The day the war began

TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGANUSEFUL QUOTESTHEME:“Writing it down is important to us...recording what we’ve done, in words, on paper, it’s got to be our way of telling ourselves that we mean something, that we matter. That the things we’ve done have made adifference.”“We’d thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn’t have to walk into a place to invade it. Even Hell was not immune.”“Hell wasn’t anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with people. Maybe Hell was people.”“I still couldn’t comprehend that this might be a matter of life and death, that this was the most serious thing I’d ever been involved in.”“That was the first moment at which I started to realise what true courage was. Up until then, everything had been unreal, like a night-stalking game at a school camp. To come out of the darkness now would be to show courage of a type that ‘’d never had to show before, never even known about. I had to search my own mind and body to find if there was a new part of me somewhere.”“At that moment I stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming someone else, a more complicated capable person, a force to be reckoned with even, not just a polite obedient kid.”“This was the new reality of our lives. I got the shakes a bit, but there was no time for that.”“This is war now and normal rules don’t apply. These people have invaded our land, locked up our families...The moment they left their country to comehere they knew what they were doing. They’re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us.”“We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. Now we know we’re not, and like you said, we’ll never feel safe again, and so it’s bye-bye innocence. It’s beennice knowing you but you’re gone now.”JUSTIFICATION“We’ve got all this land and all these resources, and yet there’s countries a crow’s spit away that have people packed in like battery hens. You can’t blame them for resenting it, and we haven’t done much to reduce any imbalances.” (Robyn) “It’s just not right.” (Kevin)
CHARACTER:Lee: “He seemed avery serious guy, very into his music, but I just thought he was interesting.”Robyn: “I always thought of Robyn as fairly quiet and serious...but I knew there was more to her than that.She liked to win.”Fi: “She looked like she’d never done any hard work in her life, never been in the sun, never got her hands dirty, and that was all true.”Kevin: “He was known for having a big ego and he like to take the credit for everything...but I still thought that he was the best thing that ever happened in Corrie’s life”Homer: “Homer was wild, outrageous. Hedidn’t care what he did or what anyone thought.” “Homer always seemed to be in trouble.”“He was like a brother. Being neighbours we’d grown up together.”“He’d always encouraged people to believe he had no feelings.”“Homer was becoming more surprising with every passing hour. It was getting hard to remember that this fast-thinking guy, who’d just spent fifteen minutes getting us laughing and talking and feeling good again, wasn’t even trusted to hand out the books at school.”“We were starting to recognise Homer’s leadership. He didn’t seem to notice, just began talking naturally, as though he had it all worked out.”“That was Homer’s genius. He combined action with thought, and he planned ahead. He sensed, I think, that inaction was our enemy.”“Homer had an ability to put himself into the minds of the soldiers, to think their thoughts and to see through their eyes.”“’Aren’t you meant to be just a wild and crazy guy?’ (Robyn, to Homer) He laughed but then went straight back to being serious.”Ellie: “It was hard for me to believe that I, plain old Ellie, nothing special about me, middle of the road in every way, had probably just killed three people. It was too big a thing for me to get my mind around.”“Truth to tell I was feeling more confident and relaxed. I always prefer action; I’m happier when I’m doing things.”“My fear came from love. Love for my friends. I didn’t want to let them down. If I did, they would die.”“God, I can’t believe the things we’ve done.”