The book I read is called Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. This book is the third in
a quartet that chronicles the life of a man called Ender and his sister Valentine. In this
book, both Ender and Valentine are over 3000 years old thanks to faster-than-light-travel
and Einstein’s theory of relativity. Ender is known through out the universe as Ender the
Xenocide for destroying the Bugger race 3000 years earlier. His sister Valentine is
equally famous for her writings under the name Demonsthes. Both are assumed dead for
more than obvious reasons. Though soon enough a world in trouble will find out the truth
and learn that they are more than lucky these two extraordinary people are still alive to
help them through possible annihilation.
The book begins with Ender all ready on Lusitania and married to the most
prominent scientist there. Valentine is on a distant planet also married and with kids
when she finds out that Ender needs her to help and she must come to Lusitania right
away. Now this would have to be a most serious problem to uproot a family from there
home and travel to a distant world, wasting years through the theory of relativity and
close to light speed travel. And it is a very serious problem. Lusitania is a new colony
planet that contains the only other sentient life forms every found by humans. The other
being the Buggers, though they were destroyed 3000 years before. Therefore strict rules
were placed upon the colonist not to associate with these life forms. They broke these
laws. This was not the largest threat though. The problem was that the sentient life forms
contain a virus in their genetic code that is deadly to all humans who come in contact
with it. Even worse, there is no cure. Therefore, Starways Congress has decided to
destroy the entire planet with the Dr. D device. This device is a molecular disrupter.
Therefore, Valentine leaves right away, knowing she would beat the Congress fleet and
help stop the destruction of Lusitania. The trip for Valentine is but weeks in length to her,
though 30 years passes on Lusitania before she arrives to the planet. They have made
little progress on a cure and the populace is starting to become restless with their
impending destruction. So right away they start trying to find a cure and other ways of
defeating the virus in order to save the planet from destruction.
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by author Ray Bradbury we are taken into a place of the future where books have become outlawed, technology is at its prime, life is fast, and human interaction is scarce. The novel is seen through the eyes of middle aged man Guy Montag. A firefighter, Ray Bradbury portrays the common firefighter as a personal who creates the fire rather than extinguishing them in order to accomplish the complete annihilation of books. Throughout the book we get to understand that Montag is a fire hungry man that takes pleasure in the destruction of books. It’s not until interacting with three individuals that open Montag’s eyes helping him realize the errors of his ways. Leading Montag to change his opinion about books, and more over to a new direction in life with a mission to preserve and bring back the life once sought out in books. These three individual characters Clarisse McClellan, Faber, and Granger transformed Montag through the methods of questioning, revealing, and teaching.
Throughout the novel, Ender gradually begins to realize that he is not so different from his brother Peter. Ender grew up being punished and beaten up just for being a third who was smarter than Peter. This explains why Ender wants nothing to do with him when he leaves home. The mind game periodically reminds Ender that he is not completely different from him through certain levels. On the first obstacle that proved difficult, he brutally
they made not only during the ship's final hours but also during the whole trip.
The tone is set in this chapter as Krakauer uses words to create an atmosphere of worry, fear, and happiness in McCandless’s mind. “The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing”(4). McCandless is on the path of death, which creates worry and fear for the young boy. “He was determined. Real gung ho. The word that comes to mind is excited,” (6). Alex is very excited and care free, which Krakauer used to his advantage in making the tone of Alex’s mind happy. The author creates tones to make the reader feel the moment as if the readers were sitting there themselves. Krakauer uses dialogue and setting to create the mixed tones of this chapter. As one can see from the quotes and scenery the author uses tones that are blunt and are to the point to make the reader feel as though the emotions are their own. Krakauer uses plenty of figurative language in this chapter. He uses figurative language to support his ideas,to express the surroundings, and tone around the character. To start the chapter he uses a simile describing the landscape of the area, “…sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed,” (9). This statement is used to make reader sense the area and set the mood for the chapter. The use of figurative language in this chapter is to make a visual representation in the readers mind. “It’s satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain” (9).
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, irony is used to convey information and it contributes to the overall theme of the novel. Written during the era of McCarthyism, Fahrenheit 451 is about a society where books are illegal. This society believes that being intellectual is bad and that a lot of things that are easily accessible today should be censored. The overall message of the book is that censorship is not beneficial to society, and that it could cause great harm to one’s intelligence and social abilities. An analysis of irony in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows that this literary technique is effective in contributing to the overall theme of the novel because it gives more than one perspective on how censorship can negatively affect a society.
other animals. They were able to do this because they told all the animals that, since they
alter people or animals -- for instance changing the genes of a fly to give it eyes on its legs.
Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley was written at a tine in history when war had ravaged much of the nation, Depression was blanketing society, and people’s wills were being put to the test. Science had become an overwhelming force for better or for worse. People had witnessed science saving and preventing millions of lives with vaccinations and such, but on the contrary, had also witnessed it kill with horrifying “factory-like” efficiency in WW I (the age of machine guns and chemical warfare). Brave New World is not intended to be a happy book, it is more Huxley’s way of describing what he believes is coming to us. He is basically saying, “This is our future”. Huxley’s writings are known for dealing with conflicts between the interest of the individual and the interests of society. Brave New World addresses this conflict in a fictional future (approximately 500 years into the future) in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed to achieve complete social stability.
technology. Today, many tend to believe that technology will ruin mankind in the future, but
The book, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, is a radical story that is interpreted as a potential caution to us, society, if we keep making poor life choices. In the novel, Huxley depicts a culture where people are programmed to live forever and forced to think that sex and drugs are. For them, the idea of having a family with a mother and a father is absolutely repulsive to think about. Even though some of Huxley’s thoughts are unrealistic, the meaning behind them can be seen today. Nowadays, the three ideas that are bringing us closer to the Brave New World true are the advancements in technology, an obsession to remain young, and the increasing rate of drug use.
Most men, but also women, were astonished when they heard she was going to contemplate flying around the equator. ...
Today, searches continue for Earhart’s wreckage. Evidence has been found that she could have possibly been stranded on the island Nikumaroro. Plans for sounding the ocean floor have been established for 2014 and we are even closer to finding out the mystery of how this woman aviator passed on. Many theories have been made, some dealing with government conspiracies, but people will not stop until the truth has been verified. Every search takes us one step closer to finding it. Even if her death is a mystery, her life was not, and her cause still lives today. The equality for women is still fought even now and she was a major part of getting us where we are.
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.