Homer

Homer is a character in the book "Tomorrow, When the War Began" who starts off as a bully or a kid that couldn't be trusted. But, later on in the book he takes on a leadership role in a difficult situation. Homer was a completely changed man once the war started and I think that he changed because school and being a children isn't very serious but when the war started he thought it was very serious and decided that life wasn't just a big game and a joke. I think that the author wrote it like that because I think that maybe the author was kind of a bully when he was young, but now he knows that it wasn't right and he changed his life because of that and he is now very kind and nice. The author's name is John Marsden and he is a great author but I don't really like his style.

Homer is an outrageous kind of guy that would always try to crash a party. He was in Grade 8 at his school and always got detention for doing things that a normal bully would do. He lives down the road from Ellie, and they were friends and used to go to each others houses. Homer was from a family that didn't care about his future and his family wasn't a very nice family. It was a hard life that Homer lived in and I think that is why Homer isn't a very nice kid and a bully.

Couldn't Do It!!!!!! True Story????

In the book I'm reading right now called, "Tomorrow, When the War Began", there's a group of young friends, who are getting chased by army men because there is a War going on. But, as they are getting chased, there are gun shots whizing past their heads, and they are completely unarmed with nothing but their clothes on their back. I think that if I was in that situation, I would just give up because I wouldn't want to get killed. Even though I would be captured and would have to be a prisoner, I don't think it would be as bad as getting killed. But, I know why the author wrote the book like this because it makes much more exciting and interesting, and you don't want to put the book down. I don't know if I would write the book like that because I'm not a fantastic writer like he is, and I don't get paid to write books.

I don't know if "Tomorrow, When the War Began" is a true story, though, but it easily could be. I think there are somethings that are true, like how there is a World War, and the city of Wirrawee, that really did happen. But, I also think somethings aren't true like that whole group of friends, and the forest that the city calls "Hell". But, all in all the story of it I think is not a true story because I find things in the book unrealistic and fake. But, I do think that some other things are true. Who knows, maybe the whole book and story is true!