Orson Scott Card. Who is Orson Scott Card? Orson Scott Card (from now on OSC) is a comtempory writer from the USA. He is a prolific writer of numerous genres but best known for his sci-fi novel "Ender´s game" and the sequel "Speaker for the Dead", on which he won two of the most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo awards, in consecutive years. OSC writing is dominated moral issues and the relationship between characters. A devoted Mormon, he believes that all fiction has a strong
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.
author is Orson Scott Card. The work is written using a first-person narrative style. Ender's Game takes place in a futuristic society where humanity has discovered space flight and has come into contact with an alien race that threatens its existence. Exceptional children are trained to be military commanders, and Ender Wiggins is one of these children. Although Ender is unaware of it, humanity relies on him for its survival. Card was inspired to write the novel when he was a child. Card read the Foundation
Undermined by dread of another extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity turns to the youngsters to get ready for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the motion picture based – very loosely - on that novel. So how true to the book were these producers? Translating a 368 page military science fiction novel from 30 years back into a 2 hour film regardless of how well approached will have a few aspects of it hit the fan. With the principle
Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict
In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card the main character of the book Ender is a student in battle school. In battle school the students play a game. In this game the students are sectioned off in different armies full of 41 students. Each student wears an outfit called a flash suit. The flash suit has a gun attached to it. The gun shoots a light which when fired at a different flash suit the target wearing a flash suit gets frozen. Both teams have a door. The goal of the game is to use
“Children chosen over trained adults...to fight war…alien species: The Formics” -WSJ In Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, earth has gone through two fierce wars with an alien species called the Formics, or more commonly known as the Buggers. The first invasion, the Bugger’s were exploring life outside of their solar system. The second invasion the Bugger’s wanted to colonize earth. After the first Bugger invasion, the countries of the world decided to come together and create a single government.
In the book Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. It shows that to be a successful leader one must be ruthless, strategic and strict. Whenever Ender has fought a battle he has either killer or beat the enemy so ruthlessly that the enemy won’t even have to think twice whether to attack Ender or not After, Ender wrecks Stilson, as his justification to Graff he says, “I have to win this for now and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”(7) So basically ender is trying
Orson Scott Card uses many themes in Ender’s Game to portray the type of person that Ender is becoming. The importance of the mind game, Ender’s techniques, and isolation from others are extensive themes that provide important in depth information about the world around Ender. The situations that he is put through ultimately give the reader an understanding of what Card is trying to show while also showcasing the events that Ender is put through. Throughout the novel, Ender gradually begins to
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel that shows what would happen if the government had too much power and has a powerful angle on inequality and child labor. My novel has taught me a lot about inequality, as did my research. But I found out a lot about my main point; child labor. Child labor effects everyone without them even knowing. I’m sure you’ve unknowingly bought something that aids people who do these things to people. America is full of stores that have clothing made by children,