Picture this: a game that you have been playing for one year has just been revealed to you as being real. Everything that you did in that “game” has also happened in real life. That is exactly what happened to Ender in Chapter 14 of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. In Ender’s “simulator”, he had destroyed an entire species, known in the book as “buggers”. Immediately after this revelation, Ender felt regret that he had killed the buggers, and also anger that he was manipulated into doing something
Words: 588 - Pages: 3
Ender has the kills. Buggers begin a high trill. Ender has to win. This haiku gives brief insight into the story, Ender's Game. Ender's Game is about a brilliant young boy who is called upon to save Earth. He faces many internal and external trials and tribulations on his journey to becoming a commander of an army. The young boy, Ender must face hordes upon hordes of alien enemies. Both the book and movie portray the story in their own unique ways and have many similarities and differences between
Words: 620 - Pages: 3
Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday that brings families and friends together to pray for the souls of loved ones in their unworldly embark in the afterlife while awaiting their spiritual visit. This tradition is strongly rooted in past indigenous, and Christian practices. The Catholic holiday of All Souls Day was initially what brought The Day of the Dead to light when Spanish priests saw similarities between All Souls Day and the rituals of the Aztecs that they had to honor the dead. In order to
Words: 261 - Pages: 2
One tradition of el día los muertos is to go by your loved ones grave and decorate their graves with flowers, sugar skulls and crosses then they begin to light candles, pray to them, and celebrate life on earth by making foods such as bread and sweets and other favorite foods. A second tradition for el día los muertos are sugar skulls (calavera azucar) adults and kids make these teach them that death while saddening is also a positive part of life. The sugar skulls are made out of egg white, corn
Words: 324 - Pages: 2
Calaveras, or sugar skulls, are an important aspect of Dia de los muertos. They have a long history with the holiday, and are growing constantly in popularity. The original meaning of these calaveras is important to Mexican history. They represent what the holiday stands for. Calaveras were originally brought to Mexico by Italian missionaries in the 1800s. They were mixed into the holiday like many other aspects of it. The decorating of these skulls became a tradition to go with the days of dia
Words: 382 - Pages: 2
Ruthlessness in Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card wrote, “It was forbidden to strike the opponent who lay helpless on the ground; only an animal would do that. So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him, again, viciously, in the ribs,” (Card 7). Right and wrong in the eyes of a child can become mixed and almost indistinguishable at times. Ruthlessness tends to be classified “wrong” and plays into Ender’s story as a theme. It can be considered necessary in situations; however, Ender often
Words: 538 - Pages: 3
Ender’s Game takes the story of the child soldier and sets it in a futuristic and dystopian society with mixed success in some areas as well as failure in others. The style and realism were interesting aspects to critique because rather than this being a memoir, it is a fictional representation that may have been fun to read, but without examination, it would be easy to miss how the book does not always stay true to the issues facing real child soldiers. Speaking to the style dimension, the book’s
Words: 509 - Pages: 3
This book is about facing your problems head on and having the courage to stand strong when odds dont seem to be in your favor. My opinion of this book is that it has a great story to it and has a good base for leadership training. My book report is on Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Modern Library 100 Best Novels rates this book as number 59 as well as making the list for American Library Associations 100 Best Books for Teens. It also won multiple awards such as the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award
Words: 803 - Pages: 4
PROJECT TOPIC: THE BIOGRAPHY OF PROPHET EZIEKEL. PREPARED BY: BRO. J.O. TOYOBO ABSTRACT Ezekiel who grew up as a priest, was carried off to Babylon with the Jewish exiles deported in 597BCand there he became a prophet of God. His message was one of coming jugdement on the remaining in Jerusalem but his preaching was not well received by the Jews who were with him in captivity. When his dire prediction came true in 587BC with the destruction of Jerusalem [33:21] the people
Words: 3499 - Pages: 14
17 BIBLIOGRAPHY 20 INTRODUCTION Often we see in many churches that, they appear to be very much alive and spiritually in active in the way they act in those churches. But in reality they are spiritually dead by the circumstance when we get to know more about those churches. This is the same situation that we see with the church in Sardis. Sardis was a wealthy city full of gold taken from the nearby Pactolus River. The city was located on a high hill at
Words: 6916 - Pages: 28
