The chapter opens with Graff and a military authority talking about Ender. They say that Ender seems to be in trouble. Ender’s group is split up in and Ender is stuck at this part called the “Giant’s Drink” from his mind game. Graff and the military authority connect this game to a boy who had killed himself. Later, Ender and the other Launchies are in the Battle Room. They take time to get used to no gravity with their heavy suits. Ender starts exploring and meets Bernard’s best friend, Alai. Alai introduces himself and ender realizes that they can become great friends. Alai is then chosen leader of his group. Now that Alai is leader, Bernard has no value as leader in his group. In Ender’s free time, he plays a game called Free Play. He isn’t…
Anderson and Graff have an argument about setting battle room scenarios unfair or not. Ender is placed in the Rat Army. The commander, Rose De Nose, immediately hates Ender and warns Ender to stop practicing with the Launchies. Ender sees Dink, (Ender is assigned to Dink’’s platoon) as a kind soul,but is suspicious sometimes because of Dink’s actions. Ender and Dink talk one day and Ender finds out that Dink was promoted twice, but refused to be commander because he didn’t believe in school. Dink says the real enemy is the teacher, not the students. Dink doesn’t want the adults to ruin his childhood and life. Dink tells Ender that he thinks the Buggers have vanished and the school is running to keep the I.F. in charge. Ender doesn’t believe…
Graff set Ender to be ostracized by saying Ender can be somewhere when the other boys are not going to be anywhere. Graff also says that he was the lone one to have the brains. A quote from the text that shows this is “Only one of you had the brains to realize that in null gravity directions are whatever you conceive them to be,” (Scott, card31).…
The war between the buggers and humanity has ended, yet Ender has lost all happiness. Throughout the novel, the Battle School tested Ender through a series of games. Whether the games be face-to-face or through a computer, these games have had meaning. The games have impacted Ender’s entire life. A continual theme throughout Card's novel is that games do not exist in opposition to reality. The author shows that every action has a meaning. Even when the action has been manipulated, changed, or not understood, it still has a meaning to it. In all of the games that Ender played, each one was unfair or misunderstood. In these circumstances, Ender must think about the big picture and not the small details. On top of that, Ender tends to hurt his…
Throughout the story of Ender’s Game Ender is constantly being isolated by Colonel Graff in order for Ender to think, make decisions, and respond to situations by himself. This isolation is to prepare Ender to become a great leader in battle. In the story, Graff orders to have Ender’s monitor taken out to see how Ender responds to mistreatment from bullies. He responds by beating up Stilson very badly so that Stilson never bullies him again, to win all the other fights as Ender said. If Ender did not respond in this way, then maybe Colonel Graff would not have come…
How is Ender moulded into a ‘hero’? By whom? In what ways is this treatment appropriate or inappropriate? Give evidence from the text.…
Ender has many sides, and struggles with who he really is throughout the book. Eventually, the reader realizes that he is just a kid, who just wants to be accepted for who he is. Ender realizes this as well, and travels to the destroyed Bugger planet, and spends the rest of his life trying to live his life the way he wants…
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,…
Reading Response #2 ‘Land Of The Giants’ In the essay ‘Land Of The Giants’, author Alex Tizon tells us his story about how the America dream changes him and his parents. Tizon and his parents were originally from the Philippines. They abandoned their native language, moved to California and tried for a better life. Thinking that the American dream would just happen to them, they were in for a rude awakening.…
Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card tells the inspiring story of Ender Wiggin and his recruitment into the International Military to help stop alien invasion. Ender’s Game is a powerful novel with many life lessons that will be learned by reading. Even in the business world, the novel relates to many situations and criteria that a business will also face. Some of the scenes in the novel relate back to themes using dealt with in the business world. Some of these themes include a business’ financials, customers, and mission.…
In scene four, to make Ender understand his position, Graff gives his statement that “individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help…
In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, the “mind game” is a constantly changing computer game made for the students and is used by the commanders of the battle school as a tool to monitor and analyze how the students are feeling. Ender Wiggin becomes increasingly obsessed with the game, specifically after he becomes stuck at the “Giant’s Drink”. At this point, the game seems to hit a dead end, with none of the options for the player to take being the right one and all of them ending in their “death”. The game would then reset itself so that the player might try again, and fail again. The Giant’s Drink is symbolic to many parts of Ender’s life; he sees, in the battle school, that following orders will barely…
“This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers… you destroyed them completely… Real. Not a game… “I killed them all, didn’t I?” Ender asked… I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! You didn’t want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do…
Humor, sometimes used as a coping mechanism, to avoid the truth, or simply make light of a difficult situation. The use of humour by some can result in emotions being suppressed, never being allowed to reach the surface. Within the book “In a World Created by a Drunk God” by Hayden Taylor, Jason Pierce; a half-native Canadian man meets his American half-brother Harry Deiter. Jason uses his sense of humour to cope with the emotions that Harry brings to the surface, the loss and appearance of his biological father; Lawrence Deiter, his recent single status accompanied by a possible link to his father, and with the appearance of Harry; a new half-brother. Humour creates a distraction, from tackling the problems that are…
The paragraphs above state, “Veni, vidi, vici is a famous Latin phrase coined by the Roman general Julius Caesar in 47 BC... Caesar’s remark was translated as, “I came, I saw, I conquered,” or even “came, saw, conquered.” That quote shows what Veni, vidi, vici means. Veni, vidi, vici is a good title for this chapter because Ender was undefeated even though he had an army full of inexperienced kids. On page 112 it says, “Almost thirty of his soldiers were new, straight out of there launch group, completely inexperienced in battle.…