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Ellie in TWTWB (The Narrator (Actions/Reactions (Actions (We see that when…
Ellie in TWTWB
The Narrator
Ellie is the narrator of everything that happens during the novel, so we can get a very clear idea of her as a person and her personality by the way she narrates, and the language that is used throughout the novel
Actions/Reactions
Because Ellie is the narator, we see exactly how she reacts and acts to situations throughout.
Reactions.
Ellie reacts calmly, but with brutal honesty to the situation at hand when the characters return from their camping trip. This can be seen in multiple quotes
Quote 1: "I remember hearing on the radio someone saying how prisoners of war had been so grateful for any little scrap of food when they were liberated at the end of World War Two, then two days later they were complaining because they got chicken noodle soup instead of tomato. That was just like us—and still is"
Quote 2: " I wouldn't allow myself to really consider the possibility that mum or dad—or anyone else—had been injured or killed. I mean, I knew in my logical mind that such things were logical outcomes of invasions and fights and wars, but my logical mind was in a little box"
This quote isn't necessarily
direct honesty, but it is Ellie realising that her [arents being dead is a possibility, and she is slowly preparing herself for that possibility
Quote 3: "My first thought was that the dogs were dead. That was the only explanation to why they were not running out to greet us".
Ellie also is extremely descriptive of whatever situation is at hand. This is very easy to pick up while reading the novel
"From under each wing flew two little darts, two horrible black things that grew as they approached us" Ellie- when she sees something in the sky.
"When we left the Mackenzies' we moved cautiously. For the first time, we acted like people in a war, like soldiers, like guerillas" Again Ellies way of describing things is shown, she used a similie and multiple adjectives just to describe how her and her friends were walking down the road
"The gum tree was at the base of a sheet of rock that stretched up to Wombegonoo's summit. It was an unusual tree, because it had multiple trunks, which must have parted form each other in its early days, so that now they grew out like petals on a poppy". Not only does Ellie describe very dark and important times, but even describes simple things in the same way, a tree in this case
Actions
We see that when the characters have returned home from their camping trip, and the crew have realised that they have returned to a war, Ellie creeps into a barn and blows up someone's lawnmower to attract the attention of nearby soldiers. Although this was a very smart thing to do, Ellie feels bad that someone's lawnmower has just been blown up, which shows her as a good person.
Ellie also steals a font loader, and drives it into town while didging bullets in order to save her friends. What this shows is that throughout the novel, as she gets more and more accustomed to the war situation she is in, she is willing to do more and more things that she would usually feel awful about in order to keep her and her friends safe.
Ellie also finds that she has romantic feelings for both Lee and Homer. She explores these and after a confrontation with Lee she decides that she likes him over Homer, and on their return from the Hermit's Hut, she kisses Lee.
The Only idocracy that can realle be found in Ellie is that she always seems to over describe everything, using similies and other such language features to drive home everything that she describes,