10Sp English: Tomorrow when the war began chapter 5-8

1)What does Corrie’s choice in career say about her character?
That she's active getting to one place to another.

2)What is the first sign that something is wrong at Ellie’s house?
That nobody was there and that they couldn't find a note from her parents that they have gone somewhere like the

3)Do you think the way the teenagers reacted to the realisation that Australia may have been invaded or at war was realistic? Why/why not

Yes because once they started to get worried about why their parents weren't there they started to think that something big was going on and that they didn't know what was happening.

4)What possible reasons exist that could spark war or invasion of Australia?

Having a bad leader/minister to lead the country and have people betraying the country by asking another country to come over and invade it.

5)Which people in the group are starting to stand out as leaders, is this surprising? Why/why not?
Homer, Fi, Kevin, Corrie these people in the group stand out because ever since the day of how the war started they now became more included with everyone in the group because different people have their way of showing there selfs.

6)How is Ellie’s image of Kevin changing in chapter 7 from chapter 3?

That now he's starting to take everything seriously now, and now he's nicer and stronger than before.

7)Why does the idea of a female soldier surprise Ellie?
Because she's never seen a female soldier in the army before or maybe because there's something about the female soldier that she might remember that she could be her friend or sister.

8Ellie and Kevin’s quick-thinking allowed them to turn a ride-on lawnmower into a bomb. Was this moral behaviour? Did they do the right thing, or should they have surrendered themselves?
Yes, they did the right thing because if they surrendered to them they would be in the same place as everyone else that's in the showground (where everyone is held in).

9)Homer says, “This is war now, normal rules don’t apply. They’re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us”” What does this say about his character? What do you think of the validity of his opinions?

That he's more a leader that wants to let everyone know that he's in charge of everything and what goes on in the following events.

10)What pieces of evidence from the book inform the reader that this invasion wasn’t entirely peaceful? Find at least 3 examples.