Thursday, 3 April 2008
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
[2] blog #6
Q. Entry of your choice.
-> What is the greatest human nature revealed in the novel?
I think it is that people always try to justify themselves when they do bad things. The government in Ender's Game intentionally made the Wiggins family to bear a "third" for humanity's sake. Ender killed Stilson while he was trying to scare him, and his reasoning was that he was protecting himself. In the mind game in chapter 6, reveals that Ender is supposed to break the rules to win the game. I think the question made by these examples is that "is it acceptable to do anything when necessary?" There is a sentence in the book saying, "Breaking orders is wrong, but a wrong that is committed in the cause of winning is fine for Ender." In chapter 4, freedom are taken away from people and the government uses people as tools to survive. Therefore, it is proven that everyone makes justifications. I think that the ultimate justification in the Ender's Game is "saving the world." For this reason, many had died, envied, and hated each other. When Graff tells Ender at the end that it was a game, his reasoning was that it was for humanity's sake. I don't think this must happen in real life despite of any condition or situation. I think when we die, we should die with pride instead of all the unmanly struggles.
-> What is the greatest human nature revealed in the novel?
I think it is that people always try to justify themselves when they do bad things. The government in Ender's Game intentionally made the Wiggins family to bear a "third" for humanity's sake. Ender killed Stilson while he was trying to scare him, and his reasoning was that he was protecting himself. In the mind game in chapter 6, reveals that Ender is supposed to break the rules to win the game. I think the question made by these examples is that "is it acceptable to do anything when necessary?" There is a sentence in the book saying, "Breaking orders is wrong, but a wrong that is committed in the cause of winning is fine for Ender." In chapter 4, freedom are taken away from people and the government uses people as tools to survive. Therefore, it is proven that everyone makes justifications. I think that the ultimate justification in the Ender's Game is "saving the world." For this reason, many had died, envied, and hated each other. When Graff tells Ender at the end that it was a game, his reasoning was that it was for humanity's sake. I don't think this must happen in real life despite of any condition or situation. I think when we die, we should die with pride instead of all the unmanly struggles.
[2] blog #5
Q. Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you thing about the passage.
p. 65 "Instead he signed off, put his desk in his locker, stripped off his clothes and pulled his blanket over him. He hadn't meant to kill the Giant. This was supposed to be a game. Not a choice between his own grisly death and an even worse murder. I'm a murderer, even when I play. Peter would be proud of me."
This passage is after Ender was playing the mind game and killed the Giant by digging into its eye. This passage is meaningful because it truly shows the personality of Ender after his personailty of Peter. This passage shows that even though he was angry and acted like what Peter would do, he felt guilty of his action unlike Peter. I think this is what ultimately differs Peter from Ender. This is also mentioned when Graff comes to Ender and picks him up the very first time at his home in Greensboro. The Battle School chose Ender and not Peter because of their reasonings or justifications. This also shows that Ender has both Peter's and Valentine's personalities because he can be cruel one time and then suddenly so caring the other.
This passage is after Ender was playing the mind game and killed the Giant by digging into its eye. This passage is meaningful because it truly shows the personality of Ender after his personailty of Peter. This passage shows that even though he was angry and acted like what Peter would do, he felt guilty of his action unlike Peter. I think this is what ultimately differs Peter from Ender. This is also mentioned when Graff comes to Ender and picks him up the very first time at his home in Greensboro. The Battle School chose Ender and not Peter because of their reasonings or justifications. This also shows that Ender has both Peter's and Valentine's personalities because he can be cruel one time and then suddenly so caring the other.
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
[2] blog #4
Q. What is the climax of this novel? Do you find this novel sadden you in any way? Why?
The climax is obvious in this novel. The climax is when Ender finds out that the simulation is not actually a game, but reality and that he annihilated the buggers. The twist for the readers in this novel was particularly strong because Card intentionally built up the novel in events so that the readers wouldn't be able to easily predict his happening. Card first made "games" of killing buggers to make soldiers both confident and relaxed while they are "practicing." Therefore, when they are actually fighting the buggers, they won't freeze or have too much tension in themselves while they're fighting. However, Card skillfully used this stereotype of a "game" so that we, as readers, won't also be expecting too much from a simple game. Then, BOOM! It was actually real. I think the novel saddened me a little bit, not becuase the fact that Ender killed all the buggers, but because how Card described Ender's feelings afterwards. This also sent a sign of a melancholy mood in the novel. The author used Ender's feelings to portray moods.
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