In “Tomorrow When the War Began”, Ellie Linton’s character changes significantly from an innocent, ‘typical teenager’ to someone who “stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming someone else, a more …show more content…
An important action of Ellie was when she blows up a lawnmower and kills three soldiers in order to escape from Mrs Alexander’s garden, which shows the theme of courage, because even though she was reluctant to, Ellie was forced herself to kill them to ensure her and her friend’s safety. The theme of survival is also presented when Ellie think back to when she killed the soldiers – “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?” Ellie learns that is they were to survive this war, they would have to do anything it takes - even if it meant having to kill soldiers. Loyalty is a theme that is prevalent throughout all the characters in the novel, but Ellie in particular shows this theme the most. Ellie presents this theme by not abandoning Robyn and Lee when they didn’t show up at the allocated place they were meant to meet up at. Although they had to leave first, Ellie still went back to find them. The ways these themes are presented by Ellie are interesting because it shows many aspects of Ellie’s character and personality at the same