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    Hugh Roberts Mr. Barclay English 10H 2 March 2017 The Exiles Imagine a society where the oppression of certain opinions and ideas is common. Imagine world world where Steve Jobs wasn't allowed to make the iPhone and the Wright Brothers were banned from flying planes. In the short story The Exiles by Ray Bradbury, this is the world the reader is introduced to. In The Exiles we are introduced to a society where supernaturalism is outlawed by society. This censorship on Earth forces authors…

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    Like a little girl mimicking her mother at the vanity table, the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, resembled its predecessor but paid minimal homage to the beloved novel, despite its fancy dresses woven with exquisite graphics and its faint perfumes of action and intensity. By focusing on the general events at Battle School and Command School, the film left out the specific details of Ender’s training experience. Although the movie included essential scenes from the…

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    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…

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    Ender Wiggin is the third child of a family of geniuses and is selected by the military force to save Earth In this society, each child wears a monitor so that the heads of the military are able to see and hear exactly what the child hears. Ender and his siblings, Peter and Valentine, all wore this monitor, although both Peter and Valentine were not selected. Ender, however, has the monitor longer than both Peter or Valentine, and this causes Peter to hate Ender, even when the monitor is taken…

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    Ender's Game Analysis

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    Andrew (or Ender) Wiggin is a genius 6 year old who lived in Greensboro, North Carolina with his mom, dad, a big sister named Valentine and a mean big brother named Peter. After getting into a fight with one of his classmates Ender was chosen by a Colonel named, Graff to join a place called,Battle School. Battle School is where 5 or 6 year olds geniuses like Ender train to fight off bug like alien creatures called, Buggers until they graduate which usually take about 10 years. The kids within…

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    Many people have different personalities, but Ender and Ellie have some very different qualities but a few similar ones. Ender's Game is about kids who are very smart who get taken up to a place called battle school ams they get trained to fight and alien race which humans call “Buggers”. Night is a true story about a boy who is in the middle of World War 2 as a jew and gets taken to Auschwitz to work until The Allies free them. Ender and Ellie are very different personality wise, some can be…

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    The first chapter of Ender’s Game commences with two unknown individuals indulged in an enigmatic discussion, surrounding a boy and his two siblings. During the conversation between the unknown characters, they decide that the boy also known as Ender is the chosen one, the one they need to save the world from buggers. As the first chapter progresses, it informs the reader that Ender is a six-year-old boy with a monitor or device, that allows authorities to perceive the world as Ender does…

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    Remember how you have ever done something morally wrong and then you reminisce about this event day after day, week after week. Ender has many problems during the story, Ender’s Game. Born a third child, this is how Andrew “Ender” Wiggin feels throughout the story Ender’s Game. Ender's Game is a novel, about a young Ender Wiggin, who is considered a reject to his family, however he grows to save the world from the alienated buggers. He lives an average life as a six year old until he gets the…

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    Literary Analysis : Ender’s Game Ender’s Game is a book that was published January 15, 1985. The author was Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game is a science fiction book and shows themes of friendship and loyalty. It explores through the courageous young characters, as they are in space.In the near future, a alien race has attacked Earth. If not for the heroic of commander Rackham, all would had been lost. In preparation for the next attack Colonel Graff and the military are training only the best…

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    through heritage, war, and revolution. We see through African literature that hope, dishonesty, and despair shaped Africa into the civilization it is today. Two specific works that are mentioned: "On African Writing" by Jack Mapanje and "There Is No Exile" by Assia Djebar show these three emotional themes, hope, dishonesty, and despair, display the story of African upbringings into the modern world. Hope is a recurring theme…

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