Sometimes you can be your biggest enemy. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card which shows allusion where the main character deals with the demon of comparison. In addition, we read “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier that shows character development, where a young girl learns from grave mistakes. And finally, “Miniver Cheevy” by Edwin Arlington Robinson that shows figurative language, creating a sad image of a man who’s wasted his life away. All three of these pieces have one thing in common, and that is all the protagonists all come to war with themselves, these characters may not understand that individuals end up failing when they come to conflict with themselves.
No matter the circumstance, never lose sight of what one truly embodies. In Ender’s Game we meet Ender, a young boy who must take on frank and cruel command of many people.
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Lizabeth is a fourteen-year-old, African American girl who is growing up in the Great Depression. She’s witnessed extreme hunger and poverty, which is shown: “In those days everyone was as hungry and ill clad as we were.” She knew that everyone around her was in this together. “Poverty was a cage in which we were all trapped” (3). When Lizabeth attacks Ms. Lottie’s marigolds, she does it on reflex, she sees that everyone around her is suffering, so the one symbol of hope she destroys in attempt to make herself feel larger or superior to these flowers that brought happiness in time of depression. Immediately after, she doesn’t feel any self-pride from her actions, proving that the war that was playing inside her head was only made worse. Overall, character development plays a large part in telling the short story. Lizabeth learns from her actions and though things around are tough, she must stay strong not only for herself but the people around
The Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card provides understanding of the characters and their relationships with others through indirect characterization and diction. Orson Scott Card uses literacy devices and specific word choice to let the reader draw conclusions about the characters and the relationships between Peter and Ender, the symbolism of the bugger mask/bugger-astronaut game, and the foreshadowing of Peter and Valentines death. The author reveals the relationship between Peter and Ender through Peter’s perception of Ender and the astronaut-bugger game. “Ender did not see Peter as […]
Introduction: Ender is one of the main characters in this book, Ender is intelligent on and off the battlefield he is the youngest in the salamander army but he is more skillful than anyone else in the army. The book Ender’s game is written by Dr son Scott Card, This book was the Hugo and Nebula winner.
In Orson Scott Card’s novel, “Ender’s Game”, you have a story about a young man who is called out to fulfill the needs of many. Ender has a respective set of skills that make him stand out among the others. One of them is that he has the knowledge and the compassion to understand the enemy. This wonderful skill that Ender has is the motivating force that drives him to complete his journey from the beginning to the end. On the other hand, you have Ender having the ability to be Christ, or otherwise, a Christ Figure. The leading key ideas are that “Ender, like Christ, […] acts as a mediator between mankind and the higher beings”. He is also “playing a sacrificial role to save
Ender’s game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott card it was published in 1985. This book is in the future when in the story earth has been invaded by an alien race and is almost destroyed by the invasion but wins the battle and to prevent earth from being destroyed if they return they create the International fleet which recruits kids an teaches them to be commanders. The chapter that I am going to analyze is chapter one which is called Third. This chapter shows how Ender is being manipulated since the start and how he has to deal with being different by being a third.
The short story is set in the period of The Great Depression, and lower classes especially struggled in this hard time. The Great Depression attacked the nation by society class. The lower levels struggled even more than usual. Lizbeth lived in a small rural town with a few members of her family. Her father and mother worked all day and Lizbeth and her brother, Joey, would hang out with other teenagers in their community to waste the daylight. The community always helped each other out but there was this one woman, Miss Lottie who played an important role in young Lizbeth’s
Miss Lottie’s garden grows marigolds, which are often mentioned in the story. In the story these marigolds are like a symbol of Lizabeths innocence. In the end of the story Lizabeth destroys the flowers, and after acts very differently. As the story describes it, “… and as I look back upon it, I know that
Therefore, Ender shows the reader that he takes responsibility as an adult for just waking up early and on time for his battles. Therefor, Ender taking that responsibility must be hard since he's just a kid and has to be responsible for
In the beginning of the book, Ender is ashamed when his decisions harm others. After receiving ‘special treatment’ on his way to Battle School, Ender is being harassed
Ender’s Game involves five types of conflicts. Man vs. Man: According to the children, “The teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other…the old bastards are watching us, studying us, discovering our weak points, deciding...
A little girl of 7 years of age sat, cheerfully playing with her brother and sister in the middle of a public road that led to her home. She played quite happily, not knowing that her life was about to change drastically. Suddenly, she was seized and taken away from her home, away from her parents, away from the place she had called her home . For the next 13 years, she was relentlessly beaten, made to work under poor circumstances, and abused. Her life was horrible as she was used to work for other people’s advantages and pleasures. Have you been used for other people’s advantages? In the book, “Enders Game”, Ender is forced to leave his home, his family, and everything that he ever knew for a place that was unknown, untraveled, and unfamiliar just like the girl. Because he was small and young and didn’t know better, he was forced to fight the buggers to save the world, and in order to do that, he participated in a genocide killing of the buggers. We believe, that in spite of this crime, he didn’t deserve to be arrested. We believe that he shouldn’t have been treated the way he was because he was too young and didn’t know better, he was manipulated and used for others advantages, and he believed what the others had told him, that it was only a game.
Eugenia Collier’s “Marigolds” is a memoir of a colored girl living in the Great Depression. The story does not focus on the troubles society presents to the narrator (Elizabeth), but rather is focused on the conflict within her. Collier uses marigolds to show that the changes from childhood to adulthood cause fear in Elizabeth, which is the enemy of compassion and hope.
In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Enders Game, at the age of six, Ender is chosen by Colonel Graff and the International Fleet to help save mankind from the buggers. However, through his journey, he experiences manipulation and deception from significant figures that surround his life. This deceit from Colonel Graff, Valentine, and Mazor Rackham is focused on defeating the buggers in the Third Invasion.
“There are not many teenagers in Ender’s world. Instead, there is a sharp distinction drawn between children and adults, who are often set at odds. Adults attempt to manipulate and control children, who they often see as tools they can use to win their own battles. Children, or at least the smart ones, mistrust adults and often see them as the enemy, and are portrayed in many ways as more intelligent and compassionate. Children are also shown having
One key component that is produced through Ender’s struggles at his young age is self-reliance. Ender is born unto a family where he is seen as an outcast; he’s a “third.” In a world where population control is major concern, a third-born child is looked upon in disgust. He is isolated even before he is brought into the world. John Kessel reveals his insights into Card’s interpretation of Ender’s exploitation when he says,” Orson Scott Card presents a harrowing tale of abuse. Ender’s parents and older brother (. . .) either ignore the abuse of Ender or participate in it” (Kessel 1). No one contributes more to this abuse than his older brother, Peter. Along with his birth, jealousy and hatred are especially common towards Ender. This disapproving outlook is particularly apparent from Peter. Peter let’s Ender know hi...
Lottie doesn’t have anything wrong with her on the outside for she isn’t in a very low class citizen. She isn't rich, but shes ok. Her son is mentally retarded so that bond between them is lost because of his condition. Her source of happiness is planting marigold flowers because they represent hope and happiness. They grow for her and look beautiful, they are so lively that people notice. Then there’s Lizabeth, a young teen living the life of a poor, depressed, and underestimated child. She can’t handle her life anymore, so she rages uncontrollably towards the marigolds in Miss Lottie's yard. Before that incident which made her more mature, Lizabeth explained to us, “Miss Lottie’s marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture.. Certainly didn't fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yard.”(p.79) This gives the reader a visual on how those flowers were perhaps the only good thing physically around Lizabeth and Miss Lottie. Lizabeth's motive was to make everything else feel the same sad way she felt, but her end result was more regretful. Miss Lottie was already sad, she was already depressed, and those marigolds being destroyed put her farther back in her life. Her loneliness was more noticeable than ever, making her relate to Mayella and Crooks