Things Fall Apart Dialectical Journal Analysis

Ender had beaten up a kid named Stilson because he was bullying Ender and Ender wanted it to end so he beat him up really bad so Stilson and his gang wouldn’t come back and bully him again. Ender is a third child and that’s why the kids would point and laugh at him. When they walk into public everyone stares at them. A third where they live is unusual because u were only suppose to have 2 kids and if you do have a third then that messes up a lot of things for you. But before Ender was born his parents signed him over to the government. So anything the government wanted him to do he had to. Like when they wanted to take Ender to battle school his mother said no, but she didnt have any say so becasue she signed him over to the

This is the modern, everyday life of many unfortunate people. For People of all ages. You can hear on the news about wives and children and even husbands who were killed in acts of rage and domestic violence. Even though I am unable to relate to this certain passage, I was still touched and I actually felt sympathy for these fictitious characters.

  First, the exposition introduces us to the setting which is a future Earth under attack from aliens called Buggers and also to the protagonist, Ender, a boy who displays both intelligence and a potential for violence. Ender is an ordinary boy who lives with his mother and father who lives in the futuristic world where the earth is under attack from aliens called Buggers. When Ender self-defends himself from bullies, people notice intelligence and violence in him. For this reason, the higher-ups recruit Ender to Battle School where he is trained for the Bugger Wars. This background

On page 31, Card writes "The fear stayed, all throughout dinner as no one sat by him in the mess hall. The other boys were talking about things- the big scoreboard on one wall, the food, the bigger kids. Ender could only watch in isolation." Even in a new environment where he knows no one, Ender is still isolated and cannot manage to fit in with the other kids at battle school. As the story continues, Ender manages to make a few friends but he never becomes exceptionally close with anyone due to the fact that he is not like the others at battle school which the commanders such as Graff make very well known. Ender is much more intelligent and quick minded than the others, making his advancement in battle school quite rapid, leaving his acquaintances and the few he calls friends in his shadow. Ender's skills make him isolated since no one can even come close to defeating him, thus he cannot relate to his peers. At the beginning of Chapter 15; The Speaker of the Dead Ender, Ender is not brought back home to earth. Card formulates, " At first Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted

1) Ok... so all these people are confusing me with their logic. There was the philosopher who tried to have his horse survive on nothing, and then the horse died. It seems like he doesn’t realize that the horse may of died of, oh I don’t know, starvation. The board is all fat, rich people who decide that the poor people are too happy, so they cut their food down to practically nothing and stripped families if they couldn’t afford stuff. Then these FAT men who are starving people probably to death soon, are suprised when someone finally asks for a little more food, claiming it’s so outrageous that Oliver deserves death. Are these those really awful person we were warned about? It’s only chapter 2.

So they’d leave me alone.” Secondly Colonel Graff also had a great influence on Ender. Upon entering the battle school, Colonel Graff pointed Ender out as a “star student” among all the others. This got them aggravated and made it extremely hard for Ender to make and keep friends. This was all part of the Colonels plan to isolate Ender from the other boys in order to open up his creativity and brilliance.

When Ender gets to Battle School he is already disliked for being so young and small. Graff calls him out in front of everyone multiple times. The other kids do not like that at all and they pick on Ender for it. He likes to get under Enders skin because he is just pushing him. Ender gets fed up with Graffs games when he finds out he tricked him about the final battle. “Why you gotta be so rude? Don't you know I'm human too” are lyrics from a quirky song about a girl that annoys a boy, like Graff seems to do to Ender. On page 35 Ender says to Graff “You made them hate me.” “So? What will you do about it?” responds Graff. Knowing what he just did annoyed Ender.

Ender’s Game is a novel about kids getting stripped of their childhood in order to be tested to see if the kids have enough intelligence and skills to go to the battle school. Futuristic Ender ha those skills and he is sent to battle school in order to become the next big leader and soldier. Card characterizes Ender as this altruistic child in order to reveal how isolating a juvenile can make them listen to others ideas and have magnificent listening skills. Using direct and indirect characterization, Card uses Ender’s thoughts, emotions, and body language to convey to his readers that not all the isolated kids end up like Graff or Peter personality-wise, they’re not these narcissistic people who think they are the biggest and strongest when they’re really not.

A kid behind Ender repeatedly hits him over the head, so Ender pulls on his arm, causing him to go flying And break his arm on the wall. Ender didn’t mean to hurt the kid and feels quite guilty. After they had docked, Ender waited for all the boys to go so he could talk

In order for some to reach their fullest potential, they need to have some stiff competition and be pressured in ways they have not before. In this case, Ender is pushed out of his comfort zone and reaching his fullest potential while he is at space school. Specifically, when he battles. For instance, in the book it states, “We have a battle with the Rabbit Army at 0700. I want us warmed up in gravity and ready to go” (page 176). Everyone is anxious to head to battle, including Ender. They force him to battle even if he was not fully ready or fully comfortable with it yet. It made him determined even more. He was making decisions that were life threatening in some cases. Soon after the battle was over, Ender receives a piece of paper

Throughout the book Ender is forced into playing game after game. But unlike simple games children play for fun none of the games that Ender plays are what they seem and in the end even though he is normally the victor they are anything but fun for him. In the early chapters of the book we see Ender at home with his brother and sister playing a game of “buggers and astronauts”. A game Ender’s brother Peter uses as a form of torture against Ender. This is the only game in the book we see that Ender does not win, the meaning behind this lose I believe shows how Ender is not willing to do the one thing needed to win at this point in his life and that is be as brutal as his brother consciously. The next major game we see is a psychological game designed to understand Ender, the administration monitors the game to try and figure him out, he just plays the game because he wants to win and the game itself is designed to make him lose. Though a vicious tactic never seen before ender beats the unbeatable game but this scares Ender because he begins to question how like his brother he actually is. The major game of battle school is an antigravity war with the students formed into several Army’s. Ender quickly uses his mind to become the best play in this game and is given his own Army. Through the use of compassion, brilliance, and an unyielding demand for excellence his Army becomes a undefeated Juggernaut. The administration trying to push

Peter is an evil person from nature. He hates Ender for being superior to him, and even tells Ender that he wants to kill him. The first time Ender acknowledges his killer instincts is when a boy named Stilson confronts him with his minions and they all begin to bully him. Ender begins to rationalize a method that will stop Stilson and his group from messing with him again. He realized that the only possible way for this to happen is for him to stand up for himself. Ender kicks high enough to hit Stilson in the chest. In the book the author Orson Scott Card states, “It was forbidden to strike the opponent who lay helpless on the ground; only and animal would do that. So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs.”(7) Ender knew what he was doing, but decided it was what he had to do in order for him to win, and for Stilson and them to leave him alone for ever. He knew taking out the leader would inevitably stop the assault they were planning to do on him. Just to make sure, Ender decided to tell them something that would utterly scare them away. Scott states, “Ender looked at the others coldly. You might be having some idea to gang up on me. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me.” (7) For a moment Ender lost all of the compassion he holds so dear to himself, and replaced it

Ender is the third child in the future Earth where most people think that two kids are enough. In this future, having three kids is a little embarrassing and expensive. But the government thought Ender’s brother(Peter) and sister(Valentine) were so intelligent and smart that they gave his parents permission to have another kid. Which is all well and good, but it doesn’t stop the other kids in school from calling Ender a “Third” and picking on him. Ender starts out with a problem right from the very beginning. He is always picked on, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself(and to get his message across).He is picked/bullied on throughout the whole book, especially at battle school. Also,

The second reason why Ender has been shaped in the way the has been, is because he becomes stronger than ever before. Before Ender went to this school, he was very weak, and could not stand up for himself when other kids picked on him. He just let the other students just walk all over him. However, when Ender came into the school, the realized that he needed to become stronger to survive here. In the text, it states “‘ Wait’ said Bean. ‘Where are you going? Tactical? Navigational? Support?’ ‘Command School,’ Ender answered. ‘Pre-command?’ ‘Command,’ said Ender, and then he was out the door. Anderson followed him closely. Bean grabbed Colonel Graff by the sleeve. ‘ Nobody goes to Command School until they’re sixteen!’... Nobody went to Command School without three years of Pre-command in either Tactical or Support.” (223). This shows that Ender was strong enough to skip a full 3 years in Pre-command School, and skip straight to Command School. This is another reason why Ender has changed throughout the book.

The officers took note that Ender seemed happier after the letter. Graff had prepared rigged battles for Ender, so see how he would deal with them. Ender was taken to his new quarters as a commander. He got an army named “Dragon Army”, which was said to lose 2/3 of their battles. After meeting up with his troops and organizing everyone into their bunks, they all headed to the battle room. He taught them how to fight in a different style, where they used their knees as shields and orientate themselves so the door would be downwards. During the session, Ender picked on a small kid named Bean. Ender gave the kid a similar treatment to how Graff treated him. Bean demanded a toon, and Ender gave him his standards and expectations on how to be