Character- Fi (Fiona Maxwell)

Character of Fi

Tomorrow When the War Began, includes many characters. The seven main characters that have been featured in the film are Ellie Linton, Homer Yannos, Fiona Maxwell, Lee Takkam, Robyn Mathers, Corrie Mackenzie and Kevin Holms. This particular group of friends go camping in a distant valley called Hell. They expect to return home and find everything as it was before, but they couldn’t be more wrong. 

Fi (Fiona Maxwell), knows little to nothing about camping or wildlife. She is very modest and indulged  in her life. She is quite classy and worries about what kind of nail polish and outfits to wear. but when her friends invite her on a camping trip, she adds innocence to the group. From the beginning of the novel, John Marsden, had created a character that was the least capable in the group of doing anything, and designed her to be someone who is protected due to her proper  upbringing.  Through the use of humour, metaphors, rhetorical questions, exaggeration and inflated language, John Marsden constructed a character that readers would enjoy.

Whilst Fi makes each day of her life count and is worry-free at the beginning of the novel, her packing for the trip is strongly demonstrated as she is the only one that initially thinks of getting lost. “Fi I said, at last, ‘just what have you got in that pack?” “What Corrie told me. Shirts, jumpers, gloves, socks, undies, towel.” She looked a bit embarrassed. “Pyjamas and a dressing gown, you never know what will happen.”  During the beginning, readers should get the impression, that Fi is not much of a leader, but a follower. However, during the middle of the war, John Marsden explained  Fi’s personality as weak, but as the group of teenagers discuss their plans of fighting back, Fi’s talents begin to show.  Even though Fi is constantly fearing for the worst, she keeps fighting and her perception.  ‘Let’s assume something else, Let’s assume that what we’re saying is absolutely ridiculous’.

John Marsden, has authored many books, that has made the reader entertained, but the most significant power is how John Marsden, brings his characters to life. Fi and her small group of teenage friends, have had their lives destroyed by the war that takes place in their hometown of Wiwaree. Fi had to make decisions for herself and  respond to she’d done, by her actions, just as any of us would. 

By the end of the novel, Fi has definitely changed in personality. She becomes less naïve and develops into a more mature person than she ever was. Fi definitely enjoyed the environment and people around her even when she offers to help with cattle. “How do I get a big mob of cattle to do what you want in the middle of the night?” Fi asked. I remembered she’d wanted an answer to this question before. She was serious about becoming a rural”. Fi and her friends, have now become warriors.

Fi's realization