Endgame Essay

     The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Schott Card. It is about a young boy who is sent to battle school. He meets friends and makes adversaries. In battle school, out in space, Ender, the young boy is a genius and is taught many tactics to destroy their prime enemy the buggers. He excels in school and battles his way into command school before the required age. There he is told he is battling buggers in simulations or is he? Throughout the novel, Ender is manipulated, bullied, and isolated, which creates many themes and messages. In this novel Ender’s Game the main theme is life is a game. Three characters that best prove this are Ender, Peter, and Bonzo.

“It’s not intentions that matter, it’s actions. We re what we do and say, not what we intend to do.” (Unknown)

While Beckett’s works are often defined by their existentialist themes, Endgame seems to offer no solution to the despair and melancholia of Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell. The work is replete with overdetermination that confounds the efforts of critics and philosophers to construct a single, unified theme for the play. Beckett resisted any effort to reconcile the problems of his world, offer solutions, or quench any fears overtly. However, this surface level of understanding that aligns Beckett with the pessimism of the Modernist movement is ironically different from the symbolic understanding that Beckett promotes through his characters and the scene. Beckett’s work does not suggest total hopelessness,

THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa.

Ender’s theme: Always making a good choice for others to benefit even though it may not be the correct one. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, shows on numerous occasions that some of the choices characters in the book have to make can be very difficult including Ender. Throughout Ender’s early life, he was constantly bullied by his brother and classmates They would be waiting, though, the bad ones. It was Stilson, of course. He wasn’t bigger than most other kids, but he was bigger than Ender.

Would you be able to command a whole fleet when you were 12 years old? When Ender was 6 years old he was taken by the International Fleet to help in their fight with the buggers, an alien race that had attacked Earth many years before. Little does he realize how much weight is being put on his shoulders and how high expectations are for him to persevere against the buggers. He is tricked, isolated, and attacked, but they claim he needs this in order to win. In the end he ends up defeating the buggers and killing their whole species, while thinking it was still a game. He then spends the rest of his life searching for a home for the buggers as well as helping the humans adapt to the new colonies. The book Ender’s game was much better than story

Keeping a person alive by excessive treatment might devastate the family and make the dying suffer tremendously in the end. “Advance medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse that only prolong dying. Dignity can be devalued amid technology focused solely on the biological organism.”

During the course of Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, the main character Andrew Wiggin, also called Ender, is cruelly isolated in an exertion to make Ender the superlative probable commander for their war against the so-thought life-threatening buggers. Foremost, everyone intimidates him about being a Third, regardless of the fact Ender’s parents had received an entreaty from the government to have a third child. His fellow classmates bully him, and even his brother makes fun of Ender. This distressing treatment from everyone around him at the beginning of the book creates a hostile and lonely atmosphere for Ender to live in.

The buggers from Orson Scott Cards Enders game and subsequent novels, at first appear to be bug eyed monsters, a science fiction cliché. However as the story develops it becomes apparent that the buggers are much more than just a cliché, they develop as a sentient species, they undergo a transformation from varelse, “the true alien” (speaker 34) into raman “the stranger that we recognise as human but of another species”. (34) As this transformation occurs Ender learns a great deal from the buggers, in this manner card illustrates that there is much one can learn from the transformation of varelse to raman.

Ender’s Game was released as a novel series in 1985. It is a science fiction novel. It was set in future time where mankind is facing annihilation by aliens. It was written by the American author Orson Scott Card. It has a unique writing style and it is what makes the book more enjoyable to read rather than if it was written in a simple style. This narrates the story of a young boy named Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a brilliant six-year old boy who lives with his parents, cruel brother Peter, and compassionate sister Valentine. Ender and his siblings were all a candidates for the training program prepared by the government agencies in order to develop a secure defense against the Formics or Buggers next attack. The officials raise child geniuses

The Article the end from the beginning re (de)finding Aboriginality written by Michael Dodson explores the notions on how Aboriginal people have been represented and perceived by the early settlers. Michael Dodson makes a critique on the language from previous historians. They Mention in the beginning that the Aboriginal people were seen as Noble savages from the prehistoric beasts, blood thirsty, cunning ferocious” that they even fell in the classification of blood types which gives an idea of an animal like classification, scientific based and based purely on Age and descent. ( Dodson, 2003: 19-20). Michael Dodson Argues the question as to how can the colonisers understand all the aspects of the indigenous people if they

Tom Stoppard employs many themes in his play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. They largely have to do with life, agency, and identity, so it is important to not take the actions or dialogue of the play literally. Most of them have deeper meanings that are applicable to any person that questions the above-stated themes. Tom Stoppard uses absurdist devices to explore the theses of humanity’s incapability to comprehend or understand death, fate and free will’s prevalence in life, and personal identity.

Both characters are contemplating suicide because they can not find meaning in life, viewing life from an absurdist perspective. This demonstrates that both characters are existential as Hamlet views life as meaningless and he needs to define his own purpose, which he does when he avenges his father's murder. Rosencrantz has been at the mercy of others actions for the entirety of the play and has no free will of his own, so he views life as absurd. What he does not realize is that he is merely just an actor or an object whose purpose preceded his existence. All three characters Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern view life as meaningless and without a purpose at different parts in both Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Viewing life as meaningless when not having a purpose is a key part of the existential philosophy. Stoppard’s work extends this idea and further proved that Hamlet is an existential

“The Winner Within” is about a life plan for team players and what it takes to be a successful team. Each chapter is based on one subject, and that subject is one of the many things that a team needs to be successful. Pat Riley shares his game plan for team players in all of life, not just on the court. All of the strategies in this book are very inspiring and motivate teamwork. I think that the first chapter in the book, ‘The Innocent Climb’, is one of the most important concepts you have to have on a team. The innocent climb is the surge that occurs within a team as they are accomplishing more because of the synergy that occurs within a team. Innocence means understanding that the team comes first and being carried along by that.

The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is famous for its cyclic storyline and non-existing plot. In the lines, Beckett incorporates themes of existentialism and the loss of hope. Throughout the two acts of the play, the main protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon, spend their days waiting aimlessly for a mysterious figure named Godot. While central in the play, Godot never makes an appearance in any act, and merely exists as a name. While Pozzo and Lucky, two other characters make their appearance in each act of the play, the boy is perhaps the most mysterious and intriguing. The boy, whom appears towards the end of each act, exemplifies the never-ending cycle of the search for hope that remains unfulfilled through the use of symbolism,