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Ender's Game
The main setting of Ender's Game is the Battle School, where gifted children are challenged and prepared to lead armies against the alien Buggers. This setting is not a warm and friendly school,...
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Ender's Game
As in any Bildungsroman, the main character, Ender Wiggin, matures in his understanding of the way his society works. His virtual imprisonment inside the training facility gives him a view of the...
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Ender's Game
In order to fully challenge Ender, Graph and Anderson begin changing some of the most traditional expectations in the game as soon as Ender gets his own army. First, "Dragon Army" is one that...
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Ender's Game
Graff is Ender's friend, even though he may appear to be undermining him and going behind his back in many things. Graff keeps secrets from Ender, plots to challenge him, talks about him behind his...
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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
Graff approaches Valentine in chapter 9 because Ender has come to place in his training, emotionally speaking, where he cannot (or refuses to) move forward. After feeling completely ignored by...
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Ender's Game
Agh! I can't tell you that! I tried, but it was just too hard to give it away just like that, poof, causing you to miss out on reading one of the coolest endings of any book I've read! So, if...
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Ender's Game
I believe she is referring to Graff as the king who forgets the dream. Graff took Ender from his family to make him into a heroic commander that would save mankind by shaping the good Ender into an...
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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
The future society in Ender's Game has been attacked by the Buggers, intelligent space-faring insectoid aliens. They managed, through luck, to defeat two attacks, but because of the enormous number...
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Ender's Game
By beating the giant, Ender has gained access into fairyland, which he begins to explore in Chapter Seven of this great novel. He goes around the back fo the giant's corpse and follows the brook...
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Ender's Game
When Ender first takes his new army into the battle room, it seems Ender treats Bean exactly the way Graff treated him. That is, he singles him out because he is obviously much smarter than the...
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite books, and yes, I believe the characters in the novel are realistic. Who has not had an older brother bully you or a sister take your side?...
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Ender's Game
In chaper 14 Ender is the leader of a group of fighters. His team includes Petra. She is smart, strong, and as Ender characterizes her "brilliant. He had depended too much on Petra and pushed...
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Ender's Game
Ender remains hopeful during his time in Salamander Army because he makes friends with Petra. She teaches him how to become a better marksman. He also keeps his hopes up by practicing during his...
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Ender's Game
Up until this point in the story, in Battle School, Ender has been the primary target of bullies, just like he was at home. Bernard is the ringleader of the bullies in Ender's launch group, and...
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Ender's Game
As a movie, the action scenes must be emphasized. Therefore, the subtle and sophisticated relationship between Ender and his sister Valentine might have to be sacrificed in your poster (although...
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Ender's Game
This question refers to Graff's conversation with Valentine in Chapter 9. Valentine does not really give a direct answer to Graff's question of why Ender keeps seeing Peter's face in the mirror....
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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 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
Ender gets his first Battle School command when he is becomes the head of the Dragon Army in Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel, Ender's Game. Dragon Army is totally comprised of new recruits, but...
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Ender's Game
"How can I work with squadron leaders I never see?" (273) Much to Ender's surprise and delight, all of his squadron leaders are his most trusted friends and allies from Battle School. The list...
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Ender's Game
At Battle School, Ender plays an open-ended adventure game that seems to have no clear point/ultimate goal. Ender is often frustrated by the game, and finds himself stuck at a particular point. He...
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Ender's Game
One dominant theme in Ender's Game is the challenge of success. Throughout the novel, Ender is incredibly successful in Battle School. He has the best hand-eye coordination and is a skillful...
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Ender's Game
It is hard not to read this story and feel moved by Ender's loneliness and solitude and angered by what is being done to him. Clearly, Ender's biggest and most central conflict is his internal...
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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
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
Ender's Game is full of interesting quotes that speak to the themes of the entire work, and indeed the entire series as a whole. One of the best comes early in the book, when Ender is asked why he...
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Ender's Game
The significance of the end game in the novel is that Ender discovers, after it is over, that it was all real. The entire time that he had been doing the "simulated" interactive computer games,...
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Ender's Game
We need to remember that in this excellent novel that raise so many ethical issues, Ender is being prepared in every sense of the word to champion Earth against the Buggers. As such, the purpose of...
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Ender's Game
The answer to this question is exactly as straightforward as it is for some other stories. In general, the narration stays firmly in the third person. I'd like to say that the narration is 100%...
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card's sci-fi classic, Ender's Game, follows the life of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, who is being groomed as Earth's next great military savior--though he is only six years old. The Earth is...
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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
The book "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card, is set far into the future. Earth has been at war with an alien civilization with which it cannot effectively communicate. As a result of their near...
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Ender's Game
When Ender and the other new children arrive, they are placed in a bunkroom for initial training; they will not be assigned to an army until training is over. Because Ender broke another child's...
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Ender's Game
The act of holding someone's hand means the person loves and will protect the one he is holding hands with. Graff does not love Ender, and he has no intention of protecting him. Graff wants to take...
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Ender's Game
After the war is over, Graff becomes the Minister of Colonization for the Hegemony. Now that the war is over, they can go their separate ways. Anderson becomes the commissioner of the football...
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Ender's Game
One way to look at Ender's relationships in the book is from the perspective of need. Does Ender need this character, or does this character need Ender? Do they need each other? Ender and Peter are...
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Ender's Game
Ender's parents were indicated for smart children, and so the military monitored their children, looking for a specific blend of ruthlessness and compassion. Their first two children were on the...
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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
Orson Scott Card's novel, Ender's Game, is one of my favorite books to give to students. Ender, a young boy who leaves his family to join the group on another planet, becomes the leader of the...
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Ender's Game
As previous posters have stated, "Salaam" basically means peace be with you in Arabic. It is most often spoken by Muslim cultures. Certainly the significance of this scene is the seal of a...
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Ender's Game
At first, the Giant's game is an unwinnable game designed to teach the recruits how to think through different scenarios, even if the endgame is always failure. However, as Ender's Game goes on, it...
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Ender's Game
This happens on the launch. Before the ship even leaves the earth, Ender understands that without gravity, what they are using as a floor could very easily be a wall of the ship in space, or the...
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Ender's Game
Interesting question. The book was published in 1985, far before the days of Facebook, but actually even before the days of the Internet as we know it (which was launched for public use in 1992)....
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Ender's Game
When Ender first arrives at Battle School, he is one of the launchies, the younger boys who are not yet assigned to armies. Most Battle School boys remain launchies for two years, but Ender is...
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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
This quote comes at the beginning of Chapter 7, while the teachers are discussing Ender's progress at the Battle School. Since the children there are gifted, and since they are put through tests...
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Ender's Game
Not only are these three characters siblings, but they all three have been monitored by the military government, to determine their suitability for the intense training program leading to the...
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Ender's Game
It is my personal belief that when Ender says "I didn't leave Valentine and Mother and Father to come here just to be iced." and uses the word "iced" he means taken out. I am...
