Lachie

hey guys. I'm Lochie and im 13. My birthday is on the 8th of July. I love my sports. I mountain bike, motor bike ride, wakeboared, play footy and yeah, theres more but i can't think at the moment. I have a dog and her name is Sunday. When I'm riding my bike i like to do jumps and the urban stuff (riding down stairs and jumping on and off things). I always try and make things bigger as in my achievments. e.g I got a bike jump out the back and I'm making that about another foot higher; it's already bout knee hight. ;)



Here is my Bayeux Tapestry. Hope you like it. :)

THE BAYUEX TAPESTRY

// BACKGROUND TO THE TAPESTRY // The Tapestry was made by the English Nuns and was designed by the Normans. It was made in 1066; no one knows how long it took to make. It was made to show the people of the towns what happened in the battle of Hastings. It’s possible that the story in the Tapestry is unreliable because the pictures are showing that the Normans had the win all along but actually the Normans were close to losing. The Tapestry was told by the Normans version because they won. If the Saxons had won the Tapestry would be different. The tapestry is not actually a tapestry it’s a Embroidery because there was a bit of material showing. A Tapestry should be fully covered; no material showing.

// WHAT KIND OF EVIDENCE IS THE TAPESTRY? // The Tapestry is primary evidence of the fabric the Nuns used, the way that the Nuns sowed, how it could have been told and the very early ink that they could have had. The Tapestry was more secondary evidence because it was sowed the way the battle of Hastings was told. When the warriors got home they could have told their families bout the battle and what is was like. That could have passed through people but when it cog passed through people is could have slightly been changed then. So the Tapestry could not be right, it could be telling a different sort have story.

// FIRST POSSIBLE CAUSE OF DEATH // The theory and evidence of Harold’s first cause of death was that when Harold swore to the king that he would never lie to Prince William when he got crowned, he mustn’t have promised because later in the story there was a guy with an arrow in his eye. At this time they believed that if you lied you would get your eyes pocked out with a sharp stick or arrow and this was a well known toucher back then. So when Harold died the people of the town thought this was how Harold died and then they started to believe that kind Harold was a lier. After that they didn’t believe everything he said even though he was dead.

// SECOND POSSIBLE CAUSE OF DEATH // The second possible cause of death was a sword in the chest. Further on after the first possible cause of death of king Harold with the arrow in his eye is a sword in his chest. On the Tapestry there is a picture of what everyone believes that is King Harold, with a sword in his chest. There is a Saxon on a horse with a sword going through a Norman. Then Norman was killed because you could see the sword through his chest.

// CONCLUSION // King Harold died from a sword in his chest. On the Tapestry people thought that the warrior with the arrow in his eye was King Harold, but he looks OK. All he lost was one eye and he is still standing up straight. If you follow the words on the Tapestry “King Harold is dead” in Latin, under the word dead, there is a person with a sword through his chest, so he is dead. You would be lucky to survive that. On the Tapestry the Norman who has a sword though his chest has different shoes to the others. This could be King Harold because the Kings wear different clothes so they show out and to show the other warriors that they are the Kings and don’t mess with them.

 1. // Clare //, J.D. (1997) The Middle Ages, Nelson  2. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_hastings.html 3. []

//I tryed to think out side the sqaure when I was doing the assignment 'The Bayeux Tapestry'. The answers are not long because i thought the answer doesn't have to be long if I answer it right. // //This is my 'Prisoners' writting assignment. It's good. Read it! //

 The prisoners

“WALT! Come back mate! WALT! Just get it over and done with!” I yelled to Walter as he ran into the woods dodging behind trees and falling into shell holes, hiding and trembling and the running on again. I knew he didn’t want to shoot the prisoners by the way he ran off into the woods and either did I to be honest, I didn’t want to shoot em’ either. I was thinking about running off with him but I was too late and I didn’t really want to because I knew what the military would do, when they found us. After we got the prisoners all lined up, we were ready to shoot the prisoners. I looked at all of the prisoners. One by one I took a look. Their heads were lowered, neither looking to the right nor the left. Their uniforms we different to ours and some of their toes were out the end of their boots. They didn’t speak our language either. I was ready, ready to shoot these prisoners. Sergeant Pelton gave us the signal to start shooting. All I heard and saw was rifles going off and bullets going side to side. I dint like what I was seeing but I couldn’t really help that. It made me feel sick. Just after we had finished and started to walk back to camp I took one more look at what we had just done. I started to wonder if they we hungry because they looked it when I got there to do my job. If I look at food I think I may chuck. When we got back to the camp site, Inabinett started to play with a cigarette lighter he said he found in the woods. He kept snapping it with a clicking sound. Corporal Foster was opening cans of monkey meat with a bayonet and Roger Inabinett divided the meat and the hardtack into eight equal parts. At the sight of the food when I saw it, I went straight to the edge of the trench and vomited. When I came back Jimmy had a canteen of cognac which he passed over to me. I took a big swig of it and stood up and vomited again. “What’s the matter with you Bill?” asked Foster. “Nothing,” I said. “They’ve pulled that trick on the French a thousand times, and got away with it too!” said Foster. “These Germans are smart hombres. You got to watch them all the time.”

//When I wrote this shortend story I tryed to make it as real lifish as I could. I thought over and over about how I could write it and if I was there how would a write a story at the war. When I wrote it I made it so you could imagin it in your mind; well atlest I tryed to. I imagin the short story with the soilders in their camo uniform carring guns around wiht them, where ever the walk. I see in my imagination some really big muscly guys and some short white Americans. Ms Billett is the best!!!!!!!//  THE MIGHTY DEEDS OF BEOWULF Grendel was a giant troll. During a town party, Grendel came and ran off with 30 people from the party. Beowulf decided to have another party the next night to lead Grendel into it. The next night the town had the party. Grendel came and he killed the guard outside then Beowulf fought and killed Grendel. They put Grendel’s arm up on the wall. A few nights later they had another dinner to celebrate Beowulf’s kill. During the dinner ever-one got drunk and Grendel’s mother came from the sea because she wanted to get revenge. Beowulf went to the swamp and defeated Grendel’s mother. When he came back he had her head walked into town



 A BULLYING STORY.

It was my first day at work. I am now a teacher and teaching at Cape secondary school. It all started out well for me. I was in the staff room during lunch and I was watching the kids out playing, until I saw a group of kids dragging a small kid with them behind a class room. He wasn’t a tough kid but I knew he would try. I got straight out of my seat, put my coffee down and went straight to them. When I was walking to them I realised that there were two kids standing out near the class room to let the group if a teacher was coming. I went around the back way so I couldn’t be seen by the two kids. When I got around the back I said “ Oi leave him alone!” They all scattered away. I helped the small kid up. “what happend?” I said “Nothing. Don’t worry. Go away.” He said about to cry. i went back to the staff room and asked if any one knew what his problem was. Ms Blind said that the kid was having problems with his family. His mum had just died and his dad didn’t have a work, so they were having financial problems. The next morning I saw the little kid get off the bus. He was in a real happy mood. I went up to him and asked him if he was OK from yesterday. He said he was. That day I saw the same thing happen, but this time another teacher went up to them. While he was out with them I decided that we needed to let the principal know what was happening. I went up to him and spoke. He then decided that he would take care of this....

**__ // WHY DO PEOPLE BULLY? // __**  People bully because they may be bullied as well, so they need to get back at someone. Some people bully other people because that’s how their parents act to them and the child thinks it right to bully and fun. Peer pressure, bad memories from the bully been bullied and the bully may not be having a good day so they need to get their anger out. Some common reasons why people bully other people are cultural causes. Some people feel like they got more power over other people from different cultures. Family issues are one and are one that could be a big one. A family that is loving and caring that don’t get too angry at each other, the child could be frustrated from something like homework or something so they would need to get rid of the anger and they would take it out on other kids. Back to the having power bit, some kids are taller and/or bigger so the littler kids are scared from them, so that makes the bigger kids feel tougher.

 HOW IS THE HORROR OF GRENDEL CONVOYED?

The horror of Grendel is convoyed by the author. He uses a number of poetic techniques to make his writing more powerful. A simile the author used was “breathing like a polar wind.” He used this to describe how Grendel stood there. One good metaphor that the author used was “terror stalked the land.” It’s explaining when Grendel walked into the hall. “The mead stood empty.” Some of the short sentence paragraphs were confusing like “the notes stir in the breeze.” A powerful adjective is “deformed” and “mottled.” Deformed and mottled are both describing how Grendel is ugly. In the story Beowulf, there are some parts of the story where you can imagine. One of these bits is when Beowulf and Grendel are fighting. You can really imagine it when you read it. You can see Grendel and Beowulf fighting. Their skin, the action and the moves. The author really explains Grendel’s appearance. Some of the explanations the author uses for explaining Grendel is “deformed” and “mottled.” Some assonance that is in the story of Beowulf is “give ear.” Assonance is like when you shorten words. The author used alliteration really well when Beowulf went down to the swamp. He used “he was going into the slimy, slippery, stinky swamp to look for Grendel’s mother.”

 WHAT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE THERE BETWEEN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD?

Intro: Exploration. Exploration was done by many of people. Some explorers did not actually find places they ‘rediscovered them.’ Rediscovering is when a country that has been already found, is rediscovered. Marco Polo is a good example for this. He rediscovered Asia but he did what the other explorers did not do. That was write a book.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Art/ education: Back in these periods the people did not work like we do and earn the money. To earn money back then they would have to sell things. The way that they bought things back then was by trading. They would trade animals. When they got money they would send the boys to get educated.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Science: the science was very different between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">EXPLORATION: crusades. The Crusades did a lot of exploration. The went to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem in 1090. The Pope thought he would get 5,000 people but instead he got 100, 000. Only 20, 000 arrived. While they were over in Jerusalem they saw new food, technology, new Ideas, new religions, hygiene, science, maths and medicine. They brought them back with them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Marco Polo: Marco Polo was not the first explorer to travel to Asia but he was the first to write a book about it. The book informed every one back at home about Asia. While he travelled through Asia he learnt new things and found new thing. This took him 24 years for him to travel through all of Asia. He kept travelling back to Asia so he must have liked it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Trade: Back in these periods they didn’t not earn money like how we do now. They survived by trading is a way you could put it. The people would trade, earn money and then send their sons to get educated. They only educated their sons because they believed that the males could run the world and that they were the ones that were stronger and needed to be smarter.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">EDUCATION/ ART/ SCIENCE: <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #4f81bd 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 4pt; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE DEATH OF JININI <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The children were listening in their own ways to Ole Ma. For the boys they were hearing it more as a story. The reader know this by how the character were described in the story. “Eddy sat in silence, his eyes like moons.” The reader can tell that the girl that was also listening to story because she understood it and Ole Ma was telling the story to her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> TASK 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Homer was another main leader because he was the more manly character. He was wild at school when he was younger so that kinder gives the idea that he went out in the bush many of times and got experience from that. He may have also (because he lived on a farm and he is a very outback person) had a few weapons from his father, so he would have mastered them at a young age. Homer backed Ellie up a lot through-out the novel. At one stage in the novel, Homer put his ideas out there. He said that ‘the way [he] [sees] it, these are our choices, now we know a bit more about the deal.’ ‘One we can sit tight and do nothing,’ ‘two, we can have a go at getting our families and maybe other people out from the show ground’ and ‘three we can do something else to help the good guys.’ To me he is giving out ideas so that don’t just sit around.
 * 1) Ellie was the leader of the group most of the time but other people also were leaders. We see Ellie as a leader because she was the one that wrote the book. We got the book in Ellie’s perspective. We believe Ellie is the leader because she was the one that set up the whole camping trip (with Corrie, but mainly Ellie set it up). The other campers followed what Ellie said most of the time because they may have thought she had plans for the camp. When Ellie blew up the mower, right before she struck the match ‘for the first time [she] saw [the] [soldiers] faces; then [she] struck the match.’
 * 1) Ellie would be the person in the group with the remarkable courage. She is always doing the death facing stuff to keep he mates and herself safe. She is always going through physical pain because she is the one that (most of the time) making the decisions and has pressure on her but Homer backs her up sometimes. There are two main types of courage. There is moral courage which is making the right moral decision, no matter what you are in. The other courage is physical courage. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, death or threat of death. Ellie shows both sorts of courage.
 * 2) The tests of friendship could be resulted from the breakup of a couple which could lead to anger and the group could lead to a harder chance of surviving. The group was already struggling at that point to stay alive. If there was a breakup it would have gotten even harder and may have resulted in some members of the group been killed. If one person of the group became angry at another person in the group, which could lead to even more people becoming angry. If this happened, it would have put a lot of tension on the group. Friendship would have been tested majorly if there was a breakup in the group.
 * 3) Marsden included the story of Christie in the novel to show the group not to kill each other. Christie ended up in the bush because he killed up wife and baby. He was sentenced guilty because he shot his wife and baby then burnt the house to get rid of the evidence. His story was that there was a bush fire and his wife and baby were badly burnt so he shot then to put them out of their misery. No one believed him. He decided to go live in the bush because the society didn’t want him. They thought he was a threat. Marsden is putting out the message to the group to not kill each other because the society will not what them.

Task 3

Ellie as the narrator is quite reliable J because she said ‘I should write all formal but I can’t do it.’ J That’s saying that she knows she should be writing very formal because she is writing a book but she can’t because of the distractions. J [P1] Throughout the novel Ellie writes down what she thinks in her mind for example with the mower explosion, ‘for the first time I saw their faces.’ The reader is feeling what Ellie is thinking. J Ellie was very infallible J because of all the distractions J. She forgets things and may sometimes try to remember them as hard as she could but they wouldn’t come back so she may make some of it up, from where she could remember from. Ellie is a very adventurist person so she tries to add this throughout the book. She explains ever one as much as she can… J

Not enough quotes and maybe a bit too long. More quotes more good.

Dear Lochie, good try, try use more quotes and other stuff.

[P1] Good explaining lochie

Task 4


 * 1) Through-out the novel Ellie changed the most. At the beginning of the novel Ellie was adventurous, but by the end she was more of a dare-devil. Through the novel Ellie goes from a sweet person to a person who can still “see their faces” and still kill a person. At the start of the novel, Ellie wrote "I'd better stop biting my tongue and start biting the bullet." This is saying that she was not too sure what to write, but then by the end of the novel, Ellie knew what she was writing about. She was very continues. Ellie put herself ‘out there’, but not to just for herself, but for the group.
 * 2) Homer was a genius for coming up with the plans to ‘rescue’ Lee and destroy the bridge. Homer’s plan to ‘rescue’ Lee was a really good idea. The bucket of the truck was like bullet proof. This is good because Lee would have been able to get shot. The only problem with Lee been in the bucket is that Ellie is not able to use the bucket to knock things over, with Lee in the bucket. Homer’s plan to destroy the bridge was really handy. It stopped more ‘enemies’ to come in and be backup since it was the only way into the town. The only problem with blowing up the bridge was that no one could get out or in. Homer was really smart by the way the convoys went over the bridge. “[They will] wait for a convoy to go through, which seems to get the soldiers up to the right end of the bridge.” Homer’s planes stopped many of convoys coming in.
 * 3) Ellie was a good person but bad person as well. Killing people is not right, but in war, killing people is what you have to do to stay alive. When Ellie made the ride on mower as a bomb. She killed three people. However if she didn’t kill these three people, Ellie, Corrie and Kevin could have been shot and killed. When the group blew up the bridge, they would have most likely killed a couple of ‘soldiers’. Depending on if it’s a war or not some things may seem different. If there was not a war and Ellie killed someone she would be sent to jail. However if there was a war and Ellie killed someone (a soldier) she would not be put into jail because she is defending the country. In a war, a person cannot be either good or bad.
 * 4) Chris did not belong in the group. All Chris did was slow the group down and put the group to risk when he should have been guarding the group. When he was asleep, the ‘enemy’ could have come in and killed every one in the house. They lost the trust for him because he was supposed to be protecting them. He did not put ideas to the group. Chris also took cigarettes out of someone’s house while they were going through a house. He was taking things that weren’t important for the group. He did not do anything helpful for the group.

TASK 7 PART 1

__ The Famous Five __ was mentioned at the start of __Tomorrow When The War Began__. In both novels young people are involved in adventures without guidance from adults. Both believe in young people’s initiative, capability, teamwork and have sound moral values. Julian’s group were able survive alone and catch criminals. They could rely on themselves not just to be able to survive, but also to instinctively determine good from bad. Ellie’s group also were able to survive in the isolated conditions of Hell. However, morality is less easy in __Tomorrow When The War Began__ partly because the situation changes so suddenly from peace to war and partly because “normal” social conventions do not apply in war. The happy ending of __The Famous Five__ reflects the its audience, but also a belief in a safe and ordered world. __Tomorrow When The War Began__ sees the world as changeable and potentially dangerous. Ellie’s group began a “famous five” adventure, but found life morphed into a war scenario. Both novels believe that young people can manage difficult situations as well as adults can. Both novels believe in young people.

TASK 7 PART 2

The Vietnam War was a cold war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The war went for 13 years. It started 1962 and finished in 1975. From the first Australian that stepped in Vietnam, almost 60,000 Australian troops, including ground troops, air force and navy personnel, helped out in the Vietnam War. 521 people died and 3000 were wounded. In 1961 and 1962 Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of the government in South Vietnam, repeatedly wanted security assistance from the US. Australia eventually responded with 30 military advisers, was named as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and also known as "the Team". Their arrival in South Vietnam during July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">By 1969 anti-war protests were starting momentum in Australia. s more people came to believe the war could not be won. A "Don't register" campaign to dissuade young men from registering for conscription gained increasing support and some of the protests grew violent




 * ** TOMORROW WHEN THEN WAR BEGAN ** ||


 * 1) The group should have inflicted damage on the ‘enemy.’ If the group just ‘sat tight’ the enemy would have just done more damage and continued on with what they were doing. If they tried to save their families, they could have been captured and then they would have been stuck and not able to do anything. If the group inflicted damage on the ‘enemy’ that might be able to stop the enemy and if they plan it well they might be able to get rid of the enemy all tighter. However if they do not inflict damage on the enemy right, it might let the enemy know that they are still out there. Inflicting damage on the enemy could make a difference but there is always a danger.
 * 2) Murder is not wrong in war. If there was no murder in war, then it is not a war. Although people do not want to kill each other in war, they almost have to because they are defending their country. War would not be war if there was no murder. Murder is almost a way knocking the other team out in a way. If there was no murder in war how else would the war teams be able to work out what to do. They wouldn’t be able to play chess or rock, paper, sisers. It’s just not right. It would just start a fight and still end up as a war.
 * 3) Yes, it is alright for the enemy to not take care for Corrie after Ellie killing some soldiers in the first explosion. The enemy would have seen it as a ‘if you kill some of us, we will kill some of you.’ If Ellie didn’t kill some of those soldiers they would have followed them and most likely captured them and killed them.
 * 4) ‘Other countries’ would be less ‘likely’ to become involved in a clean war because it is not a huge war with two countries fighting. In the novel ‘Tomorrow When The War Began’ when the enemy invaded Australia tried to kill them out but they failed. The enemy was just too strong for Australia. A clean war is a war but not with many of deaths. A non-clean war would result in hundreds of deaths. ‘Forty people died in one area’ in this clean war. Although this could have been some residence and some ‘soldiers’ it is still a small number. No there is no such thing as a clean war because a clean war would have to have no deaths. No war is clean, they all have deaths. A clean war would have to be something like chess.
 * 5) The role reversal is less fair than the original situation where Australia was ‘rich’ and wouldn’t ‘share’ their wealth. Australia is Australia and Australian’s should do what they want for jobs instead of doing the ‘menial’ jobs. If Australia invaded another country say for example Malaysia, the Malaysian government would not be happy. It’s not right for the enemy to invade Australia and place in what they think is right. Although Australia is ‘rich and wealthy’ we still should share our resources with the ‘poorer’ countries. However will still have our rules and not theirs. Each country has its laws and they should not be changed by other countries invading.

WHAT DOES TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN SUGGEST THAT LOYALTY, COURAGE AND GOODNEES ARE?

In John Marsden’s novel __Tomorrow When The War Began__ the reader is confronted with the human characteristics of loyalty, courage and goodness. These are shown to be positive characteristics and ones that help the group to survive. Trusting in others; the inner strength to face fears and being respectful of others and their rights are all behaviours that the isolated group of teenagers discover in themselves and discover the importance of as they face a suddenly uncertain future.

The isolated group of teenagers show loyalty. They care for each other, their families and their country. The group determines that they are safe. When Corrie had to be taken to the hospital, the group had to make sure that Corrie and Kevin did not let the ‘enemy’ know that they were out their fighting for their country or where they were staying. When the group saw their families in the show grounds, it may have reduced the options, how they could have got the ‘enemy’ away. Everyone in the group had a duty to do at every moment. However the group did kill some ‘soldiers’ to defend their country, the ‘enemy’ was as well. They were fighting for their country too. The group of teenagers showed loyalty at many of moment throughout the novel.

The brave group of isolated teenagers have courage to fight for their country. The group’s courage was phenomenal to take the risks they took and the inner strength they had. Their physical courage took them a long way throughout the novel __Tomorrow When The War Began.__ If they didn’t have the physical courage that they had they could most likely be dead. They wouldn’t have survived. Lee had physical courage when he had to sit in the front of the front end loader. That would have taken a huge amount of physical courage to sit in the front of a front end loader. When Ellie made the ride on mower as a bomb, she had courage. After __‘the first time [Ellie] saw their faces’__ she would have been extremely scared, but because of her courage __‘[she then] struck the match.’__ Homer had the social courage to go and talk to Fi when he wasn’t sure if she would like him or not. It takes a lot of social courage to go and talk to someone if you’re not too sure if they will like you or not. Moral courage would have been when Ellie had to use the mower as the bomb. When __‘[Ellie] struck the match; it didn’t light.’__ ‘__[she] thought [that they were] about to die, just because [she] couldn’t light a match.’__ The moral courage comes in when Kevin grabs Ellie’s wrist and says __‘do it.’__ If Kevin didn’t whisper to Ellie and told her to do it, they could have most likely died. If the group didn’t have courage they would have been shot or been captured.

The undercover group had goodness. Each member of the group respects each other and their rights. This is a good thing because they will listen to each other and work with each other. Even though Ellie kills people, she is still good because she worries about it. Ellie wouldn’t go around killing people because she wanted to. She had to kill these people to survive. John Marsden is saying that goodness isn’t behaving well, it is behaving the best you can in the situation you are in. Courage and goodness link to each other because you need courage to be good.

John Marsden presents the reader with a group of very capable young people that can survive in the hardest conditions and make plans to save the country.