Chapter 1: Third I. SUMMARY The first chapter begins with two people talking about a boy and if he is ready to help save the world from buggers. They don’t seem sure because of there past results with his brother and sister. Then the story goes to Ender and how he is happy to get a monitor the government uses to see through his eyes out of his neck because it made him an outcast. His brother Peter especially hates him because Ender had the monitor one year longer and Ender thinks with the monitor gone Peter would be nicer but he realizes Peter wont change.…
Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean. Nothing is his fault. Stilson already lies defeated on the ground, yet Ender can kick him in the face until he dies, and still remain the good guy. Ender can drive bone fragments into Bonzo’s brain and then kick his dying body in the crotch, yet the entire focus is on Ender’s suffering. For an adolescent ridden with rage and self-pity, who feels himself abused (and what adolescent doesn’t?), what’s not to like about this…
Samurai Champloo - This anime is significance to me as it reminds me of the creative ways that two distinct cultures can come together to make unique pieces of work. Ayn Rand’s Anthem and The Fountainhead - These books are significance to me lately as I found it interesting the way Ayn Rand used storytelling to present her complex ideology. Also the books make you question your personal beliefs regarding what is a individual ? Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken.…
The historical non-fiction book I chose to read was Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which was written by Jared Diamond. After reading the descriptions of the historical non-fiction books, the description of Collapse engrossed me the most. I was interested in the book because it explained how and why some of the most famous ancient and modern societies just fell apart and collapsed. In Jared Diamond’s book, he talks about societies that collapsed such as the ancient societies of the Maya, the Greenland Norse, the Easter Islanders and about modern societies such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and more. In the book, he analyzes the falls of these societies and explains their collapses by using his “five-point framework.”…
When immigrants decide to travel to America, they are faced with many challenges. Yuri Herrera, a Hispanic author, uses these challenges to inspire his short stories. In his stories, “The Objects” and “The Last Ones” Herrera writes about crossing the border, social hierarchy, and being used by others. Herrera’s story, “The Objects,” is about an office building, and at night its workers turn into inhuman animals and objects. The main characters in this story are the narrator and Rafa.…
Three Books to Save Fahrenheit 451 is written by Ray Bradbury, it was a dystopian novel written in the 1950s with great diversity. It is a novel that truly makes you think. In this book, people aren’t allowed to read and if they do then they face horrid consequences. Everybody just watches television and listens to radios, what importance could they be?…
The book I read this summer was QB1. I relay enjoyed it because it was about football and about Texas and about the University of Texas. I recommend this book if you like reading about sports. Also I really love the author of this book Mike Lupica because some of his other books are really amazing. The Other books I have read by Mike Lupica are Travel Team, Million Dollar Throw, True Legend these books were very inspiring for me as a Basketball Player.…
Violence is a behavior that involves physical abuse, intended to hurt or cause damage to others. Many people use violence because it is in the nature of humanity, and it is something that is released when people feel anger. The novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, has a drastic amount of violence throughout most of the novel. Children are trained at a battle school to defeat an alien race that caused damage to humanity in the past. It is shocking to adults that such a book is claimed to be a children’s book.…
No book or movie is ever alike. This is shown in the book “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card and the Enders Game movie by Gaven Hood, where the book and movie had many similarities but as well had many differences. In the novel Ender is portrayed as a very different kid after he gets to battle school; however this is not shown in the movie. Another difference would be how Lock and Demosthenes were not mentioned at all in the movie, yet had a huge role in the book, and the final would be the endings for both the movie and book as well as Enders reaction to what’s going on in the end. These three reasons show how the movie is very different from the book.…
Adults are the ones who raise us, teach us, and prepare us for the lives we will lead. There are two sides to a coin and we can see this in humans as good and bad. There is no 100% good or evil in a person, but the actions they commit can say a lot about them. It’s human nature to worry about our individual gain first before we consider the effect on others. The theme of adult manipulation of young children is the backbone of the Ender’s Game.…
A book that strongly influenced me would be On Writing by Stephen King. Truthfully speaking, I initially picked up the book because of its title. I hated reading because it was always a requirement and rarely for leisure. I intended that by reading this book, it would improve my writing techniques. But, I was shaken by how much I enjoyed the book and the art of memoirs.…
Has anyone ever read a book that changed everyone's opinion on the world? People begin to think and question the original beliefs they were taught. Society has begun to reflect on these new ideas through everything that they do. After reading Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, people will have a different outlook on afterlife, and begin to express these new beliefs through architecture and art.…
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved" by Mother Teresa. It explains the value of love. Being unloved is one of most unfair things in the world and can even make you think death is better consequence. In the books, Ender's Game and The Giver, they talk about love, compassion, responsibilities and how they're abandoned by the society because they're special. Ender is a third and he’s an outcast.…
What would happen if an alien species attacked Earth 50 years ago, and we managed to fight them off temporarily? The book “Ender’s Game,” by Orson Scott Card, describes exactly that. The story is about a boy named Ender in those times, and one of the most significant decisions that he makes throughout the book is agreeing to train in battle school because he would protect Valentine, get away from Peter, and he was literally born for it. The book starts out when Ender is 6 years old, and he goes to school like everyone else.…
Two books have been inspirational pavers in how I see the world and how I want to improve it. These books are very different in the content that they portray but similar in their themes of perception. The first book that has developed me as a person is “The Great Gatsby.” A second book is “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Without these books the evolvement of my understandings would be weaker than they are now.…