Enders Game by Orson Scott Cars is about a boy named Andrew "Ender" Wiggins. Ender is the youngest of three Genius Children in his family, and both Peter and Valentine have worn the same monitor that Ender wore. Though neither had the monitor for as long, and neither were selected to battle school. Battle School is the Military Run training facility the trains soldiers from the time they are children to be efficient and effective soldier for the international fleet. Enders success in being selected to train at battle school angers Peter, and upsets loving Valentine.
In “Ender’s Game” Orson Scott Card places a young man named Ender in a program designed to train children for battle, the group (a.k.a dragon unit) he is put into is known to be the group of boys who are the weakest and are not the best soldiers, in fact the leaders of the program are forced to shut down that unit seeing that young men who are put into the unit would fall victim of stereotypes and fail to perform to the best of their abilities. Ender is the leader of the dragon unit, so he is in charge of envisioning new tactics to receive a victory over the opponent. While in training Ender and his team receive notice that they are to battle in the upcoming hours. They are excited for the battle as they know they are ready, seeing that the team spends coupons hours of their day training, when the doors open to let them into the battle arena Ender quickly has his tactic to beat the other team, and he does. Within a couple of minutes, Ender destroys the opponent and his team still has an unheard number of people left standing on his team.
Ender’s Game v.s Ender’s Game movie After I read Ender’s Game I watched the movie and I can’t say the movie was bad, but many things in the movie were not relevant at all to the book. The movie was way too short and they fast forwarded too many things. They also dumbed down the twists like when Ender destroys the Buggers when he thought it was a simulation game. It even ditched all the somewhat important things. They must have cut out over 2 hours of plot between every new scene.
He becomes the top soldier and commands his own army by the age of 11. Political exploitation of children is a big theme in these books. In Ender’s Game, they use kids as soldiers. The use of children for political advantage in this book is the most noticeable part of the book. They raise kids so they can go kill other people.
This chapter reminds me of how I used to handle problem in real life like Ender that trying to defense myself but sometimes I accidentally hurting someone that even I don’t realize it, like how Ender defense himself so that the problem will not occurs again but he ended up hurting someone in order for his goal to occurs. I dislike this chapter because of how it’s like a set up that was planned by the teachers, that’s why when they fight together in the bathroom teachers was there to help Ender, but they just comes in when the fight was almost over and that Bonzo is injured. “Now the teachers would come. The medical staff. To dress the wounds of Ender’s enemy.
The Manipulation of Ender The book, Ender’s Game, is a book full of interesting events. A six year old boy named Ender Wiggin goes to Battle School, where he is continually tested and trained to become an elite commander. He succeeds at Battle School and eventually goes to Command School, where he leads his army to victory over the bugger troops. Because of this, the world is safe from being destroyed by the buggers. Even though Ender and his fleet are successful in defeating the buggers, Ender’s intelligence and skill is taken advantage of throughout the book.
Ender’s Game takes place during a time of war with an alien species called the Buggers. Mankind’s only hope at destroying the enemy lies in the hands of a child named Ender Wiggin. Ender must endure brutal training and preparation in order to defeat the Buggers when the time comes. This wonderful story is told in both book and movie form. However,
This is another statement that I see often inn the book and agree have with. On this subject kessel writes “The extreme situation Card has constructed to isolate and abuse Ender guarantees our sympathy. After Ender is manipulated into entering Battle School, (he’s brought there by lies severing him from Valentine, his only protector) his abuse continues, deliberately fostered by Graff. On the shuttle up to the orbiting school Graff singles Ender out for praise for the sole purpose that the other recruits will resent him.
The novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is compelling with its characterizations and futurist plot line. Written in 1985, the story shows a boy, only 6 years of age named Ender and his journey through battle school with his companions and altercations with enemies to defeat the supposed “threat” of the buggers: alien invaders. A common practice by the characters in the novel is lying and deceiving to gain power; oddly however, the lies and deceit are more useful than telling the truth. Card shows this theme through the motif of power and how those above Ender such as Graff, Valentine and Mazer Rackham lied to him to help Ender gain power.
In the book, it is made completely clear that the system of both the Battle School and Command School are breaking Ender down, ultimately demonstrated by Ender being completely bedridden after the Third Invasion due to everything he’s endured. This also happens with the movie’s presentation of the characters, with more characters being sympathetic to Ender. This completely overrides a plot point in the book,
"…she squeezed his knee…where he had always been most ticklish. But almost at the same moment, he caught her wrist in his hand. His grip was very strong, even though his hands were smaller than hers and his own arms were slender and tight. For a moment he looked dangerous; then he relaxed." () Unknowingly Ender has surrendered to the virtuous boy he once was in exchange for the arduous adolescent he is now, confirming what the Battle School destined him to become.
After going into space for battle training, he becomes isolated from the other students immedetaly. Ender overcoming challenges finally begins to be accepted by the other students, only to be transferred and isolated again.
However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.
In both excerpts from The Jungle and Fast Food Industry, the authors, Upton Sinclair and Eric Schlosser, attempt to expose corrupt businesses, specifically the meatpacking industry, and aim to uncover the unsanitary and inhuman conditions processed within this industry. Sinclair, in his novel, The Jungle, illustrates the horrifying conditions in the industry through Jonas’ description of rotting meat, as well as the conditions both the meat and workers went through. In his novel, Sinclair explains that the stored meat had “water from leaky roofs … drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it” (Sinclair, U. “Chapter 14” The Jungle, 1906). Through this vivid imagery, Sinclair explains the condition the meat is in, in order to acknowledge
In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, she uses many symbols to convey the meaning and themes of the book. In my opinion, the main theme in this book is the question: What is good and what is evil? Using symbols in writing creates meaning. In this novel Lee uses the snowman or mud man as a symbol for racism, Aunt Alexandra as a symbol for sexism, and the mockingbird as a symbol of losing innocence. Without using these symbols, and the many symbols that are in the novel, the book might not have been as thought provoking.
