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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...
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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
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
That is a difficult question because it is unclear which army you are talking about. Is this referring to Ender's time at school, or Ender when he is unknowingly preparing to lead an army against...
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Ender's Game
Ender was a hero to the people because he was able to not only destroy the "Buggers" but he also destroyed their home planet. Ender had saved the world and the people loved him and worshiped him...
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Ender's Game
This quote comes from Mazer Rackham, who is explaining his life's philosophy to Ender. In Rackham's view, society demands excellence from its citizens, and does not care, at an individual level, if...
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Ender's Game
Rackham won the war through a stroke of insight that only Ender his pupil is ever able to replicate: in the midst of a swarming battle, he identified which ship held the Bugger queen. He pierced...
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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
In the futuristic society that Ender lives in, couples are only really allowed to have two children, and to have a third is against the rules. If you are a "third" child, then you are looked down...
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Ender's Game
The previous conversations all take place via the ansible, or through some version of its technology so that real-time conversations can take place across a vast distance. They involve various...
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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
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
The quote above is a clue into Ender's character, more than anything. The fact that he is sitting on the sidelines for a moment, just observing the others is clue number one. It foreshadows one...
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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
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
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
I'll try to be as convincing as possible without much exact textual back up. I do not have the book in front of me, but I think I can give you enough to help you understand. The answer starts...
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Ender's Game
The thing the kids at Battle School have largely forgotten is that they are in training for a real war. So many of them are so wrapped up in the "games" and battles against other armies, that they...
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Ender's Game
Ender is not like Valentine and he is not like Peter. Ender, or Andrew, is a combination of both. Valentine is a compassionate person. She will defend her little brother if necessary, but she...
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Ender's Game
The family moves to North Carolina for the good of Valentine and Ender's brother Peter. This is stated plainly in Chapter 9: Valentine knew why they had moved here. It was for Peter, so that...
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Ender's Game
The Buggers are a powerful race of space-faring insectoid aliens, who have been warring with Earth for a long time. Humans and Buggers have not been able to communicate effectively, and were unable...
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Ender's Game
I do not recall any physical description of Peter. We have to visualize his appearance as best we can. But there is certainly description of Peter's actions, and that tells us a great deal about...
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Ender's Game
Peter plans on taking over the world with the help of Valentine. Together they begin posting articles on the nets to influence public opinion of the war with the Russians; they do so anonymously...
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Ender's Game
In this chapter, Card tries to set up some Jungian symbols to imitate the dramatic psychological relationships among the siblings in the Wiggin family. In this dream sequence, Ender is sorting out...
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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 attacks the...
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Ender's Game
It is important to keep in mind that an allusionis a reference in literature to something that is well known from other literature, science, history, or pop culture. In chapter 9 of Ender's Game,...
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Ender's Game
I think the overarching statement that this powerful novel makes about humanity is the way in which the novel constantly shows that the boundary between what is classified as "good" and what is...
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Ender's Game
The opening scene shows us a variety of things, one is that there is a plan for this boy, another is that we get to see through Ender's eyes the way he rationalizes hurting Stilson. He begins to...
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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
After proving that he is too smart to be a mere soldier, Ender is given command of an army for himself. It is designated Dragon Army, a name that carries many negative connotations: "There hasn't...
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Ender's Game
The enemy's gate is "down." This of course refers to the Battle Room at Battle School and a tactical approach to re-orienting all soldiers so they have a common goal and a common sense of...
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Ender's Game
This "game" term, part of a mental challenge that Ender faces in Battle School, is a “choice” the player must make (see Chapter 6). Unfortunately, in this either-or game, whether the player...
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Ender's Game
Ender has come home with his monitor removed. Ender's father is upset because at this time he is under the impression that the IF doesn't want to use any of his children. Ender is a "third." That...
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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
There are many themes in Ender's Game. One theme is the idea of Ethics. How the world deals with the invasion of the Buggers could be considered unethical. The way the children are treated and...
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Ender's Game
To forestall vengeance, Ender attacks Stilson while he is lying on the ground. This way the others will know that he is an animal, lying in wait to get them when they are not looking. In school,...
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A gift? Like a present? From whom? The thing Peter seems to want most in the novel is power. He is a genius, he doesn't really need any material possessions (at least it isn't mentioned that...
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Ender's Game
As with the other chapters in this book, chapter 7 starts out with a conversation between two adults. Readers know that one of the men is Graff, and chapter 7 reveals that the other man is General...
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Ender's Game
In the novel, Ender's Game, Ender fought to win in the games he played. When he discovered that the battles were real, he wanted to understand his enemy. To me, his question was, "Who are these...
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Ender's Game
If you think of techniques an author uses to delineate a character so that the reader understands the character, Orson Scott Card uses many ideas. Ender Wiggin is first introduced as a bullied 6...
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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
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
Ender, having beaten Salamander Army against the odds, then shames Bonzo Madrid even further by asking Bean, his youngest Toon leader, to publically announce where Bonzo went wrong and what he...
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Ender's Game
The Battle School is constructed for the sole purpose of training children to fight in outer space. The children are not coddled or protected, but allowed to fight among themselves. The teachers...
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Ender's Game
This quote comes near the climax of the book, as Mazer Rackham is putting Ender through brutal simulations to test his resolve and his ability to function under pressure. Ender doesn't know that...
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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
Orson Scott Card has created for his novel, Ender’s Game a complicated and intriguing plot with multiple stories within a story. One of these stories involves the computer game. To understand why...
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Ender's Game
This question is a bit unclear, but I think you are asking what kind of headline we might see in the newspaper about the situation in Enders Game. This would depend on what point in the story you...
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Ender's Game
In order to write an essay about Ender’s loss of innocence, you must first establish that he was ever innocent. Since the book begins with his beating a schoolmate and his fear that he is just...
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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 staving...
