Significant Setting- Tomorrow When the War Beagn
Describe at least one significant setting. Explain how the setting helped you understand one or more key ideas in the text as a whole.
The astonishing adventurous novel written by John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began, has a significant setting. The setting is known as Hell. Hell is described as a beautiful place despite the name it up holds. It is significant because Ellie and her friends were camping out there when the invasion of Wirrawee begun. Ellie and her friends soon made ‘Hell’ their new dwelling as it is isolated and safe, which is another reason why it is significant. The Last reason is because it is the place where they all became more mature and transformed into ‘soldiers’. It is significant to the text as a whole for the reason that it helped to understand the key ideas of safety as well as transformation.
The setting Hell, is described by Ellie as a beautiful place. It is hidden from sight and can only be seen if you go down into it. Along the way downhill there is a bridge that is beautifully built. It crosses the creek in a large clearing and is about a metre wide and five metres long. The more altitude lost to reach the surface of ‘Hell’, the more quite, shady, cool and damp it gets. There are no flowers just shades of green and brown. Ellie describes these shades “…more shades of green and brown the English language knows about.” The surface is deep in leave litter. The clearing is the size of a hockey filed, if not bigger, however it is not much clearing as the clearing is studded with trees, three beautiful eucalyptuses and quite a few suckers and saplings. The creek is wider and flatter where Ellie and her friends are, “…but the water is freezing cold.”
The first reason why the setting is significant to the text is because Ellie and her friends were peacefully in ‘Hell’ when their hometown Wirrawee was invaded. The weekend of Commemoration Day Ellie and her six friends decided to camp out in ‘Hell’. Little did they know their
The astonishing adventurous novel written by John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began, has a significant setting. The setting is known as Hell. Hell is described as a beautiful place despite the name it up holds. It is significant because Ellie and her friends were camping out there when the invasion of Wirrawee begun. Ellie and her friends soon made ‘Hell’ their new dwelling as it is isolated and safe, which is another reason why it is significant. The Last reason is because it is the place where they all became more mature and transformed into ‘soldiers’. It is significant to the text as a whole for the reason that it helped to understand the key ideas of safety as well as transformation.
The setting Hell, is described by Ellie as a beautiful place. It is hidden from sight and can only be seen if you go down into it. Along the way downhill there is a bridge that is beautifully built. It crosses the creek in a large clearing and is about a metre wide and five metres long. The more altitude lost to reach the surface of ‘Hell’, the more quite, shady, cool and damp it gets. There are no flowers just shades of green and brown. Ellie describes these shades “…more shades of green and brown the English language knows about.” The surface is deep in leave litter. The clearing is the size of a hockey filed, if not bigger, however it is not much clearing as the clearing is studded with trees, three beautiful eucalyptuses and quite a few suckers and saplings. The creek is wider and flatter where Ellie and her friends are, “…but the water is freezing cold.”
The first reason why the setting is significant to the text is because Ellie and her friends were peacefully in ‘Hell’ when their hometown Wirrawee was invaded. The weekend of Commemoration Day Ellie and her six friends decided to camp out in ‘Hell’. Little did they know their