Xenocide Essays

The Ends Justify the Means The viscous bullies who get away with their bullying. The adults who fail to protect. The leaders who tell brutal lies. Ender Wiggin, a third, has to suffer all of these to save the human race from the buggers. At the beginning of this science fiction novel, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin faced a difficult choice. He was bullied by Stilson, a school boy, who pushed Ender. Ender decided that he had no choice except fight back, so he knocked Stilson

In Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, about a boy who is born to save the Earth, (Andrew) Ender Widgeon is born as a “Third” in the future where only two children are allowed per family. His siblings are Valentine and Peter. Ender’s Game, provides a unique, interesting view on post-invaded Earth. Logic is vital, in social survival. In every situation its not how large the problem is, its the technique you use to solve it. Compassion is the key to understanding other peoples

Is Ender Wiggin a Murderer? Have you ever done something but you weren’t sure whether it was ethical or not? Or have you ever wondered why some things are ethical and some things are not in society? Who decides what is ethical or not? In the book Ender’s Game, the author Orson Scott Card uses Ender as a metaphor for the choices that people have to make every day. They want to benefit themselves, but they must also choose what is ethical. The IF uses Ender to their advantage and they will do whatever

Speaker for the Dead – Quotation Analysis ***Note to Ms. Marchese: This story refers a lot to the first book in the series known as Ender’s Game, a quick summary of that book can be found here: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/endersgame/summary.html. “The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling—Demosthenes merely drops the

William Nolan Mrs. Proctor Honors English 2 8 May 2016 Intention-Based Blame: Genocide Is Child’s Play Intentions matter, but is the intent the only factor in determining the morality of an action and the means getting there? Stemming from this question, the biggest issue in Ender’s Game that is still the most controversial, still remains unresolved. Should Ender, the protagonist, be held responsible for the buggers’ deaths? This theme is the basis of Card’s belief of intention-based philosophy

the book. Despite the futuristic aspects of the war there is tons of ideas that are not too absurd. Card presents realistic dangers that could quite possibly occur in our modern day. With all of the advancements and the minds of humans peaking, a xenocide could happen with the technology we have currently. The misunderstanding that is displayed over and over again almost seems like a representation of how religious communities, like the Armenians, are often treated. Ender’s Game proposes real world

The book Speaker for the Dead is the second book in a series following up Ender’s Game. The book revolves around humanity’s finding of an other species after the tragic event of supposedly wiping an alien race into extinction. The sentient species is for the most part left alone in its habitat with only a small human settlement. The book revolves around people of the settlement and a former general know as Ender Wiggin the cause of the genocide of the alien race that he was tricked into taking part

Ender’s game is a great book, so good they made it into a movie. It’s so popular it got about 701,000 ratings on goodreads alone. I definitely think you should get this book. The story is about a boy named Ender Wiggin who has a sister who he loves named Valentine and a brother named Peter who hates him very much. Enders classmates hate ender and a group bullies attack him, he beats up the leader in order to protect himself and gets moved up to battle school where the real fun starts. The author

a variety of focuses; one being the morality of Ender Wiggin. While greatly debated, Ender Wiggin’s morality lies in the drain. Ender Wiggin vilifies himself, and while this sentiment creates empathy, it is not without reason. Even excluding the xenocide, Ender Wiggin has caused pain and death to win. He crushes almost everyone in his way, causing him to murder two children. Ender acknowledges his actions

Much More than Just a Game Classical novels, for everyone other than English teachers and professors, are held in very low regard. Most who read them will say they are boring, devoid of meaning and purpose, and not worth the time it takes to read them. In a way, these once great literary works are precisely as useless as they are characterized because they are portrayed as boring and therefore never read, so their deep inner meanings will never be brought to the light of day. Some books, more modern