Thoughts about Ender

Story based Conclusions on Ender from Chapters 1-7

• Ender adds to the story a sense, of sensitivity because he is super sensitive.
• The story would change because if there was no Ender or a character with less sensitivity the story would change into a story about
• The bullies wouldn’t be needed in the story
• If Ender wasn’t in the story then we wouldn’t have a theme, main character or have any point of the ideas of buggers, battle school and command school
• There is pressure on him, he gets bullied everywhere he goes and is always the one put out
• Maybe its not they great to be the chosen one because he would get bullied and have to be isolated
• The idea of being exploited for being the chosen one
• The story would become more about the Buggers rather than the boy himself. Ender is one of the only characters that is super sensitive.
• We have a story based around the chosen one.
• Main characters need to be smart and sensitive in order for a story to be more interesting and people being feeling sympathy for Ender and his struggle throw
• This story should not be about Ender massacring buggers but making peace with them and forgiving them
• Ender is the main character in the book. He is bullied everywhere he goes whether it be Earth or at Battle School. The story would change dramatically if Ender was not in the book as the buggers could not be defeated, Mazer Rahckman would not have to ''Babysit'' or teach Ender in Command School, his family wouldn't have the burden of a third in the family and would defeat the purpose of Graff in the story, looking after Ender and pushing him far to have a chance to defeat the buggers. All of these points could not be achieved if Ender was not in the book.

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Ender's Game Quiz

1. The narrative is told in first person

2. A third is the third child in a family

3. Buggers and Astronauts

4. Miss his family and he is not a fighter

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6. Graff treat Ender him like dirt

7. The room leader is Bernard

8. Ender decided to play against the big boys

9. Bernard was a Stilsion and had a very bad relationship towards Ender by picking on him

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11. His mistake was that Bonzo did not allow Ender to fight

12. Ender broke the rules and prevented the opposing team from winning

Settings of Ender's Game

The book Ender's Game was about the main character going to space. I thought this book was a modern piece of work but then, this book was actually written back in 1985. This shows that the author had a lot of imagination about what it was like in the futuristic world. One was the internet and these desks in the book that can move words around. Orson also created an imaginary space centre like the Battle School. Orson also created laser guns which freezes people. Also, there is this high-tech monitor that is implanted on the protagonist's neck to observe his every move. All these are typical characteristics of science fiction with advanced technology in a futuristic setting.

A story would normally start with the description of a character but instead in Ender's game, it started with a conversation. This shows that Orson Scott Card uses a mystery style to write the story to create suspense. Its language is for young adults and about middle complication and sophistication. The narrator is 3rd person and that there are two types of third person narrators
Omniscient- The narrator knows all the thoughts of the characters
Limited- Narrator knows the thoughts of only one character

Ender's Game: Chapter 1: Third

1. The chapter is called third because the main character is a third child in the Wiggin family.

2. The bold formed represents two characters (not the main character) talking to each other about the main character, the non-bold form is the narration of the story.

3. The narrative is told in third person

4. Ender is from a special family because the kids in the Wiggin family were monitored: Ender/Andrew, Peter and Valentine. The people who were at the start were watching the children using the monitors because they believe the kids have a special ability to kill and other deadly things and save the World.

5. The speakers were watching Ender's actions and they decided whether they will recruit Ender, the irony is that we will know what will happen to Ender before he finds out what happens to him as if it is like it is a real reality T.V show.

6. The name Ender sounds as if the person would bring an end to a war,  argument or even someone else's life. This seems to be the role of the main character in the story.

7. The narrator is presenting the events in a very factual and unbiased way. Very descriptive but unbiased.

8. In Ender's world, nobody tells the truth and that the truth is the opposite of the lie. The central theme would be a very chaotic word where a lot of people would tell lies.

9. The title "monitor" to Ender's classmates would think that Ender is probably a robot or not human at all.

10. The connotations is that a third would be very smart or acting like he is still a baby and that he is learning or if he is an alien and people treat him differently.

11. Ender knows that he is smarter than the other boys because the teacher wouldn't bother him if he did not pay attention because Ender knows the answer

12. Ender stood up to the bullies and beat Stilson up very badly.

13. The narrator is sympathetic and said that Ender has stood up for himself.

14. His emotional state on the inside is fear and loneliness that he hasn't got any help and he didn't like to be different from the rest of the boys and be bullied, he was bullied because he was young and that his monitor shows if he is a robot

15. This implies that Peter is very brutal, mean and can injure people

The Sci-Fi genre

Question 1

It is not easy to define science fiction genre because there are so many subcategories genres. Such as horror and fantasy science fiction like Frankenstein and space western science fiction like Ender's Game. The setting of Sci-Fi in general is futuristic based on space and science and exploration. The plot usually involves, advanced technology and imagination. The desire to write such stories can be traced back as early as the second century. For example Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century, Ibn al-Nafis' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century, and Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in the 19th century. In the 21st century, we have Star Wars, 2012 and the day after tomorrow are all written in the 21st century. There are many other genres that directly or indirectly affecting sci-fi such as millitary SF, superhuman and apocalyptic.

  

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#Military_SF

Question 2

There are too many sub categories to put down, these are some general ones.

·         Hard science fiction – Type of stories that rely heavily on classic science fiction. Writer generally needs to have a good knowledge of Science and Technology, for example, Issac Asminov

·         Other worlds – Setting are on other planets, for example, Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

·         First contact- Stories based on contact between aliens and humans for example, the movie “E.T.”

·         Space exploration – Stories where characters explores space

·         Cyberpunk- Stories that write about advancement through technology such as robots

·         Near-future science fiction- Stories that take place in the future and includes technology that is in real life or in development

·         Time Travel- Stories where characters that travel to the past of future or visited by time travellers.

·         Military science fiction- Combat and wars in the future against aliens, “Ender’s game” by Orson Scott Card is an example

·         Sociological science fiction- Stories that talk about future of social sciences instead of hard technology and focusing on individuals and social groups.

·         Light/humorous science fiction- Spoof of science fiction, one example of a book made to a movie is “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

·         Science fantasy/future fantasy- Based on a few elements on science but ignore scientific principles involved.

·         Cross-Genre- Novels mixing science fiction with fantasy, romance, mystery, suspense and other genres.

·         Space opera- Similar to space westerns where good guys shoot bad guys in space, one famous example is “Star Wars”

Source:

http://wordsharpeners.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/science-fiction-genre/

3.

When reading a book or watching a movie, there are techniques in the book that is made as science fiction, it very easy to see if a movie is Science-Fiction, basically because if you see any movies or read any books and if it includes robots, space, aliens and about the future or future wars, then it is Science Fiction. Here are a few example on which types of sub genres which include science fiction:

Hard SF- "A fall of Moon dust" by Arthur C. Clark: Talks about space and planets such as the moon.

Soft and social SF: Psychology, economics, political science, sociology and anthropology


Cyberpunk- "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke. Timeline of the story was in the near future


Time travel- "Back to the future" by Michael Klastorin and Sally Hibbin. Going to the past (and the future) using a time machine car.


Alternate History- Historical events that were not written as in real life (history was tweaked for a few stories) "The man in the castle" by Phillip K. Dick, this was where Germany and Japan win World War II.


Military SF- "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Space and galactic wars.


Superhuman- Human Enchantment, basically, humans having powers such as super strength and many other things.


Apocalyptic: End of civilisation through wars, spacial impact and other things


Space Opera: Adventure science fiction on other planets


Space Western: Good guys shooting bad guys in other planets with future weapons