Unexpected+Events+-+Nikhal

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//An other unexpected event is when the group of teenagers are frightened by the roar of Kevin when he sees a [|snake] of some sort moving around in his sleeping bag. // ======

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//Homer was the one who eventually picked the sleeping bag and the snake came out, so the snake moved around the area where the group was staying and veryone was scared. Eventually the snake ended near Ellie and she fell own in fright the snake was going to attack her but Lee was there with a log that he had cut for fire. With the hard round peice of log Lee had he used it to hit the snake and he killed the snake in one shot. // ======

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//Another unexpected event is when Ellie and the group of teenagers come back from their trip to Hells Mountains and realise their whole town is missing and all was too quiet. ////Another unexpected event occurs when three members of the group are on a[| reconnaissance]mission to find out what has been going on in their hometown the rural outpost known as Wirrawee. Prior to the invasion the group was camping in isolated bush, so they missed the invasion striking and escaped becoming prisoners. When the enemy becomes alerted to their presence and gives chase, the three run away and find themselves cornered in a back garden. It is dark, they are terrified, the enemy is hunting them, and Ellie makes the split second decision to ignite the petrol tank of a lawn mower in their vicinity. The blast kills their pursuers so the three friends are able to escape. The event deeply affects Ellie. “It was hard to believe that I, plain old Ellie, nothing special about me, middle of the road in every way, had probably just killed three people.” For Ellie and her friends it was a life or death situation, but she wrestles with her decision. // ======

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//An unexpected event in the novel Tomorrow When the War Began, by John Marsden is the moment that Ellie makes a life or death decision and blows up a lawnmower, killing three enemy soldiers. Ellie is the [|narrator] of the novel, she tells the story of her and her friends’ survival after the unprovoked invasion of their country by a foreign power. Her split-second decision is an unexpected event because it is an act of retaliation as well as a life saving measure for her and two of her friends. The event is important because it raises the question of the morality of war, which is an underlying theme in the book. // ======



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