It Is Leadership and the Ability to Cope with Change That Helps the Characters in Tomorrow, When the War Began to Survive. Discuss.

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In Tomorrow, When the War Began, the characters experience a number of difficulties to cope with the changes that occur and in order for them to survive, they use teamwork and leadership. We see in john Marsden’s novel the characters start off by just living an ordinary life. They are a normal group of teenagers in their last year of school planning to just go out and be separated from civilization. Not expecting much more than a fun time away to get to know each other. Soon enough we see how their whole lives get turned around when they are first put to the test of choosing between going back and helping everyone or just helping themselves. At many different stages they each have to face a leadership role. John Marsden shows the reader that Leadership is an important quality in life and is needed in any, and every, situation. Marsden also conveys the theme change. Change is when people have things happen to their circumstances and are forced to think or believe differently. Change was important because it was a dominant theme in the novel as the characters – young teenagers – were forced to cope with the devastation of their lives and their environment caused by war. The theme of change is also important because it is something that affects us all at some time in our lives. We never know what the outcome will be for us, and just hope that our personal skills will make us strong enough to cope with whatever life brings us. John Marsden shows the theme of leadership all throughout the book. When they came back from hell, a little clearing below quite a bit of bush in tailors stitch, they arrive at Ellie’s house only to find that her pets are dead and there is no one around. They find a fax at her house from her dad, he thought that something was going wrong at the showgrounds, and that’s when they concluded that they had been invaded. When it was dark, Ellie,

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