Ender's Shadow

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…

intelligent child at the Battle School, but is also a talented strategist which sets him apart from the other children. Ender wants to be a good person and tries to avoid violence but is unable to in some of the situations that are presented to him. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, it teaches readers about the idea that no one is all good or all evil, what matters are the person’s intentions; which is shown through characterization…

Walking in Circles – Talking in Socratic Circles (1-Pager #3) In class today, we were put in a large Socratic Circles for Ender’s Game. This was done to encourage critical thinking. It was comprised of approximately fifteen students. We discussed the chapters that were assigned. We were encouraged to use sagacious discussion to develop strategic questions. Specifically, we used figurative language such as e=mc2 and connected the purpose of the author. Ender was promoted to a Commander.…

“I could kill you like this.”(page 12) This quote is taken from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. In this one quote, it sums up the relationship between Ender and his brother Peter. Peter is one of the greatest influences in Ender's life, even if Ender refuses to admit it. Because Peter was so cruel and violent towards Ender, often physically abusing him(page 12). Due to this End began to imitate Peter's actions when he played the war games ruthlessly. This led to Ender being a remarkable…

Leaders possess many great qualities such as good communication, natural intuition, and confidence. Ender Wiggin combines those qualities throughout both the movie and the book. Ender’s game starts off with an attack on earth from buggers which are aliens of another planet. Once attacked on, Mazer Rackham conquers and destroys the buggers, but that wasn't the last attack from these aliens. Colonel Graff believes that somewhere out there is the next Mazer Rackham, which leads him to starting a…

The selected scene is from 37:51 to 39:53 in the film Godfather, Part 2; altogether, there are 15 shots in this duration. This scene is centered with the conversation between Michael Corleone and his step-brother Tom Hagen. This conversation is expected to be very “private”, only between Michael and Tom. Therefore, both lighting and camera shots have to create the sense of mystique. In order to do so, generally speaking, the lighting in this room is very dark. It has struck a responsive chord in…

The House On Maple Street Mya was walking around the block at night on Maple Street. She saw this house. It wasn’t just a regular house it was a haunted scary looking house. Mya saw a ghost in the window she thought it was just in her head or a reflection of something so Mya kept walking. She went around the block again and said to herself she will not be scared, she came back to the house and saw 2 ghost in the window. This time 1 of the ghost looked at her. Mya ran home screaming. When she…

Where did my monster go? When I went to bed my monster was missing. I looked around my room and found a note that said he went fishing. I can't sleep without my monster, so I had to find a subsitute. None of the sub monsters were working. I hope Gabe comes back soon. I walked in my room to go to bed, but my monster was not there to scare me into bed. I noticed a note on my bed and it said that my monster went fishing. I was so frustrated and disapointed because I can not sleep without him.…

revealed. There was a figure was sleeping soundly, when a shadow came in and tied them up. The shadow put Duct Tape on this figure 's mouth as they struggled against the shadow. What was going on here? The shadow held up a knife and made a surgical cut on the figure 's arms and legs. Blood began spurting everywhere. The figure struggled to escape from the shadow, running out of the room into the living room, but was easily caught. The shadow let out a bone chilling laugh. "He 's coming."…

the foolish children of men miserably delude themselves in their own schemes, and in confidence in their own strength and wisdom; they trust to nothing but a shadow” (Edwards). In this quotation, the author talks symbolically with a shadow. This shadow represents the false beliefs of man, and the idolatries that men create because a shadow is just an absence of light, nothing exists within it, similarly to the false beliefs of man. They are consisting of absolutely nothing, but an absence of…