Liam

﻿ To sum me up in one picture.... Actually no, thats a cow. How horrible you thought that I was similar to a cow...

  ** __ Bill Nugent Story __ ** __ Full House! Yelled Walt Drury slamming down his cards, a big smirk on his face. __    __ “Aha!” I yelled and his smirk disappeared. “Your bluffing.” __ __ “Three of a kind!!” I yelled.” In diamonds”! __    __ “aww that’s not fai-“ but he was cut off by Sergeant Pelton. __    __ “This is war”!!! he yelled, but his heart was not in it. “What did you think it was, a Sunday-school picnic? Take out these Germans NOW”!!! __    __ “Yes sir”... muttered Walt. __    __ “Why do we kill innocent prisoners anyway”? I asked. “There’s a POW camp a few miles "back”. __    __ “Makes us just as bad as the Germans” Sighed Walt “I don’t think I can do it” __     __ “I can’t bear to lose my job” I said “but if I could I would run”. “Will you?” __     __ “I guess so”. “I just can’t shoot an unarmed man”. “It is so un-moral I would lose my job for it”. __     __ “Wow” __ __ “Come on!” yelled Sergeant Pelton __ __ We lined up in front of the trench, full of soldiers and took aim. I shut my eyes, when suddenly I heard a sob from behind me. “Walt?” I asked “What?” He slammed his gun on the ground and ran. __    __ “Walt!” I yelled urging him on, “Walt!” __ <span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">__ “Shut up about the private and shoot!” yelled Sergeant Pelton. __    <span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">__ So, __ <span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">__ I took aim, shut my eyes, and fired... __

<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">__ “Ahhhhrrrggggg!!” screamed the soldier I was aiming at. Oh no, I thought, I missed his head! I took another shot, and that did the trick. __    <span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">__ I looked at what I had done, then ran and vomited. Why??!!! Why?!! I shouldn’t have shot... Why didn’t I run from them, maybe Walt and I could have escaped with him and started our lives again... __

I used the word un-morale!!! It doesnt exist!!! Extra marks!!!

Beowulf compressed into 100 words! <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">In the Viking land of Scandinavia, there was chaos. The troll, Grendel, was slaughtering hundreds of men. The land was peaceful before Grendel arrived, but, after he came the people lived with fear in their hearts. <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Until Beowulf. <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Beowulf was a powerful warrior, a man whose mind was set. The night Beowulf arrived, a feast was thrown in his honour. When, suddenly, Grendel crashed through the doors. Beowulf and Grendel fought all night, until the mighty Grendel was slain. When they thought the land was peaceful, Grendel’s mother attacked. Beowulf dived into her pond, and returned with her head! <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Peace!

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">How was the horror of Grendel Conveyed? <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">The horror of Grendel was conveyed using powerful, sickening poetic techniques, to give the reader an image of pure terror. Metaphors were used most, to show the darkness and extreme fear this creature caused by making the whole “world ... covered in a blanket of shadow” and initiating the “terror [that] stalked the land. Also used was intense sickening visual imagery as Beowulf killed the troll, Grendel, and when the troll massacred the Viking warriors with “blood dripping from his slavering jaws” the troll oozed horror. But, when Grendel was killed “Beowulf twisted the trolls arm... it split and cracked at the joints ... splattering blood”. Alliteration was also used frequently to show the fear the first time the men encountered the beast. “Sends shivers up my spine ...makes my scalp crawl” Similes were also used to great effect “a cry which made it feel like the Earth cracked”. When Beowulf was fighting Grendel’s mother, the water suddenly stilled and turned liquid silver” this is an example of foreshadowing. The author of this story was very skilled at using incredible poetic devices to draw the reader in for a brilliant story.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Why Do Bullies Bully? <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">I personally have no idea why a bully would bully. It is probably an obvious answer, but I honestly have no idea. There is evidence however that a bully may do it for fun, but what fund do you get out of teasing and belittling people? <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">I believe that a bully may have issues with their family, for instance parents. If a parent is forceful or mean on a frequent enough basis, the bully gets used to it, so the he decides he must do it at school to. The same could happen via a big brother of sister, as they often bully their siblings around due to authority of __age__ or __Size__*. <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Bullies may often bully because they are both bigger and stronger than their victim, or they are older. This helps the bully, as a general mental reflex (of young people) is to become weary and/or scared of their authority, and the fact that most people would listen to the most mature person for the truth, usually the eldest. <span style="font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">But still, it brings up the question, why would you bully?

Bully Story 

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“Well that not…” I muttered <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“hahahahah” laughed the ducklings friend, Steve. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“Well I bet you have had more than your rations of duck weed!” I said softly. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“Of course he has!” Exclaimed Steve. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“No! shut up Steve! I haven’t eaten too much. I’m just brilliant.” Scoffed Bruce “But that is irrelevant. You are still a cow!” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“EXCUSE ME!!!” We looked up, and there was a goose, our Flight instructor to be precise, the only non-duck in the squadron, my best friend. “Cows are dirty filthy animal that we want no relationship with.” “Now back to your nests!”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">The next day, we had flying class with Philip, the Goose. As I lifted my small pathetic excuses for wings, Bruce leapt into the air and flapped like his life depended on it, which it did. Bruce had no time for theory, so he had no idea how to sustain flight. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">I yelled out to him “don’t pitch up to high or you will stall!!” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Obviously he didn’t listen and he pitched up, then fell to the ground. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">“Why did you tell me to do that!!?”he screamed I could have died!” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">"But you didnt listen!!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Suddenly I felt a laged pain on my left wing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">"uughr" I murmured when I realised Bruce bit me. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">I started deeing duck-weed, and then....nothing.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">TWWB:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Task 8:

Homer shook the can up, and then held it at arm’s length in front of him.

“Light ‘er up” he whispered to me, as I struck the match. The gas lit, and for a second we had a miniature flamethrower, but the wind was against us, and it pushed the flames back into the can, which caught fire. Home swore, and then threw the can into a bush, where it was extinguished.

“Damn” I whispered, “we’ll have to scare them with a cattle prod now.”

“No, we have something better than that”

“What is it then?” I asked as I stumbled in a crack in the road, sending a flash of pain through my leg.

“Old trade secret” he smiled “you’ve got to hiss”

“Hiss”

“Like a snake, see?” as he crept up behind a young bull, then let go a long hiss. The bull mooed loudly, and then charged off down the bridge. “Just like I told you” said Homer, with a smug smile.

“We’re nearly ready” came a voice from the radio, Ellie I assumed, but it was hard to tell with the crackle of static.

“Good luck” Homer replied, then sighed loudly and looked at me.

“Let’s go” I whispered, and then waved to the hill behind us, where the Corrie and Kevin were waiting, ready to tell us if any patrols were nearing, but knowing the two of them, they were probably doing something else. We got a wave back, meaning we were ready to go.

Homer and I hissed at the cows and poked at them with prods, and the stamped that followed was incredible, to say the least.

“Go!” Homer yelled into the radio, and we ran back off the bridge to watch, when we heard the dreaded sound of bullets. We leant over the edge, and saw Ellie running, no; almost floating over the grassy picnic area with bullets flying all over the place, but none hit the target, thankfully. The bullets stopped as she entered the bushes, and a small flame ran across the ground, towards the petrol tanker. The soldiers, who hadn’t seen the tanker, knew something was wrong and began scrambling over the barrier, and took the plunge into the murky river.

The explosion that followed was intense, and I could feel the heat and fury on the back of my neck from a long way away, and Homer beside me collapsed, then got back on his feet and was running again.

Suddenly, we heard bullets again, and I wished Ellie was okay, when I realised they were aiming at us. We leapt onto the bikes, the four of us, and sped off, towards Ellie’s place, the rendezvous point.

“Woo!” yelled Homer, as we sped off “I should have done that years ago!”

“Guys!” Kevin yelled urgently. We looked around, and saw Kevin supporting a slumped figure on their bike, Corrie.

Kevin looked like he was about to cry as we rode along, at a slow pace as not to disturb the gaping hole in her chest.

She was alive, but only just hanging on.

That was when Kevin made his decision.

Task 4

Everyone in the group changed a lot, but Homer changed the most. At the beginning of the novel, Homer is a wild, uncontrollable person, who was seen to everybody as untrustworthy. “No one [took] Homer seriously”, but once the war began he took control, and suddenly he was “fast becoming one of the teachers he’d always despised” and was respected by everyone in the group. He made a lot of decisions, and almost all of them were acknowledged by the group, and almost all of his decisions were acted upon. He grew a lot closer to the group, people who might not have been too close to him normally. The people looked up to him as a leader; he relished the idea, and extended his knowledge and skills behind it He changed because he realised that people relied on him, and this propelled him up to being one of the most responsible leaders. The person who changed the most was Homer, becoming more mature and showing more leadership qualities throughout the novel. Homer was a genius for coming up with the idea of destroying the bridge. It was an idea capable of any male teenager, but the context of the explosion was genius. The bridge was positioned between Cobblers bay, one of the most important bays in the region, and somewhere else not mentioned in the novel that was obviously important. When the bridge was destroyed, there convoys could no longer get over the river.
 * Who changed the most **
 * 1 **** Ellie at one stage outlines what she sees as “Homer’s genius” – was Homer a ‘genius’ for coming up with the plans to ‘rescue’ Lee and to destroy the bridge? **

Ellie was a ‘good’ person, mostly due to her showing of remorse. Ellie did not kill in cold-blood, and as it was war, her killings were no criminal. She was a good person, because she showed remorse, often willing she never killed people and was simply killed instead. This means she did not want to kill, and the after effects of the killing were almost enough to send her into depression. She blamed herself for the deaths of the soldiers, and thought she had gone evil. (I had a really good quote to go here but I couldn’t remember where it was, but I will try to get it in eventually) Ellie realises that she has ended the lives of three people, and blames herself entirely; “It was hard to believe that I… had just killed three people” It was too big to “get [her] mind around” Ellie was a good person, due to the fact she didn’t want to kill people, and the thought of it “filled her with horror”.
 * 2 **** Ellie worries that she might become ‘like a war criminal’ because of the acts she’s committing. She says she uses “a sense within [her]” to determine what was “good or bad”. Was Ellie a ‘good’ person? **

Ellie lost her temper with Chris, and nearly shot him. When Chris was found asleep, Ellie lost her temper and went into a rage over it. She explained how sleeping sentries “should be shot” and how Chris put their lives in danger. He did, but not in the horrific way Ellie explained it as. Chris did not belong in the group mostly due to the fact that he was not there for the things they did before they found him, and that he smoked, and took drugs. His motto was “if it grows, smoke it” and Ellie was very worried that he might “start growing marijuana up [there]” and that was against Ellie’s morals, and most likely against the rest of the groups too. The group did not properly accept Chris, and he was never really a proper ‘member’ of the group.
 * 3 **** When Ellie finds Chris asleep on sentry duty she loses her temper with him. She understands why sleeping sentries should be ‘shot’. She becomes ‘logical, cold-blooded and merciless’. Later she says that “I guess he atoned.” Did Chris belong in the group **

**1** **What inspires Ellie with the idea to use the ride on mower as a bomb?** The reason Ellie is inspired to use the ride on mower as a bomb was the foreshadowing of Homer making petrol trails. In the early sections of the novel, Ellie remembers the time Homer scared drivers by lighting petrol trails in front of their cars, and this inspires her to use the petrol in the mower to attack the soldiers, and further inspires Homer to blow up the bridge with a petrol tanker. The idea to use the mower as a bomb came from the foreshadowing early in the book about petrol trails. **2** **What techniques does Marsden use to create tension in this scene?** John Marsden uses many techniques to create the feeling of tension in the chapter. The technique of foreshadowing is constantly used during the novel, and in this chapter. It helps the reader understand what is going on, and a vague understanding of what will happen next. Humour is used throughout the chapter to ease the tension so it can build up again. The tension is created through uses of alliteration; onomatopoeia and slowing down the reader by adding small pieces of unnecessary text so delay the action. Once the excitement is delayed, Marsden adds some humour to ease the tension, so that it can build up again, even more tense than before. Irony is used right before the lawn-mower becomes a bomb, again to slow the reader down and make the scene tenser (I don’t know if the word ‘tenser’ is right, but the computer wanted me to. L ). The soldiers are not given human characteristics, and are referenced as “shadows…with…soft, menacing feet…and…patrolling sentries”. They are only given human characteristics when Ellie strikes the match, showing the reader that yes, these are humans, and Ellie is about to end their lives. Task 6: **3** **Marsden is careful not to let the reader strongly identify with the people who die. How does he achieve this?** Marsden gives the reader the image of shadows hunting Ellie, Corrie and Kevin, not people (See above answer for more information + quotes). This causes the reader to not identify the soldiers as real people, so when Ellie kills them the reader does not condemn her for the murders (See below answer for more information). Marsden does not show the reader any real physical imagery, so we are left with the impressions of the “three patrolling sentries” as silhouettes, right until Ellie strikes the match, then they are silhouettes with faces, making them human. **4** **Why do we not condemn Ellie for the murders?** The reader does not condemn Ellie for killing the soldiers because it was a killing made in war-time, in hot blood. Ellie is the protagonist, and the reader doesn’t mind who she kills, only that she and the rest of the group stays alive. The soldiers in the chapter are dehumanised, so that when Ellie kills them, the reader does not see it as murder, so much killing an animal. Ellie tells herself that it was “them or us”, and the killing was necessary for their survival. It might have been, it might not. The reader does not know what would have happened to them if they did not turn the lawn-mower into a bomb, whether they would have been killed or not. This is where the story of Bertram Christie is relevant, as he killed people in the war, and got a medal for his ‘gallantry’, but in peace time the (maybe) merciful killing of his family when they had no medical assistance was frowned upon, and was shunned from society much like how Ellie believes she will be after killing the soldiers. The reader does not condemn Ellie for the murders because in the reader’s mind, she does not kill people, she kills animals. **5** **Why does Marsden have them pass the “Welcome To W[i]rrawee” sign in the last sentence and why does he describe them as going “like bats out of Hell.”** Marsden has them pass the ‘welcome to Wirrawee’ sign to show them leaving the ‘hell’ they had just created, going to the Hell in the mountains. The passing of the sign is ironic, as ‘welcome’ is a happy word, and is normally a cheerful greeting to travellers entering the town, but when Ellie & the group pass the sign, going to Hell, they are leaving the hell they had just created. When Marsden refers to them going “like bats out of hell” he could be referring to the song by a man called ‘Meatloaf’, but chances are he is again being <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">ironic, saying they were leaving the afore mentioned hell, and going to their home, Hell in the mountains. Apparently, bats go really quickly out of hell, so they were riding very fast, desperate to leave the hell of Wirrawee.

Task Two!

**1** **Who is the leader of the group?** There is no defined leader, as they all show leadership qualities throughout the novel (Series). The protagonist, Ellie, is the natural leader of the group due to the fact the story is from her point of view, but she is a moral leader, the (only) one who can tell the story truthfully and honestly to the point where she tells things she would much rather forget. The group sees this, and assures her she is the right option “you are the best writer, Ellie” that may be true, but they choses Ellie because her voice is ‘morally correct’, helping her to tell the story truthfully. Ellie says they chose her for the job because she is “the best writer”, but as she points out “but there is a bit more to it”, referring to her truthful moral correctness. Homer, however, is a very physical leader and leads them through most of their physical challenges. He also takes charge with decision making, especially when he tells them “[They’ve] got to make a decision” very confidently, and the entire group listens. When Ellie tells the rest of the group to “rack off!” nothing happens until Homer backs her up, showing his superiority. Robyn is a leader most of the time, just often a little less than others. She is always caring and when everyone else is celebrating, she is the one to ask Lee if“[He] [Is] okay”, and the only one really considerate of the others at all times. Kevin often shows leadership qualities under pressure, when he urged Ellie to get going with lighting the match, and forcing her to duck, and run from their makeshift bomb when Ellie was stuck watching the faces of the soldiers. There is no leader of the group, and they all take turns showing great leadership qualities. **2** **Who, in the group, shows remarkable courage?** The entire group shows some form of courage, whether it is the physical courage to investigate areas patrolled by soldiers, or to drive a truck while being shot at, being in the bucket of the truck or driving Corrie to the hospital knowing they will be captured. There is also mental courage shown by the group, not giving in and going to the showground to be with their parents is an act of mental courage, and so is killing people, putting the group’s lives over theirs when they know it is wrong. ‘Courage is not an absence of fear; it is the act of embracing it**-unknown**’ Ellie and Robyn both show moral courage, putting their morals above all else. An example of this is when Ellie shows true remorse to the people she killed with the lawnmower, wishing at times she didn’t do it, and they had captured them. Robyn understands the reason, and says it is almost okay, that the ‘enemy’ invaded, and to ‘betray’ her country like that takes a lot of moral courage. Everyone in the group shows remarkable courage at almost all times, that is the reason they managed to stay alive. **3** **Ellie is concerned by Chris’ morality; she’s concerned that if the romantic relationship break up there will be tension in the group. What tests of their friendship do you see lie ahead for the group?** **B**eing in a war is a tough thing, and it was very trying on the friendships between the group. On multiple occasions, they decided to split up so that if some were killed or captured, the others would be safe. A logical decision, except at times they would rather be locked up with their friends than be without them. Their friendship would collapse if they had to leave one or more of their group, and not try to rescue them. The romantic relationship between Ellie and Lee was thin, and if it collapsed it would cause tension in the group, as Ellie and Lee probably wouldn’t talk to each other for a while, causing the decision making of the group to deteriorate. Chris’s morality was concerning to Ellie, and probably most of the group, but they all enjoyed the extra company in the group. He had difficulty at making ‘good’ decisions, often seeing things differently from the group, and doing different things to justify the decisions he made. The group faced many challenges over the course of the book, and harder, more trying challenges are yet to come. **4** **Why do you think Marsden included the story of Christie in the novel?** The story of Christie references the group. In many ways, the group is like Christie, split from civilisation and alone from the people they care about the most. In the novel, there are two sides to the story; the side where Christie put an end to his families suffering by shooting them, the other he shot them first before they were burnt in the bushfire. Medical science was not as good then as it is today, and they could not tell what came first, the bullet or the fire. He was proclaimed not guilty, but the town still saw him as a murderer, and he was ‘forced’ into being solitary. He was a war hero, and obviously killed people in the war, so the townsfolk saw him as being able to kill people at will, and not value their lives efficiently. This refers to the group that they do not want to have the troubles that come with killing people, and they do not want to be an outcaste in any way. John Marsden included the story of Christie to help the reader understand the troubles the group are going through.

In my opinion, the group should have found a place, and stayed alive. Trying to rescue their families was a ridiculous option, as the showground was heavily defended and nearly impossible to attack. They could attempt to inflict damage on the enemy, but that would put their lives at risk, which was the job of soldiers, not survivors of the initial attack. They could have gone scouting, but again that was unnecessarily risking their lives. They should have stayed in Hell, and found a way to contact the ‘allied forces’, to help them get out to land occupied by the Australians etc. The psychological risks are strong, and they would begin to feel selfish, not helping at all, so they should probably inflict some damage, but for their consciences to feel good about what they had done. In my opinion, staying alive was the most important thing they could do.
 * 1** **Homer puts three choices to the group; try to rescue their families (even though it is very dangerous and unlikely to succeed) inflict damage on the ‘enemy’ or sit tight and stay alive. In your opinion what should the group have done?**

I believe ‘murder’ is not wrong in war, as it is not actually murder. Murder, is when you kill in ‘cold blood’, attacking them to kill them, when you are not in any immediate threat. Killing people in ‘hot blood’ is usually during war, often when defending yourself, or when you are in an immediate risk. War is not the solution, but it is often inevitable, because if one ‘country’ is attacked, you have to fight back to protect their land. When Ellie kills people, she feels guilty, but I think that she would prefer to kill someone, than be inevitably killed by them. Murder is not wrong, survival takes priority, and to kill someone is a part of nature, where survival means everything.
 * 2** **Ellie is relieved that she ‘probably’ has not killed anyone in the bridge explosion. However, she understands that her intention was ‘to do whatever was necessary’ and therefore it was only luck that resulted in no lives being lost. Is murder wrong in war?**

I believe freedom is a better thing, and obviously the group thinks so too. It is a little unexplainable, but I would definitely prefer being at risk than being ‘locked up’. For the same reason they decide to blow up the bridge than stay in Hell, they would rather be doing something to help, and to be free to do what they want, than stay in the same place wishing they could do something to aid the people of their town, and ultimately the country of Australia.
 * Mrs. Billett’s question: what is best, life or freedom?**

The Enemy has every right to not treat Corrie, and even the right to kill Kevin. If Ellie killed a couple of them, Robyn killed multiple people and they do not know if anyone was killed in the bridge explosion. The Enemy has lost many soldiers to the group, so they have every right to not treat Corrie, treating her would be like just letting someone go without harm in the middle of a war. The enemy treated her because she was a just a teenager, and obviously they saw no threat in her walking free, but, once they found out she helped blow up the bridge, they kept treating her. This is initially confusing, until you read the second book, where one of the local nurses recognised her and decided to treat Corrie herself.
 * 3** **Ellie killed people when she caused the first explosion and when she ‘saved’ Lee. Would the enemy have been justified if they had refused to treat Corrie because of this?**

There is no such thing as a clean war, only a cleaner war. A clean war would be where no-one was killed, and that is not a war, so much as a diplomatic decision. The ‘Enemy’ came during the night, surprising everyone, destroying airfields and blockading ports. This is an invasion, because (I’m assuming) people were killed in the initial attack, and the beginning of the war. The other countries did not or were slow to help, as they thought Australia could fix it themselves, but the invaders had already taken all of the important areas, and Australia didn’t have much of a chance at the beginning. Later in the series other countries begin to join Australia, but until then, the land is occupied by the invaders, and the war is NOT clean.
 * 4** **Why would ‘other countries’ be ‘less likely’ to become involved in a ‘clean war’? Forty people died in one area in this ‘clean war.’ Is there such a thing as a ‘clean war’?**


 * Creative Idea **

5 Robyn ‘could understand’ why the ‘enemy’ had invaded. They claimed they were “addressing imbalances within the region.” They had very little. Australia had a great deal. They were going to ‘divide up the farms’ for their people and give Australians the ‘menial’ jobs. This would have resulted in a role reversal. Is that role reversal any less fair than the original situation where Australia was ‘rich’ and wouldn’t ‘share’ their wealth?

“Wow dad, Europe’s been invaded!” said the boy, not realising the troubles of war. “That is not a good thing”, said the dad “Why not? Its exiting!” “Can you imagine us in a position like this?” “Well…no” agreed the boy “why did they attack?” “It was the Africans, so they were probably sick of their famine and terrible jobs in Africa, so they took over part of Europe so they could always be fed, while the Europeans got to do the bad jobs” he explained “But that won’t help, there are still people in Africa, and now the Europeans will have to do those bad things. Isn’t that the same thing, just backwards?” “Yes, and it’s worse than that, the Africans killed people to get into Europe, and, making the Europeans do the bad jobs is not good. They can’t justify their entry, because putting the Europeans in the Africans position is worse, and against good morals.” “So they are bad because they killed people to get in, and then stole the food and stuff? That is bad.” “But don’t worry; it will all be fixed later.”
 * “And now, breaking news, Europe has just been invaded by a foreign attacker who has not released any details about themselves. Brittan, France, Spain and Italy and now in the hands of these mysterious attackers, who, our sources say, are from Africa. Some say this is the beginning of a clean war, others, an end to the peaceful European Union.” **


 * One Week Later **
 * “ **** The city of Paris is now back in Allied hands, only Madrid remains before Europe becomes fully controlled by the Allies. Meanwhile, the president of the African country Chad is being held on trial for multiple war crimes. In other news…” **

Light. The shakes, just light. Harsh Light We're dead, stuttering. Exploding fire Shrill screams ripping my ears

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