Reading, Writing…
Growing up I have never found myself a connoisseur of reading, writing, or just the subject of English. Matter of fact I could consider my appeal to be quiet irritated at the matter altogether. It was not something I had found any solace or escape in. Going through school like every other student, I’m forced to take it. I have had to write paper after paper, every time the same effect happens to me. I can’t seem to find the words that are requested of me to put down on paper. I have a problem explaining the things that run through my head. Its better if I just get my hands in it and take care of it myself. That is one of the problems with writing is that you cannot put you hand on it; it is verbal, it is inspirational,
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it is the painting of a picture for the reader to see. Writing is something I am not into nor care about. I’d much rather deal with something more concrete like Math. When I pick up a pencil and paper and put the two together I hit a brick wall with such force. With my mind as blank as the page in front of me I feel an undying urge to doodle for a while and end up spacing out more than being able to put words to paper. Catching myself spacing out I reconnect and focus again. “Andrew you can do this”, I find myself saying that lot as the paper goes on. Frequently looking at the clock checking the time and watching it just slip by. As I just stated that my mind instantly leapt into a visualization of a pocket watch in a slime form slowly oozing between my fingers and slowing slipping out of my hands and out of my control. Subsequently a lot like the painting by Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory. My mind wants to be anywhere but on an English mindset. Reading for me is not all that different from writing to me. I can sum up that the readings that have been picked for me has not been up to my interest. With that in mind the words I face letter by letter, page by page run together and just jumble into a blur of what appears to be of traveling into light speed that you’d see on a Star Track or Star Wars motion picture. After saying all of that there has been one book that I can look back and say I didn’t waste my time with and I had a connection. A book I had to read in eighth grade English by Olsen Scott Card is Enders Game. In Enders Game you find a young boy who is chosen because of not only his intelligence, but his ability to look at things in different light.
That was made apparent in the beginning, and with that I was captured and felt something in common with the character. That opened my eyes as I turned from one page to the next, focusing on each word and just racing to get to the next word as if they were going to evade off the page and forever be out of sight. Not only did the book show depth to me with the characters, it also allowed them to grow with the book and evolve in which only strengthen the realism of the characters. In the beginning Ender was not as confident inward as he was outward. Constantly doubting his judgement and abilities never wanting to get the wrong answer. In the book towards end his confidence had grown and not only had it in himself but also expressed it more when he gave his commands leading his army during war. Throughout the book during his training he was pushed harder than others time and time again. Each time he meets those challenges, but not flawlessly that you would find in so many young adult books. In the battle room he shows true out of the box thinking with his tactics to get the job done and win. He was promoted to commander of the worst collected group in the academy. During one of many sparing events they faced was against the best team on board, and when they opened arena door the door they had no barriers on Ender’s side to hide behind
and they saw the opposing team was already in place just waiting to ambush and win against Ender. He devised a way to overcome the odds that they stacked against him by thinking differently than anyone else had before him. I liked that cause it inspired out-of-box thinking. Over all that is the concept that pulled me into the book, it having a concrete sense of being with Ender’s character. That’s what I have always needed is a concrete type of connection that reflects about who I am. I will not turn down the mix with the setting of possible futuristic space, but the realistic character build is a must for my logical mindset. After I finished the book and with all the excitement I had I read second one and once finished I loved it. The third book killed it for me. So I think it is safe to say ill watch a movie in a heartbeat before I pick up a book.
Introduction: Ender is one of the main characters in this book, Ender is intelligent on and off the battlefield he is the youngest in the salamander army but he is more skillful than anyone else in the army. The book Ender’s game is written by Dr son Scott Card, This book was the Hugo and Nebula winner.
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
In the beginning of the book, Ender is ashamed when his decisions harm others. After receiving ‘special treatment’ on his way to Battle School, Ender is being harassed
Ender eventually goes to Battleschool and takes mass amounts of badgering and teasing from the other kids that are training too. Ender easily moves through the ranks and frustrates every instructor that he has. He becomes a commander and is given an army. He eventually goes to a planet called Eros, find the Buggers, and conclude that they are bugs, and that they have a queen like ants do. Ender finds an old man and finds that it is Mazer Rackham, his enemy. Ender finally finds that all the games he had been playing since Rackham became his enemy, was the real Third Invasion. Ender is a hero.
Throughout the book, Enders Game it is arduous to establish what it authentically denotes to have human rights. The regime relies on children to preserve the world from the buggers. They are treated like they are adults and are purloined of their youth. Ender realizes that the adults are manipulating the children and his cognizance of what is right and what is not is what preserves the world from the manipulation from the adults. Because of Ender kenning what is right and was is not and withal is authentic this is what he does that culminates up preserving the Earth from extirpation. In Orson Scott Card’s novel, the Ender’s Game shows how in authentic life that children can be utilized in Warfare, which they are called “child soldiers”, and
He uses a combination of Peter’s ruthlessness with Valentine’s compassion. “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves” (Card 238). Ender reveals this to Valentine because it is the main reason why he despises himself. Ender first uses his method against Stilson after getting his chip removed. He realizes that with the way Stilson is, the only way to stop him is to cause enough pain to deter retaliation. Learning from his enemies does not only occur on Earth. While being rejected in Salamander Army, Ender studies the good and bad techniques in the battle room. Given that, Ender ultimately beats Bonso once he is in command of his own army. He continues to do this with every person and battle he comes into contact with, making him the best commander at
In order to defeat his opponents, Ender is able to figure them out by noticing small details when he understands null gravity, learns how to manipulate others, and the real enemy is known.
... he commanded his own platoon. Those are phases Ender went through. During one battle he faced, he cheated. Page 218 describes Ender’s men passed through the gate without soldiers before the gate was reversed. He had to cheat because he was exhausted and he needed assistance. Ender was battling two teams at once, never done before at battle school.. Finally every game has a final stage or battle. In Ender’s Game the final battle was against the buggers. Ender fights them on page 297. Ender was actually tricked into fighting them. This point proves how life is a game because games have a final battle/stage and Ender fought in one. Ender as a game piece, cheating and fighting in a final stage/battle prove how life is a game.
He up agents a whole planet and a vast number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on the planet that blows it up. When he finishes the battle he realizes that everyone is cheering behind him. When he asks why they tell him that all of his missions were real ones against the buggers and that he had just destroyed all of the buggers. My favorite character in this book is Ender. He is my favorite character for many reasons.
Andrew Wiggin is a very complex character because he is a young boy that faces many difficult situations. At a young age, Andrew is taken from his parent’s home and shipped off to Battle School to prepare for the war against the“buggers”. Andrew is forced into isolation due to the malicious tactics used by the school’s administration. Throughout the duration of this novel, Ender is bullied by multiple characters, such as his brother, Bonzo, and Stilson. He fears his dangerous older brother and he also fears that he will become him, and this creates an internal conflict. The text states, “He kept remembering how it felt to kill the snake, grinding it in, the way he tore the ear off that boy, the way he destroyed Stilson, the way he broke Bernard’s arm. And then to stand up, holding the corpse of his enemy, and find Peter’s face looking out at him from the mirror. This game knows too much about me. This game tells filthy lies. I am not Peter. I don’t have murder in my heart.” This quote conveys how afraid Ender is of becoming his older brother and the internal conflict that he faces. Ender also had to deal with the school’s administration rigging and changing certain rules to challenge him and sometimes they even tormented him. Even though Ender has had to endure these hardships, he is still responsible for saving humanity. These hardships shows how much of a complex character Ender
When the novel starts Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old genius. He has a brother, Peter, and a sister, Valentine, whom is the only person Ender truly loves. Ender is the third born in the Wiggin family, which is rare, because the limited amount of children per family is two. The government had been running a Battle School in space to train young boys and girls to become military commanders to fight against the buggers, aliens who had invaded Earth in the First and Second Invasions. Peter and Valentine had both been tried out for the Battle School, but Peter was too ruthless and Valentine was too soft towards the enemy. They both failed to go to the Battle school. But, the government wanted Ender. They wanted the death threatening genes that Peter had and the merciful and loving genes that Valentine had. They hoped that Ender would make the perfect military commander. So, The government had Ender born and they put a monitor on the back of his neck to watch his every move to see if he had what it took to get into Battle School. The monitor protected Ender from Peter and kids at school because if anything got out of hand the officers would stop it to help Ender.
Transformations occur. Transformations occur not only in the physical appearance but also in the interior appearance (personality) transforms little by little. These changes do not magically happen; this process has a little help by: friendship or enemies, setting, and circumstances. In Ender’s Game by Card, Orson Scott, a novel gives examples of a transforming young child. When these changes start occurring Ender starts learning about three key ideas himself, leadership, and as well as friendship. Ender starts learning who he is becoming and whom he is acting like afterwards. Within the key idea of leadership is learned how to act and how to be flexible throughout the changes. In friendship as well learns that one could have friendship that
Allowing children to play games, such as imaginary war, or a lifelike video game such as Call Of Duty, is both a good thing and a bad thing in our society. The games teach the children how to use self defense, yes. However, they are still children and should be treated as such and should be able to live their life as innocently as possible. The real world is a cruel place and when children are still in the oblivious state of what is really going on around, we should let them stay that way for as long as possible. However, the children do need to know how to survive, in any case of emergency it is better to know the basics rather than know nothing at all.
“A good scenario doesn’t make a good science fiction story - but it’s setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.” - Jamais Cascio, an author. Orson Scott Card definitely paid attention to descriptive words and setting while writing the novel Ender’s Game, which portrays several young boys, and a few girls too, being shipped off to space. The novel Ender’s Game contains profound ideas of what will occur in the future; however, not all of the novel’s innovations and individual elements are valuable. Portrayed as a futuristic realm of ethical issues, the setting is efficiently described as the age of peace which seemingly manipulates time, alternate universes developing and evolving in somewhat unconventional places, and
All through my life, there have been a great deal of experiences that have helped me enhance my methods of reading and writing. In all my past years, I have always done well in school. Like every class, I paid attention in English. I did not struggle often; however, there were a few times when I needed assistance. From receiving this aid, it motivated me to pay even more attention and to improve my reading and writing. Most of the motivation and support came from a teacher. In addition to this teacher, there were friends who helped inspire me to work more efficiently. These significant people influenced my reading and writing skills through various different actions.