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Chapter 18-22

Chapter 18 What are the three worthwhile options homer puts to the group?

Chapter 19 What do Homer, Lee, Ellie and Fi decide to do when they go into Wirrawee? How are they going to distract the guards? What makes Ellie think the soldiers walking past them are professionals? What do the soldiers fire at in the bushes? What are some clues that the group is starting to think “more like soldiers”? What does Homer suggest they do when the group goes up to the Heron? What are his strategies to put his plan into action? Do you think the plan will work? What problems do you think they might encounter?

Chapter 20 What confuses Ellie when she tries all the trucks in Curr's Blue Star fuel yard? What enormous danger do Ellie and Fi encounter on their way to the bridge? Why is Ellie nervous about being paired with Fi? What is true courage according to Ellie? Were her concerns about Fi realised? Explain. What is a clue that Fi’s relationship with Homer is becoming serious? What problems do Fi and Ellie encounter on their mission to bring the tanker to the appropriate place under the bridge? How do they deal with these problems?

Chapter 21 How does Ellie lay the petrol trail? How do Ellie and Fi escape from the scene and what do they admit to doing? What is it that primarily attracts Fi to Homer? What are Fi’s intentions regarding Homer? Why does this surprise Ellie? How do Ellie and Fi feel as they are leaving the scene on their motorbikes Why do you think the group decided to blow up the bridge? How is this exploit different from the other exploits the group has been on? (ie blowing up lawnmower, rescuing Lee, going into town to check things out…)

Chapter 22 Where do Ellie and fi meet Homer and Lee? What does Homer do when he finds that Ellie and Fi are safe? Where does Kevin take Corrie? Why? What do Ellie and the others see in Ellie’s shed when they ride up her driveway? What does Ellie compare this scene with? Why do you think she does this? What does Homer suggest the group does? What does Kevin decide to do? What does this reveal about him?

Epilogue Where are Kevin and Corrie when she is wounded? What is Ellie’s concern about her story? How is her story the same as what the Hermit left in his box? How has Ellie’s view of Kevin changed from what she thought of him in the beginning? What do you think will happen to Corrie and Kevin?