Ender's Game

In the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, the ideas between protagonist and antagonists vary because each type of living being on the planet, Lusitania, is going against each other for the greater good of their own species. The humans are dying off from the descolada, a disease that the pequeninos, an alien species that are structured like large pigs who can walk and talk, need in order to survive and move on to their third life as “fathertrees.” And the humans are trying to tame this descolada…

exhausting. Even though Ender’s Game is set in the future, child labor is still evident even though not necessarily recognized. Child labor is an implicit theme and human rights issue throughout…

hero's journey, was based on his idea of a monomyth. Which sparked the idea of a young boy starting a journey at a very young age, by the well known Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card was inspired by this in order to create the award winning novel, Ender’s Game. This novel is about a boy named Ender and how he began his hero’s journey at the age of six to later on in his training to be tricked into doing something so immense, which he did not anticipate would have happened so soon.Andrew “Ender”…

In recent years, teachers have been finding creative ways to reinforce the lessons taught. The most common method happens to be viewing movies in class. The Martian is a fascinating film about the adventures of Mark Watney as he is abandoned on Mars during a failed exploration. He is left with only limited amount of food and water, as well as the knowledge in botany and mechanical engineering. The movie is an adaptation of the book, The Martian, written by Andy Weir which presents you with…

Readers can take many different things from different forms of literacy. A form of literacy that is commonly read are books. Three books that benefit and enhance the abilities of people are “Touching Spirit Bear”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and “Enders Game”. Literature helps people understand how things work, and helps people become better overtime. Without literature, there is no human complexity or sympathy. Literature enhances our ability to see and imagine human complexity. “Touching…

56.General Pace comes to the Battle School because he is concerned about Ender’s conflict with the other students. He wants Graff to do something about Ender’s conflict with Bonzo and the other kids. But Graff does not want to help Ender because he wants Ender to take care of his own problems. An evidence quote from the text is “If we transfer Bonzo ahead of schedule, he’ll know that we saved him,” (Scott, Card202). This shows that Graff does not want to help Ender he wants Ender to learn how to…

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. There are multiple ways that the adults in power manipulate Ender for their personal agenda and slowly break him, and the damage and impact they leave certainly shows the reader the selfish goals of adults psychologically hurting Ender…

What if you lived in a world without data? It might be difficult to complete certain tasks such as writing report cards. In the futuristic novel, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, uses information and data as something very valuable for two characters- Peter and Valentine. In the novel, words and information serve as ammuntion, influence, and deception for the characters. Peter uses words and information as ammunition in his conspirary to control the world. With Val's help they can "say the…

Ender’s Game: Book vs. Movie Ender’s Game is a lot like high school, in the sense that Ender, Andrew Wiggin, is always trying to figure out what his identity is. High school is a constant struggle of trying to fit in perfectly, but also trying to figure out who you are as a person, similar to Ender in the story Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game is about a boy named Ender Wiggin who was selected, at the age of six, to attend battle school in an attempt to help save the human race from their enemy,…

Orson Scott Card is the author of the 1985 science fiction novel, Ender’s Game. Card was born in Washington state in 1951. His family moved around a lot when he was young, but he finished high school in Utah in 1969. He later went to college at the University of Utah and got his bachelor's degree in theater, where he sparked an interest in writing. After receiving his degree, Card then briefly ran a repertory theater. Being raised Mormon, his first writing job was with the official magazine of…