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Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend - College Essays

Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend

Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series
consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and
The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the
middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and
Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their district. They
find their way into a remote basin surrounded by dangerous cliffs and
difficult terrain, where they are completely safe and cut off from the rest
of the world. When the teenagers return to their homes, they find that all
the families in the district were abducted and locked into the show grounds
by armed soldiers who are taking over ...

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have to attack the airbase themsleves_

I think that this book is as much about adventure and survival as it is
about emotions, friendships and relationships. The book is written as the
diary of the unofficial leader of the group and she speaks a lot about her
thoughts, her relationships with the other members of the group and of her
emotions about what she was forced to do during the course of the war.

"I was determined I wasn't going to get angry, so I ignored that. I didn't
blame him in a way. If only I could have understood what was going on in my
own mind_ but I found that difficult at the best of times."

"It was nothing to do with Lee. I still liked him a lot. I'd got over those
feelings I'd had ages ago, the negative feelings towards him. So it wasn't
that. I thought maybe it had something to do with the boy in New Zealand,
whose name I realised with a shock I'd forgotten. It would come back to me,
no doubt about that, but for the moment I couldn't think of it at all. And
I ...

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Added: 7/5/2008 01:31:25 AM
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