Technology Advancement within Enders Game

Technology is a key element in the advancement of the plot because every step of the way someone is using new technology to help live their lives. Ender has to fly to the Battle School then play war games in anti-gravity rooms etc. All of these advancements within the plot involve technology advancements.

Important technology elements-

• The desks
• Freezing guns
• The space suits
• Space school
• Lights leading a path to their next destination
• The nets

I believe that technology is good as it makes our life better and easier for many things that we do and that we will come across in our lives. Things such as rocket ships can help people travel faster to places and thumb print lockers can keep things safer.

Questions: 

1. Do you think that the story presents technological advance as being positive or negative? The story presents technological advancement in a good and bad way. Because people can use these technological advancements in a bad way to control or kill people but can help protect the world and make the universe a safe place.

2. What part do humans play in this advancement of technology? Do they drive the advancement or are the victims? Humans play a major role in the advancement of technology as they are the ones you think of the advancements and then create them. They do drive the advancements because we are always looking for new ways to improve our lives

Enders Game: Chapters 1-7 Quiz

1. In 3rd person
2. A 'Third' is a person who was the 3rd person to be born into a family such as Ender.
3. Astronauts vs Buggers
4. Because he will be away from Valentine and he is scared of going.
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6. He treats badly by lying to him and making him have a difficult time at Battle School.
7. Himself
8. He watches the boys play and then they invite him to play and he beats them
9. Ender and Bernard are in the same launch group and his relationship with Ender is that he is bullying him but they eventually become friends
10. Alai was voted in to the bridge between Ender's group and Bernard group. He tries to make them friends instead of enemies.
11. That they do not act as a whole army but rather individual toons
    Bonzo tells him that he is not allowed to do anything and not shoot so in the end he wins the game with having the best record in the game which earns him recognition.

Ender's Antagonists

The antagonists within Enders Game play a major role within the book. They help Ender learn to become more resilient to problems that he faces through his life and especially when he is going to fight the buggers. This shows how the Western society values adversity which can help people become better in what they do.

                                     

Enders Game- Chapter 2 Questions

1. Who are speaking at the beginning of the chapter again? Two unknown people who were talking at the beginning of Chapter 1.

1. 2. From what these voices say what can we speculate the ‘monitor’ allowed these people to do with Ender? They allowed them to watch and feel exactly what Ender does and how he feels.
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3. 3. How do the soldiers react to Ender attacking the bully? They thought that Ender passes their test.
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5. 4. What effect do the soldiers admit that they had on Ender’s brother Peter? The soldiers admit that Peter may be jealous of Ender because they spent more time Ender rather than Peter.
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7. 5. What voice do we switch into when the soldiers section of the text is through? We switch into 3rd person speaking with Ender and the nurse.
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9. 6. What is Ender’s sister’s name and what is implied by her name? Her name is Valentine and it implies that 
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7. What are the two sides of Peter? The two sides of Peter is a murderer and a bully.

8. What do we learn about the greater world from the description of the game that Peter forces Ender to play called Buggers vs. Astronauts? We learn that there are enemies called the Buggers which is an alien race and soldiers (in Astronaut suits) who are human. They are fighting against each other in a big war. 

9. What informatioin does Valentine have that she uses to keep Peter under control?

10. Who tells the Wiggins to have 3 children? What does this tell us about the power of the government? The government tells them to have three children. This tells us that the government has so much power that they decide how the country lives their lives.

11. What does Ender do at the end of the chapter? What emotional state is he in? Why? Ender cries at the end of the chapter and is in very depressed and sad emotional state because his monitor has come off so Peter is bullying him even more and he thinks his parents don't really love him.

History of Enders Game

The book Enders Game was first published in 1985. This gives me a understanding that in 1985 people thought about sci-fi in the same sort of way that we still think of sci-fi. Although we have had major technology advancements such as iPhones and iPads people 30 years ago were thinking about these advancements and were writing about these advancements in books. There are also many books and movies that are about the military genre and soft sci-fi and these have not changed over 30 years.

Enders Game- Chapter 1 Questions

1. That there is two different set of people talking in the game and that there are two sides to the story.

2. The story is in 3rd person

3. The goal is that they are going to try and capture someone who has a brother and sister who weren't good enough to be captured.

4. They are watching someone and they decide to take him. The irony is that the main character who is suppose to be the most important person in the book is being controlled by someone else who is more important.

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6. The perspective for the 2nd part of the beginning of the story is where we read about Ender Wiggin who is the main character in the book in 3rd person.

7. Theme central theme about the book is that people are trying to persuade you about things through lying.

8. That he has been one of the kids being monitored by the government.

9. He feels that he is not as important as everyone else and that he is lower than everyone else.

10. He knows that he is a lot smarter than the other boys and he thinks in a different way that makes him intelligently superior.

11. He beats up the bullies who try and beat him up.

12. His emotional state within himself is very screwed up. It seems like he has no friends and so kids bully him all the time but he beats them up and sends them to hospital. He is very smart but is still bullied at home by his brother Peter. He loves his sister, mother and father but his mother and father don't seem to know what Peter does to him. He is called a 'Third' by his brother and has a monitor on his neck which seems that he is a special boy in good ways and bad.

13. This implies that Peter is a bad person and that Ender does not want to be like him but when his monitor came off he becomes more and more like Peter.

Sci-fi Genre

Origins-

The sci-fi genre was started from as early as the 2nd Century with the novel True Story which was all about aliens, the outer space and time travel. Over the centuries there have been many sub genres such as Time Travel and Horror sci-fi. With new technologies such as electricity and the telegraph introduced new forms of sci-fi transportation. In the 1980s the Star Wars franchise helped spark a new type of sci-fi but there were other very popular sci-fi movies and TV show including Star Trek.

Categories-

• Hard Sci-fi- This genre is all about the accurate detail to physics, chemistry and astrophysics. The genre is more on the focus of the science part of sci-fi rather than a main character or destruction of the world.
• Soft Sci-fi- This genre of sci-fi is all about a main character and a storyline mostly revolving around the main character and what he/she does throughout the book or movie.
• Time Travel- This genre is all about machines that are able to send a person through time. One of the most famous novels "The Time Machine" in 1985 is one example of a Time Travel genre novel.
• Military Sci-fi- This genre is about national or interstellar armed forces wars usually involving soldiers. Military sci-fi has many parts of other genres such as Horror Sci-fi and Soft Sci-fi
• Superhuman- This genre is all about humans who have powers more powerful than the average human being. They usually include a main character through a story. A good example of Superhuman Sci-fi genre would be many of the 'Superman' movies that have been created over the years.
• Space Opera is adventure science fiction set in outer space or on distant planets, where the emphasis is on action rather than either science or characterization. The conflict is heroic, and typically on a large scale.

Conventions- Parts of certain genres in other genres of sci-fi as well. Such as there all in the future or there is new technology. 

The conventions of sci-fi are generally that they include things such as aliens or outer space creatures that try and destroy Earth. There are usually armies who fight against each other. Other conventions include having the speed of light planes or spaceships.

Many of the sci-fi genres can have romanticist couples in them who fall in love over the course of the novel or movie.