Name the 3 synonyms for dystopia
1. Heaven
2. Eden
3. Camely
Looking at the original cover to the right, answer the following questions, remember to explain why you think for each answer.
What do you think the story will be about? Whilst camping at a local spot affectionately called Hell.
When do you think the story is set? John mars den
Why do you think the cover has soldiers, barbed wire and guns? I don’t know
Do you think the story will be interesting? It will be amazing
Chapter 1
There’s only one way to do this and that’s to tell it in order, _chronologycal_order. I know writing it down is _important________ to us. That’s why we all got so _excited_____ when Robyn ___suggested______ it It’s terribly, terribly important .Recording what we’ve done, in words, on paper, it’s got to be our way of telling ourselves that we mean something, that we _matter______. Pg. 2
Excited, matter, chronological, suggested, important
‘We’ve got a _wimp___ for a Foreign Minister,’ the face was _shouting_______. ‘He’s weak, he’s gutless, he’s the new Neville Chamberlain. He doesn’t understand the people he’s dealing with. They _respect______ strength, not __weakness________!’ ‘Do you think _defence______ is high on the Government’s __agenda_____?’ the interviewer asked. ‘High? High? You must be joking! Do you know what they’ve cut from the defence __budget____?’ Pg. 9
budget, defence, wimp, respect, weakness, shouting,agenda,
‘After all, what’s the worst thing that could happen? _Hunters______ in four-wheel drives? They’d have to come through our place, and Dad’d stop them. __bushfires_______? There’s so much rock up there we’d be safer than we would at home. __snakebite_______? We all know how to _treat_____ snakebite. We can’t get lost, cos Tailor’s Stitch is like a highway. I’ve been going up into that country since I could walk.’
Pg. 12
Chapter 2
snakebite, worst, treat, bushfires, country, hunters
If Dad had known how bad the __track_______ was he’d never have let us take the Land Rover. He trusts my driving, but not that much. Still, we _____bouncing____ along, me ___wrestling______ with the wheel, doing a steady five k’s, with __occasional_______ bursts up to ten. P.17
wrestling, track, trusts, occasional, bouncing
At least they seemed willing to take a shot at the first of _satan’s________ Steps. But even the first step was difficult. We had to drop into a __tangle_______ of old logs and blackberries, then _scramble________ up the _____tilted____ scarred face of the rock. We got quite __scarred_______ ourselves. There was a fair bit of ___swearing______ and sweating and pulling other people up and ___hanging______ on to other people’s packs before we were all standing on top, __peering_______ down at Homer’s ledge. P.24
tilted, satan’s, scarred, peering, swearing, tangle, scramble, hanging
It was a __pretty_______ little thing. The sun didn’t ____reach_____ it, so it was dark and cool and __secret_______. The water _____bubbled____ over rocks that were green and _slippery________ with moss. I knelt and ____soaked_____ my face, then ____lapped_____ like a dog as the others started to arrive. P27
Chapter 3
Bubbled, slippery, lapped, soaked, reach, pretty, secret
The track was taking us __downhill_______ all the time. It wound around a bit, looking for the best __route_______ , but the _____trend____ was always downhill. It was going to be quite a__sweat_______ getting back up. We’d lost a lot of __altitude_______ . It was beautiful though, quiet, _shady________ , cool and damp. There were no flowers, just more shades of green and brown than the English language knows about. The ground was deep in leaf __litter_______ there were times when we lost the track beneath heaps of bark and leaves and ___twings______ , but a _search________ around under the trees always found it again. P. 31
route, trend, downhill, damp, altitude, shady, twigs, litter, search, sweat
We found ourselves in a ___clearing______ about the size of a hockey field, or a bit bigger. It would have been hard to play _hockey________ on though, because it wasn’t much of a clearing. It was studded with trees, three _beautiful________ old eucalypts and quite a few suckers and _saplings________. The creek was at the _western________edge; you could hear it but not see it. The creek was _flatter________and wider here and cold, __freezing_______ cold, even on a summer day. P.32
Chapter 4
beautiful, western, saplings, clearing, flatter, freezing, hockey
He just stood there white in the face and _trembling________, looking like he was going to cry. I think he was so _paralysed________ that he would have waited and let the snake _crawl________ up his leg and bite him. It was funny, considering how _tough________ he’d been when he had the _stick________ and was lifting the bag, thinking he was _safe________. But there wasn’t really much time or space for __rational_______ thoughts at that stage of my life; my irrational mind was running the show. P36
trembling, paralysed, tough, safe, rational, running, stick, crawl
I went for a walk back up the track, to the last of Satan’s _steps________ The sun had already __warmed_______ the great _granite________ wall and leaned against it with my eyes half shut, thinking about our hike, and the path and the man who’d built it, and this place called Hell. ‘Why did people call it Hell?’ I __wondered_______ . All those cliffs and rocks, and that _vegetation________ , it did look wild. But _wild________ wasn’t Hell. Wild was fascinating, __difficult_______ , wonderful. No place was Hell, no place could be Hell. It’s the __people_______ calling it Hell, that’s the only thing that made it so. P.43
2. VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words, write the meaning using your own words. Chronological, Authority, Alternatives, Gratification, Obstinate, Hoist, Unsympathetic, Scrutinising, Commemoration, Hysterically, Concealed.
4. CREATE- You have now encountered 7 of the 8 main characters. Create a relationship web that shows the relationships between each of the characters. Include next to each person a brief description of who they are.
Chapter 5
Warmed, vegetation, wild, granite, steps, wondered, difficult, people
We got fat and _lazy________, camping in the _clearing________ . Every day someone would say ‘OK, today we’re __definitely_______ going up the top and doing a good _long________ walk’, and every day we’d all say ‘Yeah, I’ll come’, ‘Yeah, we’re getting too _slack________ ’, ‘Yeah, __good_______ idea’. P.45
Clearing, lazy, definitely, slack, long, good
It’s ___amazing______ how quickly your _attitudes________ can change. I remember hearing on the __radio_______ someone saying how _prisoners________ of war had been so grateful for any little _scrap________ of food when they were___libarated______ at the end of World War Two, then two days later they were __complaning_______ because they got chicken __noodle_______ soup instead of tomato. That was just like __us_______ – and still is. P.51
Radio, attitudes, prisoners, scrap, liberated, complaining, us, noodle, amazing
It was about half an hour from the _ swimming________ hole to home. I don’t know if I was happy that day – those __tense_______ and edgy ___edgy______ were getting stronger and _stronger________ – but I do know I’ve never been __happy_______
since. P55
Chapter 6
Stronger, happy, swimming, tense, feelings
The dogs were _dead________ . That was my first thought. They didn’t __jump_______ around and bark when we drove in, or _moan________ with joy when I _ran________ over to them, like they always had done. They lay beside their little _galvanised________ iron humpies, flies all over them, _oblivious________ to the last warmth of the sun. Their eyes were __red_______ and desperate and their _snouts________ were covered with dried _froth________ . P55
Dead, galvanised, oblivious, jump, snouts, froth, ran, red, moan
I came back with the radio, switching it on as I rushed along the_corridor________ , spinning the _tuner________ to find a station. By the time I got to the kitchen I’d already _scanned________ the whole range once and got nothing but _static________ Must have gone too fast, I thought, like I always do. I never l_learn________ . I started the second search as the others watched _anxiously________ , uncomprehending. This time was slow and _careful________ , but the result was the same: nothing. Now we were all _really________ frightened. P.59
Learn, anxiously, careful, nothing,Corridor, tuner, scanned, static, really
‘Maybe all my mother’s _stories________ made me think of it before you guys. And like Robyn said before, if we’re __wrong_______,’ he was __struggling_______ to get the words out, his face _twisting________like someone having a stroke, ‘if we’re wrong you can_laugh________ as long and loud as you want. But for now, for now, let’s say it’s_true________. Let’s say we’ve been _invaded________. I think there might be a _war________’ P.68
tar, twisting, stroke, laugh, true, stories, wrong, struggling, invaded
Chapter 7
Corrie, I’m in the Show Secretary’s_office________ . Something’s going on. People say it’s just _army________ manoeuvres but I’m sending this anyway, then heading home to __tear_______ it up so no one’ll know what an__idiot_______ I’ve been. But Corrie, if you do get this, go __bush_______ . Take great care. Don’t come out till you know it’s _safe________ . Much love darling_________ . Dad. P.73
Army, Office, tear, idiot, bush, safe, darling
The town was in _darkness________, no street lights even. There must have been some _power________ though, because there were quite strong lights at the Showground – the _floodlights________ they used for the trotting track – and a couple of buildings in the centre of town were __lit_______. As we sat there we talked softly about our _next________ move. There was no question that we had to try to __reach_______ Fi’s house, and Lee’s. Not because we _expected________ to find anyone, but because five of us had seen our homes, had seen the ___emptiness______, had been given a chance to understand, and it was only ___fair______ that the last two should get the same right. P.74
lit, next, reach, darkness, power, floodlights, expected, emptiness, fair
Chapter 8
lit, next, reach, darkness, power, floodlights, expected, emptiness, fair
It was hard for me to believe that I, ___plain______ old Ellie, nothing special about me, middle of the road in every way, had __probably_______ just killed three people. It was too big a thing for me to get my mind around. When I thought of it _badly________ like that: killed three people, I was so filled with _horror________. I felt that my life was permanently _damaged________, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a _shell________. Ellie might walk and talk and eat and drink but the inside Ellie, her feelings, was _condemned________ to __wither_______and die. P.95
Condemned, Probably, plain, badly, wither, horror, damaged, shell,
‘You guys did well. Don’t feel so bad. This is _war________. now, and normal _rules________. don’t apply. These people have __invaded_______.our land, _locked________.up our families. They caused your dogs to die, Ellie, and they tried to kill you _three________.. The Greek side of me __understand_______. these things. The moment they left their _country________.to come here they knew what they were doing. They’re the ones who _tore________. up the rule book, not us.’ p.96
tore, war, caused, three, rules, invaded, locked, understands, country,
VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words, write the meaning using your own words. Underestimate, Itinerary, Improvise, Motivate, Conspicuous, Feeble, Delirious, Sentry, Agonise, Famine
WRITING - During the lawnmower incident we encounter foreign sentries. Write a diary entry from the point of view of one of the invading soldiers. Consider what they might see, do and feel during a day in occupied Wirrawee.
Chapter 9
Corrie, we were still __innocent_______ . Right up to __yesterday_______ . We didn’t believe in Santa Claus but we believed_________ in other fantasies. You said it. You said the _big________ one. We believed we were _safe________ . That was the big _fantasy________ . Now we know we’re not, and like you said, we’ll never __feel_______ safe again, and so it’s bye- bye innocence. It’s been nice _knowing________ you, but you’re gone now.’ P. 107
knowing, safe, fantasy, believed, big, yesterday, innocent, feel
There was something _sinister________ about it, something _diabolical________ . It flew with a sense of purpose, _deliberate________ and cold-blooded. As it crossed the road it seemed to pause a little, give a slight _shudder________ . From under each wing flew two little _darts________ , two horrible black things that grew as they _approached________ us. They were coming terribly __fast_______ . Corrie gave a cry that I’ll never forget, like a __wounded_______ bird. One rocket hit the house, and one was all it took. The house came _apart________ in slow motion. P.119
Approached, fast, wounded,Sinister, diabolical, apart, deliberate, shudder, darts
Chapter 10
At the top of the _hill________ nothing had changed. The _view________ over Wirrawee was the same, the __lights_______ were still on at the Showground, and in a few other _places________ . One of those places, as Homer __pointed_______ out, was the Hospital. It looked like they had it _functioning________ . But there was no __sign_______ of Robyn or Lee. P.126
hill, functioning, sign, view, lights, places, pointed
Robyn looked _ghastly________ too; the _torchlight________ didn’t help, but her face was more like a _skull________ than a face, high cheekbones and __gaunt_______ cheeks and sunken eyes. And we all _smelt________ so bad. It seemed a long time since our _swim________ in the river, and we’d __sweated_______ a lot in the meantime. P.130
gaunt, sweated, swim, ghastly, skull, torchlight, smelt,
‘We’re _going________ to have to get him out. They’ll find him pretty _quickly________ there. The more __settled_______ these people get, the more they’ll _oranise________ themselves, and the _more________ they’ll start getting __tigther_______ control of everything. P.136
quickly, going, settled, organise, tighter, more
Chapter 11
The first _bullets________ hit. They rang on the _steel________ of the truck like a _giant________ with a sledgehammer was attacking it. Some of them _hummed________away again, out into the _darkness________, violent _blind________mosquitos, ricochets. I hoped they wouldn’t hit anyone __innocent_______. P. 143
Bullets, steel, giant, hummed, darkness, blind, innocent
For a week he’d had no _contact________ with anyone, just watched from a tree, and later the _piggery________, as patrol after _patrol________ came through the property. The first group had __taken_______ all the cash and jewellery; Chris had_buried________ the other small __valuables_______ after that, but had spent the rest of the___week______ in hiding, __emerging_______ only to check animals and pick up ___supplies______ from the house. P152
emerging, contact, patrol, supplies taken, piggery, buried, valuables, week
Chapter 12
‘And then I think about Corrie and how it must be __terrible_______. for her, much worse than for me. For all you guys with ______little___. brothers and sisters. That must be terrible. And ___imagine______. how Chris’s parents would feel, being __overseas_______., probably not being able to get back into the _country________, not having a clue what’s happened to Chris.’
‘We don’t know how __widespread_______. this thing is. It could involve a lot of countries. Remember that _joke________. we made, up in Hell, about World War Three? We could have been__right_______ onto it.’ P.160
Terrible, joke, little, imagine, right, overseas, country, clue, widespread, involve
He was asleep, and I was __furious_______. I shouted, screamed, and then __kicked_______ him, hard. Even while I was doing it I was __shocked_______ at myself. Even now, as I think about it, I’m shocked at __myself_______. The thing that scared me most was the __thought_______ that maybe all the __violent_______things I’d been doing, with the ride-on mower and the __truck_______, had _transformed________ me in the space of a couple of nights into a _ranging________ monster. But on the other hand, it was __unforgivable_______for Chris to have gone to sleep. He’d risked the lives of all of us by being so __slack_______. P.161
Transformed, furious, myself, thought, kicked, shocked, violent, truck, raging, unforgivable slack
WRITING - Chris fell asleep on sentry duty. Rewrite an ending to this event where the teenagers are found by the invaders. Whose point of view are you writing from? What happens? How do they react/feel?
CREATE- Create a poem based on an event in the story so far. Draw in your reader by using poetic language, metaphors, similes and engaging vocabulary. Aim for 10-20 lines.
Chapter 13
One of the small __rituals______ that developed each day was Corrie’s Testing the Trannie. This was a _solemn_____ ceremony that took place whenever Corrie got the __urge__. She’d get up, look at the tent, give a little _murmur_____ like ‘I think I _might____ give the trannie another burl’, and walk over to the tent. A moment later she’d _emerge_____ with the __precious_____ object in her hands and go to the highest point in the clearing and, holding the _transistor________ to her ear, carefully turn the dial. Pg. 166
might, transistor, rituals, urge, precious, solemn, murmur, emerge
‘... warned _america_______ not to get ___involved____. The General said that America would find herself in the longest, _costliest________ and __bloodiest_______ war in her history if she tried to __intervene______. He said his forces have _occupied________ several major coastal cities. Much of the inland has been taken already, and losses have been below __expectations________. Many __civilian_____ and military prisoners have been captured and are being held in __humanitarian_________ conditions. Red Cross teams will be __permitted_______ to inspect them when the situation _stabilises___________.
‘The General repeated his claim that the _invation________ was aimed at “_reducing_________ _imbalances__________ within the region”. As international outrage continues to mount, FCA reports __sporadic______ fighting in many country areas and at least two major land battles ...’ Pg. 168
involved, bloodiest, reducing imbalances, humanitarian, sporadic, stabilises, America, occupied, civilian, costliest, intervene, expectations, inspect, invasion
Chapter 14
Monday morning a dark river of _aircraft______ flowed overhead for an hour or more. Not ours
__unfortunately_________. I’d never seen so many aircraft. They looked like big fat _transport_______ planes and they weren’t being molested by anyone, though a half-hour later six of our Air Force jets _whistled________ past on the same route. We waved to them, __optimistically__________. P.179 Aircraft, route, optimistically, unfortunately, whistled, transport
To __amuse____ Fi I closed my eyes, picked up the Bible, opened it at __random____, pointed to a spot, opened my eyes and read the _verse____, saying at the same time, ‘Through my __psychic_____ finger I will find a sentence that applies to us’. The one I’d picked was this: ‘I hate them with perfect _hatred______; I count them my _enemies_______.’
‘Golly,’ said Fi. ‘I thought the Bible was meant to be full of love and ___forgiveness_________ and all that stuff.’ P. 180
hatred, enemies, random, verse, psychic, forgiveness, amuse
Chapter 15
Fi __drifted_____ off to sleep, but I lay awake listening to the night sounds, the breeze in the hot trees, the howls of _feral_____ dogs in the distance, the occasional _throaty______ call of a bird. I wondered how I’d feel if Fi got off with Homer. I still couldn’t quite believe that I suddenly liked Homer so much. He’d been a ___neighbour____, a brother, for so long. I tried to think back to the way he’d been a month ago, a year ago, five years ago when he was just a kid. I wanted to work out when he’d become __attractive_______, or why I hadn’t noticed it before, but I couldn’t feel anything much for the way he’d been in those days. It was like he’d _metamorphose___________. Overnight he’d become sexy and _interesting___________. Pg.194
metamorphosed, interesting, feral, drifted, attractive, throaty, neighbour
The box was showing the early signs of _rust___, with some red lines starting to creep along it, but it was in good __condition______. It was unlocked, and opened easily. Craning over Lee’s arm, I saw nothing but papers and photographs. It was __disappointing________, although as I _realised______ later gold wasn’t much use to us, living our __guerilla_____ life up in the mountains. Lee lifted out the papers and the photos. Underneath them was a small blue case, like a wallet, but made of stiffer __material_______ and fastened with a small gold clasp.He opened that, carefully. Inside, wrapped in tissue paper and resting on white _linen_____ cloth, was a
brightly coloured short wide ribbon, attached to a heavy _______ medal. Pg. 203
rust, bronze, condition, guerilla, linen, material, realised, disappointing
Chapter 16-17
I too had __blood____ on my hands, like the Hermit, and just as I couldn’t tell whether his _actions______ were good or bad, so too I couldn’t tell what mine were. Had I killed out of love of my friends, as part of a noble _crusade______ to rescue friends and family and keep our land free? Or had I killed because I _valued_____ my life above that of others? Would it be OK for me to kill a _dozen____ others to keep myself alive? A hundred? A thousand? At what point did I _condemn______ myself to Hell, if I hadn’t already done so? The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming _heroes_____, like David with Goliath. That didn’t help me much.
I didn’t feel like a _criminal______, but I didn’t feel like a hero either. P.216
condemn, blood, criminal, actions, dozen, valued, heroes, crusade
The people we’ve talked to say the _soldiers________ are __anxious_____ to keep their noses clean.
They know that sooner or later the United Nations and the Red Cross’ll be wandering around, and they don’t want to _attract______ a lot of heat from them. They keep talking about a “clean” __invasion______. They figure that if there’s no talk of __concentration_______ camps and __torture_____ and rape and stuff, there’s less chance of countries like America getting involved.’ P.224
invasion, soldiers, concentration,attract, torture, anxious
VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words, write the meaning using your own words: Reverential, Distinguish, Violated, Scrounge, Astonished, Consolation, Gallantry, Stern, Begrudging, Crusade
WRITING - Life in the fairgrounds is unpleasant. Choose to write either a day in the life of someone at the fairgrounds, or a conversation between two captives at the fairgrounds as they plan an escape.
Chapter 18
‘The way I see it, these are our _choices______, now that we know a bit more about the deal. One, we can sit tight and do nothing. And there’s nothing chicken about that. It’s got a lot to __recommend_________ it. We’re not __trained_____ for this stuff, and it’s important for ourselves, and for our families, and for that matter even our __country_______, that we stay alive. Two, we can have a go at getting our families and maybe other people out of the Showground. That’s a _tough_______ one, probably way beyond our reach. I mean, we’ve got _rifles_____ and shotguns but they’d be popguns _compared__to what these turkeys are using. Three, we can do something else to help the good guys. That’s us, I might add, in case anyone’s __confused_______.’ He grinned at Robyn. ‘We could involve ourselves in some way that would help us win this war and get our country back. There’s other things we could do too of course, other options, like moving somewhere else, or ___surrendering________, but they’re so __remote______ I don’t think they’re worth _discussing_______, although we will if anyone wants to of course. P.238
confused, recommend, remote, discussing, country, surrendering, choices trained, compared, tough, rifles
Chapter 19
There were two _armoured_________ cars in the lead, followed by half a dozen jeeps, half a dozen trucks, then two more armoured cars. We also saw a second _patrol_____; a truck with a spotlight mounted on the _roof____ of the cabin and a machine gun in the back. It wasn’t a very smart arrangement, because we could see it from a long way off, the light combing the bush, backwards and forwards. We had time to slide back into the _scrub____ and watch from behind trees. I wouldn’t like to have been a soldier in that truck, because guerillas could have picked them off easily. Perhaps it showed that __guerialls_____ weren’t so _active______ around here. But as I waited behind the tree for the truck to pass I was surprised and a little _alarmed________ to realise how much I was starting to think like a soldier. ‘If we were up a tree with rifles,’ I thought, ‘and one person shot out the _front________ and the others went for the machine gunner ... Better still have one person out the front shooting through the windscreen to get the people in the cabin ...’ Satisfied with our ‘time spent in __reconnaissance___________’ we withdrew further into the bush to talk. P.246
reconnaissance, guerillas, active, armoured, alarmed, spotlight, patrol, roof, scrub,
Chapter 20
I was a bit _nervous_______ being paired with Fi, I must _admit______. There was no way I was ever going to be a hero, but at _least_____ I was used to doing outdoors, _practical______ things, and I suppose that gives you a bit of _confidence______. P. 255
practical, nervous, confidence, least, admit
She _gasped_____ just one word: ‘Patrol’, and together we went over a low _fence_____ into someone’s front garden. There was a huge old gum tree right in front of us. I was so nervous that it seemed to be the only thing I could see. My eyes and mind _focused_______ entirely on it; nothing else _existed______ for me at that moment. I climbed it like a _possum_____, scratching my hands but not feeling any pain. Fi followed. I got about three metres up before I heard __voices______ from the corner, which slowed me down, made me quieter, more __cautious______. I _inched______ out along a branch to take a look. I didn’t know if getting up here had been a mistake or not. I remembered Dad, one day when he’d put a big _ugly____ patch on a hole in the leaves that possums had made, saying ‘The human eye doesn’t look above its own height’. At this moment in my life I sure hoped he was right. The __trouble_____ was that if they did see us we’d be, not like possums up a tree, but like rats up a drainpipe. There was no _escape_____ from here. P. 262
Fence, gasped, inched, cautious, possum, existed, escape, trouble, ugly, voices, focused
RESEARCH - Research author John Marsden. Who was he and why was he inspired to write Tomorrow, When the War Began. What other books has he written. Present your information in a poster, slideshow or video.
VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words, write the meaning using your own words. Manslaughter, Aggravated, Guerillas, Interject, Smug, Vicious, Emphatically, Scuffle, Sideswipe, Elated
Chapter 21
I __scrambled_______ back down the ladder. It seemed to have taken forever to get the rope out. All that time
I’d been __oblivious_______of the thunder just centimetres above my head, but now I noticed that it was starting to lessen. I could make out _individual_______ hooves. I broke out in an __instant____ sweat, found the loose end of the rope, grabbed it and ran. I had petrol all over me, had been _breathing______ petrol, and felt very odd as a result, as though I was floating across the grass. But it wasn’t a __pleasant________ float, more the sort of _______ that made me seasick. P.271
Instant, scrambled, oblivious, floating, breathing, individual, pleasant
Chapter 22
Well, we were pretty __desperate_______. We knew you’d be sitting there, in a lot of __danger_____, waiting for a
_signal_____ that wasn’t going to come. We got close to _panic_____ at that point, I guess. We had two choices – to go ahead with the _cattle______ and hope you’d be able to _react_____ in time, or to call it off. But we couldn’t call it off without telling you – that would have _left___ you in an impossible situation. That was a weakness in our planning – we _relied_____ too much on the walkie-talkies. That’s one thing I’ve learnt – don’t put too much _trust_____ in machines.’ P. 275
React, desperate, danger, trust, cattle, relied, signal, left, panic
Kevin was sitting against an old woolpress that was up _against______ the wall. Crouched beside him was Robyn, with one hand on his shoulder. Chris was _standing______ on his other side, looking down at Corrie. Corrie was ___lying___ across Kevin’s lap. Her eyes were __closed_____ and her head was back and there was no __colour____ in her face. As I stood there Kevin and Chris and Robyn all __turned_____ their faces towards me, but Corrie still didn’t open her eyes. I couldn’t move. It was as though I too had _joined______ the tableau. Then Kevin said, ‘She’s been shot Ellie’. P.280
colour, standing, lying, joined, against, closed, turned
Tomorrow, When The War Began: Epilogue
We’ve got to stick __together_______, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want
to end up here _alone_____, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such _terrible_______ things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be __evil___. But my heart still isn’t ___convinced________. I just hope we can _survive__________. P.284
Hell, terrible, together, survive, evil, convinced, alone
