starts to lead again but with Homer by her side. At one point in the novel, the group are coming up with plans and some of the ideas are just wrong, but that’s were Homer’s new leadership comes in when he says ‘We have to start acting like soldiers, one mistake and it’s all over.” That helps the group to realise that one mistake, no matter how big or small, could ruin their chances of surviving and winning the war. Ellie starts to recognise this new Homer and she thins that ‘if [they] ever did go back to school [she’d] nominate him for School Captain.’ An example of Ellie coming back to her normal self and becoming a leader again is at the end of the novel when it’s time for them to fight back and Ellie is sick of not doing something so she says ‘It’s time to go to war.” Therefore, …show more content…
For example, at the start of the novel Ellie, Corrie and Kevin have been spotted by some soldiers and are being shot at, they run away and hide but soldiers follow them to where they are hiding. Ellie thinks of a plan that could risk lives which was to blow up a ride-on mower. They went with the plan and blew it up and killed three soldiers when it blew up. Even though ‘[Ellie’s] brain was operating like [her] lungs, in great gasping bursts’, Ellie manages to think of a successful plan. Another key example of when the group shows courage is when they blow up the bridge. That plan was also a life or death situation as one wrong move, and they are all dead. It took a lot of courage for Ellie and Fi to steal the truck and drive it to the bridge were the rest of the group were waiting for them to arrive so they could blow it up. It took all of what they had in themselves to go along with the plan as some people weren’t to exited on it as appose to others. Mainly Robyn, it took a lot in Robyn to not think about her religion and to help the group in the plan, at that point ‘[Robyn’s] still not sure what’s right or wrong in this whole step-up’, ‘But [Robyn] [doesn’t] think [she] could sit around for months, not doing anything’. After explaining her opinion of the whole idea she goes alone with the group. It was