An author uses literary devices to allow the reader to engage. The author uses descriptive writing to enhance the individual’s imagination. It also gives them ways to relate and a divergent way to think about writing. The three most important literary devices used in The Most Dangerous Game are similes, imagery, and foreshadowing. Richard Connell utilizes these devices to create a fun and inspiring story.…
The Ender’s Game by is a science fiction novel. The book starts off with Ender living with his parents and he gets in to a fight and kills a member of a gang who will not stop tormenting him. Ender has a monitor in his head so the administration can understand his thoughts; his brother used to have a monitor too. Ender is sent off to do training for the military. He is quickly promoted to the salamander squadron and continually wins all the contests he competes in.…
In Ender's Game, euphemism is present while the government does not tell Ender the whole truth about his activities, which affects Ender’s actions drastically, proving euphemism alters people's decisions. When Granger travels to Ender’s house to recruit Ender to help destroy the bugger aliens, he used tons of understatements to persuade Ender to come. Granger tells Ender that he will fight for Valentine, Ender’s sister, who will be saved from the possibility of dying but, Ender is really needed to save humanity. This leads Ender to reluctantly agree to go with Granger. To convince Ender’s parents that the mission is safe, he fabricates the truth by saying, “War games. All the boys are organized into armies. Day, after day, in zero gravity,…
Change is inevitable, whether it's good or bad it happens to everyone, including Ender Wiggin. In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, to say Ender’s life is challenging is an understatement. In a world where people are only allowed to have two children, being a third child ensures dilemma for Ender. He is constantly tormented by others around him. His sadistic brother Peter harasses him at home, and he’s bullied almost everywhere he goes. It seems as if the only person who cares for him is his sister, Valentine. As the plot progresses, Ender makes the life changing decision to leave home and all he has ever known, to be sent into outer space and attend battle school to help exterminate the Buggers, an alien race threatening human existence. Ender…
Imagine having a teacher your own age. Imagine having to fight that teacher. Lastly, imagine living In a world where children rule. For example, knowing your enemies. Ender learned that one should learn about the enemy you’re fighting up against, and know their strategies to find way to defeat them, so he could be more prepared. Also, about not fighting alone. Ender also learned that he train the people in his toon, to strategize ways to defeat the buggers. Yes, in Orson Scott Card’s Book “Ender's Game”, Ender did learn from the “enemies” in many ways, that it took practice to defeat your enemy, and to have backup, and to know the enemy and closely watch for their strategies to help you defeat them.…
The passage I have chosen is from Chapter 5, book 1, which takes place at a wine shop. Dickens is using this passage to explain the recent event that has taken place; crowds of people gather in front of the wine shop, and actually scoop up the wine for themselves from the broken cask. That shows the readers that these peasants are in physical hunger and are that desperate for food, showing that France isn’t in good shape. Once all the wine is gone all that is left over is the stains of the red wine on the street, the peoples hands, faces and feet. Dickens is foreshadowing the blood that will be left there in later years during the revolution. Like I stated before Dickens is showing the peasants hunger, but I think he is showing the physical hunger and the hunger the peasants have for justice and that they want freedom from the misery they’re in, therefore I feel he is also foreshadowing that the peasants are going to revolt and that they’re will be some kind of revolution. When Dickens says “the wine was red wine”, it is symbolic in a way of showing the sense of revolution, because the peasants dressed themselves in the color red while revolting, but also the fact that red is symbolic by symbolizing the blood of all the peasants and people of France that will die in the fight for what they believe in. I also believe when Dickens closes this passage with the words wine-lees blood he is trying to say that although at that moment its just wine, eventually lives are taken and it turns into real blood, and that the blood will stain the streets of France, leaving a reminder of this terrible…
In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, makes numerous enemies during his years at battle school. Ender sometimes wonder what his enemies’ points of view toward him are. He has a great feeling of empathy for them. Card chooses empathy for the major theme of the book, and tries to prove to readers that having empathy for your enemies can defeat and also turn them closer.…
The Maze Runner is a movie by Wes Ball adapted off a book series of the same name. Every month a child is sent to a place called the Glade with no past memory of anything but their names. A kid named Thomas is sent to the Glades and is more curious than anyone else in the Glade. The movie attempts to try to say it is okay to challenge rules and try new things.…
“Don't judge a book by its cover!” your mom tells you for the third time this week. It's not your fault that the new kid at school is shy and distant. They're weird , not you--right? Well that’s not always the case, and your misperceptions could cause you to become enemies. The same concept applies in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, but the outcome is devastating. Ender Wiggin, a six year old genius, battled everyday with the conflict brought on by his hateful brother, Peter, who did everything in his power to weaken Ender. The tension heightened when Ender remained the only one of three children to be monitored by the government. Because of this monitoring, the government took notice of his analytical mind and intellect. Colonel Graff, a government official, then asked him to join an elite program called Battle School where young boys and girls were trained to fight the Buggers (aliens). Though he was under pressure with memories of his brother's cruelty looming, he still managed to pass his training. Eventually, his success as a Commander unknowingly and sadly resulted in the death of an entire civilization. Orson Scott Card directly illustrates through the casting of “good” and “evil” characters the importance of communication. Ender and Peter, Valentine, and the Buggers are perfect illustrations of how the lack of communication can cause failure among human relationships.…
So I could be wrong here, but I don’t think I am the only one who wanted to know how to wipe out an entire alien race, and enjoy doing it. If I am correct, and you are in fact looking just for that, then boy do I have a treat for you! Because Orson Scott Card has the key! Ender in Ender’s Game is a quiet boy who isn’t like the others--he has a small black box on his body. No, he isn’t under house arrest, Ender is part of a government plan to create an army. Throughout his life Ender has to worry about a whole lot more than if a girl likes him, Ender has to think and decide whether or not he has it in him to save the world. Most people have their entire early lives/childhood to decide…
Violence is a large theme in Ender’s game, and that is one reason why Peter thinks violence is the only power that matters. Not only is he wrong about that, he also says that no one will ever save you from those who choose violence and that is false. Peter has grown up thinking that violence is the only power that matters and this is false but some aspects of it are partly right. In Ender’s Game, Peter argues that the power to kill and destroy is the only power that matters, but he is wrong. However, in Ender’s case when he fights Bonzo, it is the last resort and therefore, Ender fights to protect himself. Violence should never be the first solution to solving a problem if there are other more peaceful solutions. For example, Ender always regrets…
In Teen Dystopia: Should we be worried about what Generation Z is reading?, the author, Sophie Boyer debates whether The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a suitable book for our generation to read. Through the discussion of both sides of the story, in the end, the author concludes that The Hunger Games is a “well-constructed allegory that reflects a more realistic portrayal of our world” and “reminds the reader to never take anything for granted.…
When I walked into the movie theater, there were a good amount of people that came to see it. They all seemed to have a feeling of anticipation for this movie adaptation of the novel. I bet that most of the people that were in the theater the night that I went to watch it all read the book about, so they know what they are getting into and the book has been out for a while so needed to have established some sense of familiarity with the movie. I noticed a group of people that were commenting on how it would be a spectacular movie adaptation is going to be, they were in for a special treat. I went to see this movie with my girlfriend, since she is an action movie sci-fi buff, she was very respectful and let me analyze and critique this movie for this essay. I went to Gateway during the middle of the week on a day I didn’t have homework, I made it into a date night. It wasn’t opening night, since I didn’t realize this movie was assigned until later in the week. The mood of the crowd was full of anticipation and then regret at the end of the movie. I fitted in with the crowd since I knew the plot behind this movie. I was comfortable with the whole production since I was ready for whatever this movie was going to throw at me.…
Andrew Wiggin, or Ender, was selected to attend the Battle School. The Battle School is where soldiers and commanders are trained to destroy the Buggers, an alien species that had twice almost wiped out the entire human race. He does have a choice of not going, but he chooses to, merely to escape from his violent brother Peter and to ensure that his beloved sister, Valentine, will never be harmed by the Buggers.…
He feels a deep sense of guilt and pain because of the condition of society…