Chapter One- Tomorrow when the War Began

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of first person narration?
2. Why do you think Ellie needs to tell the story in chronological order?
3. Pick one interesting word from the chapter, find its meaning, and explain why it is interesting.
4. John Marsden foreshadows several events and characters in this chapter. Make three predictions based on the evidence in the text about what may occur later in the story.
5. What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers.
6. What set of skills do these characters have that convince their parents that they can ‘go bush’ independently. Find examples for three characters. 

1. There are many pros and cons to first person narration. Some cons are that you don’t get to hear other people’s perspectives, you can find it a bit boring (or maybe that’s just me). But there are some good things about it. For some people it can make it a lot easier to follow and read and it gives a side of the story that you may not hear if it was in the third person. 
2. Telling the story in chronological order may be the way that she has control of the situation or because Ellie may have a disorder where she has to have it in chronological order or it feels wrong
3. Ex-Murderer
   I’m not actually sure what this means as no one can be an ex-murderer. You either are a murderer or you aren’t. You can’t retire from being a murderer.
4. 1. Page 3, paragraph 1. It makes you think that something that could change history or an event that could help history. When Ellie started talking about the Hermit from Hell, it made me think that they may encounter him (or her.)
5. I think that Ellie may tell as story where everything is in a sort of order and tell everything as it happened; both information that is relevant and irrelevant to the story as a whole.
6. Homer didn’t convince his parents. They didn’t seem to care whether he went bush or not. Fi also didn’t convince her parents, Ellie’s mother did so instead and Robyn had help from Ellie to convince her father.