Darkness, Be My Friend :: Darkness, Be My Friend

Darkness, Be My Friend   Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsdens series consisting of Tomorrow, When the contend Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven five-year-old people ar thrown into the middle of a violent fight zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping pillowcase to a unconnected part of their district. They find their way into a remote basin surrounded by dangerous cliffs and difficult terrain, where they are only safe and cut off from the rest of the world. When the teenagers return to their homes, they find that completely the families in the district were abducted and locked into the show grounds by armed soldiers who are taking over Australia. After finding this, they go on to practice numerous terrorist activities around the district to hamper the enemys progress. These including blowing up a pair on a major convoy route, attacking an important alco ve used for supplies and in Darkness, Be My Friend, the teenagers set out from New Zealand to help oneself a small group of elite New Zealand soldiers attack the invigorated airbase that has been built in their town. In this book, the New Zealand soldiers disappear without a draw and the teenagers have to attack the airbase themsleves_   I think that this book is as such(prenominal) 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 diffuse 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 sort of the war.   "I was determined I wasnt going to get angry, so I ignored that. I didnt blame him in a way. If only I could have understood what was going on in my own mind_ notwithstanding I found that difficult at the best of times."   &quo tIt was nothing to do with Lee. I still liked him a lot. Id got over those feelings Id had ages ago, the negative feelings