Exile

Growing up in a community concentrated on diverse cultures that deviated to form a melting pot, I easily fit into my surroundings. West Palm Beach, Florida was the ideal place to find a sundry of backgrounds. Notably, my home was surrounded by families from Mexico, Bangladesh, and Argentina to state the least. As a Cuban- American, I assimilated with the cultures and thrived during my trips to Cuba. Each trip classified my identify to one I wished to not hold, but soon grew to love. I aspired to…

‘Ender’s Game’, a 31-year old science fiction classic, written by Orson Scott Card. It even has a movie which was first released on October 25th, 2013 in the United Kingdoms. This book is recommended for people who love protagonists which are not just their average kid. The story centres on a young boy, Andrew Wiggin (also known as Ender Wiggin). He’s not just your typical 6-year old boy, he’s a genius. I highly recommend that you give it a shot because by the end, Card’s writing will make you…

Ender's game is written by Orson Scott Card. This book is a story about a little boy named Ender. He lives with parents and have two older siblings, peter and valentine. His siblings are highly intelligent, but the international military picked Ender as a leader and forces him to save the world from the buggers, an alien race looking to invade Earth. Ender needed to enter the Battle School to be trained. The school was located on a ship far from earth. As such, Ender was trained by Colonel Graff…

Ender’s Game is a science fiction action major motion picture based on the best selling novel of the same name. This futurist film follows the protagonist, an eleven year old named Ender Wiggin, through his battle training. Ender believes he is training to fight the alien race called the buggers. Colonel Graff is the head of the battle school and manipulates Ender’s training. There are also many of Ender’s friends sprinkled throughout the story that help him on his journey. Ender’s Game is set…

Imagine waking up eight o’clock on a Saturday morning, but instead you were waking up to the sound of your commander's voice telling you to get ready for war. The movie Ender’s Game and the book Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card has its similarities and has its differences. Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the book and movie shows with his wins and his defeats that he can only fight people or buggers that he understands. In each of the paragraphs, you will learn about why the book is…

The story “The Guest” establishes the values in conflict that Daru encounters when he is ordered to turn in an Arab prisoner to the police. Daru struggled with the sense of loyalty he feels toward his friend and people to do what was asked of him. However, he was also conflicted towards the belief of one making their own choices. Daru expressed his strong feelings against Balducci’s demands, “every bit of this disgusts me, and first of all your fellow here. But I won't hand him over. Fight, yes,…

In Ender’s game the computer game foreshadows how Enders character will be in the end of the book. Ender is playing a game and is stuck at a point until he thinks differently about the situation.“And instead of pushing his face into one of the liquids, he kicked one over, then the other, and dodged the Giant’s huge hands as the Giant shouted, ‘Cheater, cheater!’ He jumped at the Giant’s face . . . and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. . . . As the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed into the…

Anglo-Saxons took exile seriously; the threat of exile alone caused much anxiety among the individuals of that society. To be exiled means to be kicked out, or banished from one’s homeland, which would result in having no companionship. Because exile is something the Anglo-Saxons took very seriously, one had to commit a crime in order to be exiled. If one were to commit a crime Anglo-Saxons would resort to execution, unless the crime was not serious enough. If the crime was not serious…

(Gready). Exile, on the other hand, “is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted…” and is “a potent, even enriching” experience (Said). While in The Poisonwood Bible there are many instances of this separation from home-- the Witch Doctor’s exile from his village after his murder of Ruth May, Anatole’s exile from…

was raised on said reservation, which means he grew up basically in a Native American Reservation where the technology and science is far behind the World State. John’s tragic story and exile was both alienating and enriching. Truthfully, John’s life was a series of tragic exiles. John’s life was a story of exile from the very beginning. He is the son of the World State director of hatcheries and conditioning, and he grew up on the reservation so he could be hidden away from the public.…