characteristics of a true hero apply to Ender Wiggin? The answer is yes. First‚ and probably the most obvious‚ Ender saved the human race. Not only did he end up brilliantly destroying the bugger army‚ he knew from the beginning of his battle school days that he had been hand-picked to save humanity. He had to perform for years in school and most importantly‚ his ‘final examination’ under this immense pressure of knowing that he was their last hope of survival. However‚ Ender did the wrong thing for the right
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Ender’s Game is a science-fiction novel that follows a child named Ender‚ and his story on being trained from a early age to be a military captian to fight “buggers” that have been encountered in space by humans while exploring the universe‚ as he struggles to find logical reasoning as why all of the training is happening to him PLOT Far into the future‚ where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly‚ humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak
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and rainy day in my hometown of Autumn Burrow. Damp and mellow was what my town felt like today. Autumn Burrow’s the place where everyone works day and night‚ and urban myths and rumors of weird encounters with weird creatures. Such as vagabonds‚ shadows‚ or any other type of phenomena. I never have actually seen a ghost roaming around town‚ but it would be a weird experience if I ever saw one. Today‚ I plan to make a trip to Autumn Burrow’s deep forest to find even more mysterious species‚ and to
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and your misperceptions could cause you to become enemies. The same concept applies in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card‚ but the outcome is devastating. Ender Wiggin‚ a six year old genius‚ battled everyday with the conflict brought on by his hateful brother‚ Peter‚ who did everything in his power to weaken Ender. The tension heightened when Ender remained the only one of three children to be monitored by the government. Because of this monitoring‚ the government took notice of his analytical mind
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Firstly‚ the battle room makes the children enemies with another army. While Dink is having a conversation with Ender at the dining hall‚ Dink suggests: “ ‘They get us to fight each other‚ to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves trying to beat each other…’ ” (Card 143). The battleroom is a simulation of
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Enders Game Spears S-Social 1. Ender learns to destroy his enemies once and for all because of his environment: “I have to win this now‚ and for all time‚ or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”(7) 2. Ender is isolated so that he learns to rely on himself: “His isolation can’t be broken.” (38) 3. Ender is sped through the system to mature him more quickly‚ so that he becomes a better commander: “Young as he is‚ we’ve never had a boy better prepared for command.” (154)
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infer has happened to society to get to this point? 2. One of the themes of Ender’s Game is the isolation of the gifted child. How is Ender isolated? Is the isolation Col. Graff puts him in justified? 3. Is genocide‚ or in the case of Ender’s Game where an entire alien race is annihilated‚ xenocide‚ ever justified? Was the xenocide of the buggers inevitable? 4. Does Ender redeem himself from his violent actions towards humans? What about the buggers? Why or why not? (Notice this is a two part question)
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the cost of his own sanity. Another aspect that made Ender a good leader was his drive to be‚ not only good‚ but also superior. When he confided in Bean‚ he stated that he felt he could not lose any of the battles‚ for some reason that he did not reveal. This drive was so ingrained in Ender’s personality that he either did not understand it himself‚ or was so personal that he didn’t wish to reveal it to even his closest companions. This gave Ender a certain fervor that obviously boosted the rest of
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There have been many times in human history were empires have crumbled because they lost their way. Whether it is because of corruption in politics‚ ideological views or religion‚ society has had its’ share of setbacks. Over time‚ new civilizations have sprung up out of the ashes of old ones‚ and sometimes these new civilizations are all the better for it. Today’s society has made the same mistakes‚ which has cause us to lose our way‚ and the only way we can truly regain it is to live outside our
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Poetry Book By: Aaron Bastian English Period. 4 Mrs. Seeck 1/09/13 Speaker For The Dead written by: Orson Scottcard My Depart By: Ender Wiggin The time has come for me to go To leave this place I have called home It’s beautiful snowy landscape of mountains and seas where the cold of the climate is outdone only by the warmth of togetherness It will soon be but a memory the thought of abandoning my beloved Valentine for whom I care for like no other forces me to remember
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