chapter 2 and 3 questions

1.  (9) Who are speaking at the beginning of the chapter again?

A: the start of chapter 2 begins with soldiers talking.

2.  From what these voices say what can we speculate the ‘monitor’ allowed these people to do with Ender?

A:the first sentence of chapter 2 says “ you live inside somebodys body for a few years, you get used to it.” This gives us a rough idea of what the monitor was doing.

3.  How do the soldiers react to Ender attacking the bully?

A: he embraced his actions and new the he was the child that they needed to save the world.

4.  What effect do the soldiers admit that they had on Ender’s brother Peter?

A:  thhe soldiers originally thought that peter was the right soldier to become a commander but would not suit battle school.

5.  What voice do we switch into when the soldiers section of the text is through?

Valenine is that last person he is speaking at the end of the text.

6.  (10) What is Ender’s sister’s name and what is implied by her name?

A:  enders sisters name is Valentine,  it is implied by her name that she is comforting.

7.  What are the two sides of Peter?

A: there is the angry bully side of peter and then there is the side where he really cares about ender.

8.  (11) What do we learn about the greater world from the description of the game that Peter forces Ender to play called Buggers vs. Astronauts?

A:  we learn about the risk of the buggers and how he describes how close they were to destroying it.

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

10. (15) Who tells the Enders to have 3 children? What does this tell us about the power of the government?  The government told enders parents to have a third child, This shows how powerful the government is.

11. What does Ender do at the end of the chapter? What emotional state is he in? Why?

A: He is in a very sad emotional state because it may be the last time he will ever see his family again.

 Chapter 3

1.  What does Ender get chosen for in the end? Why does he get picked?

He was chosen as a launchy to start. He gets picked because of what he did when they they removed the monitor and what he did to stilson.

2. What reservations does Ender have?

            

 What does the soldier say about religion and large families? So is this a religious or secular society? Why?

3. What does ‘Third’ mean? Why is this such a big deal?

“Third” mean a third child when your only supposed ot have 2

4.       What do we learn about the ‘society’ what countries on earth make it up?

5. What big decision does Ender have to make? What are the reasons against it/for it? What does he decide? Why? What would you decide?

The decision is whether he is going to go to battle school. A reason for it is so he can become a commander like in the movies and especially so he can stay away from peter. He deosn’t want to go because he will miss his parents, valentine and a normal life. He decides to go with graff to battle schoolwhen he thought of all the movies of the bugger wars and especially because that graff said theat he might just save to world. I would go because I would want to get away from peter and because I had been selected as being the right person for the job.

CHAPTER FIVE ENDERS GAME ( GAMES )

1. Who is the room leader?

ender gets given the worst bunk next to the door and on the floor, then according to a message he read in his locker his bunk is for the chief officer, this meaning that he is the room  leader.

2. What role does Dap play to the boys?

quote: " my name is dap, I will be your  mom for the next few months." He helps people if they get lost in the school etc

3.mick is a launchie form the battle school who has not done so well, all his friends are commanders except for him. He tells ender to eat nutritious stuff, but more importantly he tells ender how the officers like to single people out and make people hate them so he then tells ender the importance of making friends and how it will help you succeed in battle school.

4.  enders misses home. he is upset because he may never see his parents or valentine again. He is upset at the fact that he may not have a normal life.

5. ender goes to the games room to play a tactics game. He meets an older boy who he wants to play in this video game. At first he looses to him because it was his first time playing it. As he gets used to the controls, after the first game he beats the older more experianced player. Bernard is an IF officer helping in battle school. He is the one who is quitely getting all the other launchies to hate Ender by making him seem like a suck up.

chapter 4 questions

1.  How do the updates from the soldiers at the start of the chapter represent dramatic irony?

all the children at the start of the chapter are critisising each other then a soldier mentions that graff likes to single out people and make the other launchies hate them.

2. we know that the society is capitalistic because of the man in the chapter claiming he has worked hard and deserves a raise.

3. we know that there is censroship because of when ender tries to run up to the camera to say his final words  to valnetine but it is censored.

4. graff views humans as tools to save the world.

5. graff says that if you do  bad things as soldiers you will get iced ( asked to leave battle school )

6.  Ender has been given the role to command a fleet against the buggers.

effective techniques in enders game

One technique that the author has successfully utilized is the use of third person in the first four chapters in the game. The author has started the first four chapters of enders game with a conversation between the soldiers who a uknown at the start. they have done this so the reader learn about ender better and to help the reader get an insight  in to what is happening. The third person omniscent allows the reader to know enders emotions and thoughts throughout the book.
Examples of this technique: chapter 1 - "I have watched through his eyes, listened through his ears, and I tell you he is the one. Or at least as close as we are going to get."
chapter 2 -  "All right it's off. how is he doing. you live inside somebodies body for a few years, you get used to it. I look at his face now. I cant tell whats going on. Im not used to seeing  his facial expressions. im used to feleing them."
the main reasons that the author has used this technique in the book is so that we can get multiple perspectives on ender and it can occasionally help set the plot.

enders game notes and more

- 3rd person omniscient - narrator all knowing
- multiple perspectives
. dramatic irony
- dialogue
. description - sparce
action - developes characters

Style – What do you know about the types of words and sentences author uses?

1-2-pgs^

-          Lenghth

-          Sophistication

-          Punctuation

-          Grammar

-          Complexity

PARTS OF SPEECH

-          Verbs – active – “got to kill some buggers”

Static – “ender tried to imagine the little device missing from the back of his neck”

-          Adverbs m –

-          Adjectives – “that I’ll just be a normal kid now”

 SETTING FOR ENDERS GAME

Battle school:

- space ship/ station

-  battle school

Earth:

-          Home

-           School

-          North Carolina

Virtual:

-          Internet servers

-          Fantasy game: monitors and disk computers

WHY DO SETTINGS MATTER?

-          Info

-          Genre – creates story e.g. whether it is science fiction or not

-          Mood – feeling and emotion

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STUDENT SPEAK TO TEACHER GEEK

PETER

LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDER’S CHARACTER/ PERSONALLITY

BAD GUY = ANTAGONIST

GOOD GUY = PROTAGONIST

SPEAKS = DIALOGUE

ROUND CHARACTER – REALITY/EMOTIONAL PERSON – PERSONALLITY

FLAT CHARACTER = OPPOSITE ^

TECHNIQUES

ENDERS MOTIONS ABOUT VIOLENCE – VIOLENCE

                                                                      SITUATION

                                                                      VIOLENCE = BAD

Living At Home Year 2040

As John Shield arrived home, he stepped off his gravity powered hover board. Slowly making his way across the neon tiles that were colour ordered from coolest to hottest to lead him up to his front door, he stopped at the door and smiled as he remembered his days as a kid when he had to use a key to get in the front door. “Things have changed” he said to himself as his smile grew in to a lough.  Now he is living on planet Mars after 2029 when there was enough grown oxygen on Mars to be able to live on it. John swiped his finger along the DNA pad and less than a second later the door clicked open.  Life was easy for John shield, he never had to move a bone. At 3pm every day the house would automatically shift everything in to the place where It belonged, even the smallest crumbs dissolved on the floor tiles. There were no such things as window blinds anymore, instead windows just tinted themselves black.  John rarely needed to tell the windows to be tinted, 20 of the 30 hour days were during night.  As john walked upstairs he stopped at his bathroom to clean his teeth, so  he clicked the button on the speaker and repeated his name and smiled at the camera as the lasers shot out and removed all the bacteria on his teeth within seconds. Creeping up to his bed tube, John repeated “ bed on, 20 degrees” and the lights around the bed tube flashed red. John took a deep breath of relief as the platform lifted him in to the bed tube. As john squeezed his eyes shut, the other half of the bed tube smoothly slid over him. His day in the year 2040 was at an end.

SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

With the creation of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells created a body of work that became popular sections of society. They ideas came from mythology. Wells' “The War of the Worlds” describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry. This was  a horror story which has very much inspired science fiction . other genres such as fantasy have also greatly influenced sci fi, beginning with its first ever novel of Beowulf which is still well known today.

There are many subgenres of science fiction which  includes; Space Western, a subgenre of science fiction, primarily used in film and television.  It transposes themes of American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers, it is the complement of the science fiction Western, which transposes science fiction themes onto an American Western setting. An example of a text that has come from a space western genre is one of the most famous tv series star trek and another example of space western is space rangers,  about a group called the space marines who try to save a planet that struggles to survive . Gothic science fiction; this is a science fiction subgenre that involves gothic conventions, commonly involving things such as vampires etc. An example of a gothic science fiction text would be Frankenstein, about a crazy scientist who tries to revive a dead person who ends up becoming a zombie. Another example of a gothic science fiction text would be Dracula, a story of an English mean who meats count Dracula and later on realises he is a vampire who’s desire is to suck peoples blood . Another genre such as science fantasy which gives a veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the real world under any circumstances. An example of science fantasy would be the very famous movie(s) star wars, a series set a long time ago out in distant galaxies, and example would be where people from all over space try to destroy a the evil characters who try to take over the universe. Another sub -genre is comic science fiction. This is like regular science fiction except it usually a sarcastic version of it which applies humour etc. An example of text that is comic science fiction would be the movie series of scary movie, these movies have the same characters and  their story lines in which they come from mixed together  from other movies such the ring and war of the worlds and making it funny by giving these famous characters a funny personality and making them do and say funny things as they’re on their journey . There are more examples of science fiction such as space opera, this genre emphasises romantic, often melodramatic adventures, and the majority of the time it is set in outer space. And example of space opera would be doctor, which is not set in space. It is about a doctor who has come from a different planet in form of a human to stop catastrophic events from happening.

There are many conventions that make up science fiction;

-  A setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in an historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record.

 -  A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens.

 - Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature.

- Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or new technology.

These are the conventions of sub genres for science fiction of sub genres such as horror, fantasy, military science fiction, super heroes etc;

Horror – conventions for horror can include unrealistic paranormal activity or exaggerated gore to frighten viewers.

Military science fiction –  conventions for military science fiction is usually about having a war with armies of large numbers, usually in the future or space.

Super heroes – conventions of super heroes science fiction usually includes characters who have super strength or can fly etc and usually “ save the day” in the end.