Orson Scott Card first wrote a short story in 1985‚ entitled Ender’s Game. The training of Andrew Wiggin also known as “Ender” is a six year old genius boy‚ drafted to Battle school‚ bullied‚ and keeps winning military games‚ follows the book that is revised into a motion picture‚ Ender’s Game. Ender grew up and is said to be Earth’s only hope for victory against an invasion of insecticoid aliens or buggers seeking to destroy all human life. He thinks that he is just playing computer stimulated military
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preparing for future warfare‚ Orson Scott Card was busy predicting the future of warfare in his award winning novel Ender’s Game. In this novel‚ a young boy of the name Ender Wiggins is to attend a special battle school where he will be trained to save his planet from the horrid buggers‚ their enemy of the past 100 years. Though Ender knows what he is in training for‚ he does not know the importance nor how fully involved he is in Operation Terminate the Buggers. Though Orson Scott Card thought his
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Ender’s Shadow is a novel that occurs in the future during a time of war between the humans and the Buggers‚ an insect-like alien species. The story begins in Rotterdam where we are introduced to Poke‚ a girl in charge of a group of street orphans‚ who encounters Bean‚ the protagonist of the book. At the time‚ Bean was merely four years old‚ but he is intellectually superior to all of the other starving children in Rotterdam. Thus‚ he tells Poke of a way to prevent the stronger kids‚ who are often
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constantly when they made Ender a commander of the Dragon Army. Some examples of this was when they gave Ender‚ his army that was just all full of mostly launchies and no one was even older than him in his own army. Also when a new team was built they got 3 months to prepare for battle and get chemistry with their toons and their formations there going to run. But Ender only got three and a half weeks with his army to prepare for battle and that was one way they changed it for Ender to make it harder on
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the cost of his own sanity. Another aspect that made Ender a good leader was his drive to be‚ not only good‚ but also superior. When he confided in Bean‚ he stated that he felt he could not lose any of the battles‚ for some reason that he did not reveal. This drive was so ingrained in Ender’s personality that he either did not understand it himself‚ or was so personal that he didn’t wish to reveal it to even his closest companions. This gave Ender a certain fervor that obviously boosted the rest of
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If there has been one thing that the book Ender’s Game has told me is this. Ender has made me a better reader by showing me my likes in science fiction‚ tactical decisions‚ and overall how to be a leader and the benefits of being one. This has always been a part of me but this book and character has truly spoken to me in a way no other has done before. Ender is a character who thinks out every action he does‚ every word he speaks‚ and every peer he makes friends with. He always enjoys and prefers
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In what ways does exploring the concept and significance of belonging broaden and deepen an individual’s understanding of themselves and their world? Refer to at least TWO of Skrzynecki’s poems and one related text. Through the study of ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card and the poems ‘Postcard’ and ‘In the folk museum’ by Peter Skrzynecki‚ an individual’s understanding of themselves and their world is broadened and deepened. These texts show that a sense of belonging can be difficult to find and
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writing awards (University of Utah). In summary‚ the plot of the novel is a story about a young child‚ Ender Wiggin‚ taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the defeat because he believes he
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chapter four to five‚ Ender faces the isolation‚ which is caused by Graff on purpose‚ however he has learned a lesson from Graff that in this world the one he can really rely on is himself. Later on he unfolds his progress that he modifies the isolated situation. As a result‚ Ender’s developing self-reliance is setting up his mind to be strong enough to face the difficulty in the future‚ but it does not interference building up his ability of cooperation. In scene four‚ to make Ender understand his position
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But Ender never surrenders‚ he answers his teachers in a problem poser way solving all the challenges using his emerging consciousness. It is true that at a certain point‚ Ender believes “It’s the teachers‚ they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other‚ to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing” (Ender’s game 108). Eventually‚ Ender sees the teachers as his enemies and the game as nothing‚ which
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