Dark Shadows

In Ender’s Game, I would like to be friends with Ender. Ender is the main character in the story, and I would want to be friends with him because he is strong, bright, decisive, and also independent. In the story, I read many times where Ender faced challenges, but even though it seemed impossible to do, he still managed to do his best and win. One example was when he was eight years old Ender transferred armies to a new army and became the commander for them. There were many challenges to…

Enders Game, a novel writer by Orson Scott Card, is a look into the experience of a great young mind in a time of peril. Andrew “Ender” Wiggins is chosen as a candidate to become a warrior trained to lead an Army in a time of need. He is chosen at the age of 6, but he is believed to have what it takes to grow and breed into becoming a significantly great leader in his society. This novel takes place in a futuristic world where the civilization and human race is in danger. At the beginning of the…

Ender’s Game is a 1985 military sci-fi novel written by Orson Scott Card, and like other novels, is accommodated by various themes and motifs. In this essay, I will cover one of the motifs that have been sited in the novel—games. In the novel, there are five games in total (excluding the one in the novel’s title): the Mind Game (also known as the Fantasy Game, or the Giant’s Drink), the Game and Battle Room, the simulator in Eros, and the game of “Astronauts and Buggers” that Peter and Ender…

Ender’s Game relation to modern day Far too often, human beings perform nefarious actions based on a prejudice that is either false or simply irrelevant. Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game is based off of preconceptions humans had on a foreign species known as “Buggers”. The main character Ender is assigned the task of working with other gifted children, like himself, to perform a complete genocide on this unfamiliar species. Ender learns much about the buggers and himself…

The book “Ender’s Game” has been a classic for a long time. It has a lot of action going on in the plot, but there is a deeper meaning. The primary theme of this book is to have compassion towards others, no matter how you feel about them. The book “Ender’s Game” starts with Ender having a normal life on earth, but then he gets his monitor, a device which allows government officials to see and hear what he does, removed. After that he was approached by Colonel Graff and went out to the battle…

“There is no teacher but the enemy.” Mazer Rackham, a character in Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, teaches this lesson to the main character of the story, Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. His statement has a prominent significance to the theme of the novel and it can be applied to several vexatious situations throughout Ender’s life. In Ender’s Game, Ender has several adversaries that he learns from, and each one teaches him something new. One of these enemies was his own brother, Peter Wiggin.…

One boy is a prodigy and the only one who is capable of saving the earth from war (Ender from Ender's game) Whereas, the other boy lost all his powers, thus being deported to a powerless colony, Is the reason behind a problem that can endanger the earth and all living beings but is the only one who can fix it (Taemon from Freakling). Both of the boys are heroes in the end although their stories seem different.. After reading Freakling by Lana Krumwiede and watching the film production of Ender’s…

The Dark Knight (2008) is the second of the three movies in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” trilogy. The first movie being Batman Begins (2005), and the most recent movie being The Dark Knight Rises (2012). The trilogy follows the story of a young Bruce Wayne up to the developed Batman we know today. Nolan 's outstanding creativity allowed him to take a completely different view on what was once just a children 's comic book. Also, the performances of all the actors were spectacular, but…

The Gothic Genre and “The Raven” The word “Gothic” usually suggests adolescents in dark makeup and loud music. In literature though, “Gothic” means something much different. The Gothic genre sets itself apart from other literary genres in many ways. Gothic works usually take place in a strange, mysterious setting and have themes of extreme mental and/or physical isolation. The Gothic genre is also known for the sentiment of the frightening unfamiliar, that is also strangely familiar. The…

Ender’s lesson In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, unfriendly aliens mounted an attack on Earth. After repelling the buggers, Colonel Graff creates a military school aimed to find the next great commander. Finding interest into Ender, he is recruited to battle school. Here, students study strategy, tactics, military history and goes deeper into math and science. At school, Ender finds himself at the top spot, which impresses Colonel Graff. Ender graduate from battle school and is…