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Ender's Game
An oxymoron is two contradictory ideas or themes being fused together. It's a common literary device. There are two primary examples of oxymoron in Ender's Game. The first is Ender himself. He is...
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Ender's Game
I would describe the members of Ender's launch group as true newbies with leaders emerging who inspire unity. Chapter 6 is about the launch group's first attempt to try battle without gravity and...
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Ender's Game
An interesting question. The short answer is, high ability children should contribute according to their ability, but also according to the need of the larger community. (This isn't specific to...
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Ender's Game
Ender changes constantly throughout the book. His changing isn't a nice, smooth, continual path of positive change either. He sometimes reverts back to how he was before, or changes to be like the...
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Ender's Game
The adults decide to give Ender command of an army at a very young age. Since all the command positions have leaders at the time, they form a new army for him called Dragon Army. Ender divides his...
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Ender's Game
The answer to your question can be found in chapter 9 ("Locke and Demosthenes") of Ender's Game. During chapter 9, Valentine and Peter vow to be like Demosthenes and Locke respectively. Peter...
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Ender's Game
Ender sees Peter's face in the mirror while playing the game. This comes after he has recently fought his way out of a bad situation with older boys. It also comes right after a conversation in...
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game, like most science fiction, takes societal "givens" and twists them in strange and compelling ways. One of the main "givens" thus experimented with is that of childhood, or the notion...
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Ender's Game
Yes, Ender was an extraordinary commander of Dragon Army. Before Ender took over, Dragon Army had the reputation across Battle School for losing all of its battles. The name was even considered to...
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Ender's Game
In literature there are generally considered to be two main types of conflict: external and internal conflicts. External conflicts are issues that happen between the main character and outside...
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Ender's Game
Andrew "Ender" Wiggen, is the protagonist and ultimately, the hero, of the novel. Set in the future, the story opens with the search for a child who can be trained into a perfect soldier for...
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Ender's Game
Ender’s Game is the first book in Orson Scott Card’s Ender Wiggins series. The story follows Ender, a pre-teen boy who has been tapped as a future commander for Earth’s space army fighting...
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Ender's Game
Ender and the other students in battle school are only children. At the very start of the chapter Graff and another commander discuss how the training is impacting the children. Ender's inability...
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Ender's Game
I would argue that Ender is made a hero. Here are three simple examples of why. 1: His decision to defend himself from bullies in school Graff and the others force Ender to be bullied so that he...
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Ender's Game
Those are both two great books. In order to compare the two, don't do a plot comparison. That won't work well. The best way to compare two seemingly very different books is to compare their...
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Hamlet
Your initial thoughts are good for comparing and contrasting those three literature pieces. The second thought, comparing appearance and reality is the stronger of your two ideas. Your first idea...
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Ender's Game
Graff is undoubtedly manipulative. He intentionally drives the other kids away from Ender to isolate him, he convinces Ender that his fight against the Buggers is a simulation, and he frequently...
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Ender's Game
In Ender's Game, this question is applicable in several different circumstances. For instance, Ender looks at the video game in a "new way" when he refuses to choose one of the Giant's goblets for...
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Ender's Game
Ender cannot return to Earth in the earlier parts of the novel because he is still training for his mission to defeat the Buggers. At the end of the novel, after the war has been fought, Ender...
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Ender's Game
The first thing, of course, is that Ender's family has exceed the prescribed "proper" amount off offspring, thus the name, Third. Secondly, the family has been marked by the "government" as...
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Ender's Game
Throughout all of Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, Ender is suffering a huge internal conflict: he doesn't want to be his brother Peter. Peter is a violent sociopath who has no empathy for...
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Ender's Game
Becoming a more mature individual is most evident through the character of Ender, but you could use just about any of the main characters. The story is about young children being trained in battle...
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Ender's Game
There are a lot of lies in the book Ender's Game. Many characters lie to Ender for a variety of reasons, but the character that probably lies the most is Colonel Graff. Colonel Graff does...
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Ender's Game
Chapter Two starts with the mystery adults discussing how Ender won his fight with Stilson. They worry about Peter and his violent tendencies. In Ender's house, Valentine is trying to make Ender...
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Ender's Game
First of all, keep in mind what dystopian means. In literature, a dystopian society is the opposite of a utopian (perfect or ideal) society. And, it is more than just a science fictional place. It...
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Ender's Game
The theme of good vs. evil, shown by characters Ender and Peter, seems very black and white for the first half of the book. Ender is the innocent child who seems to be used by Peter, by Colonol...
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Ender's Game
Great book! It's one of my favorite books of all time. In fact, I refuse to see the movie and let it be ruined. The battle room is where all of the kids (students) put into practice the battle...
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Ender's Game
Ender is disturbed by the lower gravity, the downward slope of all the rooms and halls, and the tunnel-like feeling of Eros. Everyone lives underground because the surface is devoted to collecting...
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Ender's Game
In the novel Ender's Game, Ender has two problems in chapters 5 and 6. First, he must break the hold that one of the older boys has on the group which plays against the young ones like Ender....
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Ender's Game
In Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card certainly used very direct, literal language to express the story and its themes. However, we can find a few literary devices, including a couple of metaphors.One...
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Ender's Game
"Personalities" implies social responses and one's view of one's own worth. Ender has grown up knowing that his birth order puts him in a socially distasteful and precarious position and as a young...
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Ender's Game
It looks like you are referring to the novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game. In Chapter 2 (eNotes has chapter summaries for this novel), we are shown that Peter is actually a very sadistic and...
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Ender's Game
In the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin is the young boy chosen to go to Battle School to find out if he can be the commander of the army to defeat the Buggers. Chapters 6-12...
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Ender's Game
The Enders Game is a short story written by Orson Scott Card that was later expanded into a novel and turned into a cinematic movie. Within the short story the focus is on the main character,...
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Ender's Game
A figure of speech, oxymoron fuses two contradictory or opposing ideas. Everyone has heard oxymoron's in his/her life, and while they apparently contradict themselves, there is a certain logic to...
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Ender's Game
One distinct comparison between both works is the presence of a social order predicated upon division. In Ender's world, conflict against the Buggers defines all aspects of being in the world....
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Ender's Game
In Chapter 15, where we find out that in spite of the massive public outcry against Graff and the military for what they did to the children and particularly to Ender, Graff has been acquitted,...
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Ender's Game
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 11, which records the battle that Dragon Army fought against Rabbit Army and the defeat that Rabbit Army suffered. When Ender and his troops go...
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Ender's Game
Rose is an interesting character, not exactly a rival, but more than the others a partner, a mutual leader with Ender. Card makes the point that he is Jewish, which might be interpreted as...
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Ender's Game
As the end of Chapter Nine explores, the scene where Ender kills the snake and then sees Peter's bloody reflection in the mirror that he gazes into suggests strongly that Ender has the potential to...
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Ender's Game
This quote is particularly true of the way in which the children in this novel are used to help combat the threat from the buggers. When you think about what is done to children like Ender, and how...
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Ender's Game
Part of the intrigue of this novel is the paucity of information available to the Battle School candidates before they are chosen; the parents, in particular, are in the dark about what is about to...
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Ender's Game
The old man in Chapter 10 turns out to be the captain in the last victory over the buggers. When Ender asks him to explain his success, Mazer describes the passive state (“already dead at their...
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Ender's Game
This is the chapterwhere Ender gets a new team of rookies and misfits, and begins training them in tactics that include using their bodies as shields and weapons in the Battle Room. More...
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Ender's Game
In chapter fourteen, of Orsen Scott Card's Ender's Game, readers find Ender finds himself on Eros, a place he hates. Here, Ender is trained on the simulator. Over numerous trainings, Ender comes to...
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Ender's Game
The science fiction story has a family subplot built into it, concerning the siblings of Ender, brother Peter and sister Valentine. While there are very few realistic details about their family...
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Ender's Game
This novel is a Bildungsroman, meaning it tells the story of a child growing up into an adult. We meet Ender first as the youngest child in the Wiggin family, with a bullying older brother, Peter,...
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Ender's Game
In Ender’s Game, Mazer Rackam was a heroic leader of a past battle with the Buggers who did very well as a leader of the earth army, fighting against the Buggers with inferior weaponry, but...
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Ender's Game
This chapter, which on the surface treats the enemy, Bonzo, is much more about the relation of Ender to his adult trainers. Support for this view comes from such quotations as this, from the...
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Ender's Game
The “Giant’s Drink” puzzle tests a student’s ability to think outside the obvious choices in making decisions. After several tries, Ender tries not choosing either drink, but instead...
