Ender's Game by Sawyer Smith

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Slide Notes

In-text: (Card and Harris 1991)
Bibliography: Card, Orson Scott, and John Harris

Ender's Game

Published on Nov 18, 2015

A book talk on Ender's game

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ENDER'S GAME
BY ORSON SCOTT CARD

Sawyer Smith

In-text: (Card and Harris 1991)
Bibliography: Card, Orson Scott, and John Harris

Andrew Wiggin is the very dynamic main character in this story where he discovers that to save the world, he might have to become someone he doesn't like.

Ender's Game takes place mostly away from Earth in various space stations or planets. He usually doesn't have a lot of privacy as adults are watching his every move and studying him.

In this book Ender battles with himself and tries not to become a killer despite the teachers' efforts to mold him into the perfect soldier they need him to be.

VOCABULARY WORDS

Condescending:

TO LOOK DOWN ON SOMEONE.

ASTROPHYSICS:THE BRANCH OF ASTRONOMY THAT DEALS WITH THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MATTER AND RADIATION IN THE INTERIOR OF CELESTIAL BODIES AND IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE.

Vivisect: To dissect the body of something.

I really like how the the author uses foreshadowing at the very beginning of the story. He shows you a conversation between two government workers who have been watching Ender. He shows you this to prepare you for the theme of the book.

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”

- Said by Ender near the end of the book.

Citations:
Ender's Game
In-text: (Card and Harris 1991)
Bibliography: Card, Orson Scott, and John Harris. 1991. Ender's Game. New York: Tor.

Sawyer Smith