The book I'm currently reading is called "Ender's Game." It is a book by Orson Scott card. The plot of the story is simple. It tells of the life of the main character Ender who is a military genius. He has been chosen to lead an army against he buggers, who are a notorious race of ant like creatures who will kill anyone without mercy like a robot. Ender is a 6 year old boy who is confused and hated for his genius-ness.
In this story there are chosen ones and unchosen ones. In the beginning everyone is chosen and they receive monitoring from the government. After a year or two, many of them are eliminated and they return to their normal 4 year old or 5 year old lives. Losing their chosen one privilege is like saying that they are not talented enough to help out in the war between humans and buggers. There are some, however, that keep the chosen one privileged for 3 years like Ender. These are the ones that go into military tactic school out in outer space.
At the age of 6, Ender is chosen to go into the military academy in outer space. Ender doesn't want to leave his family but the only one who truly loves him is his sister. Due to his 3 years, the other kids hate him. His own brother resents him because he was only chosen for 2 years. His parents love him but also resent him because he is the past of which they tried to avoid (because of both of their children (older brother and sister of ender) only were chosen for 2 years). His older brother oftentimes bullies young Ender and his older sister stands for him.
Ender is a fragile child. Even with his extreme brilliance and superior strength, his mind is injured by the life he lived and is forced to live. His worst fear is to be alone with no one who cares or loves him. He is young flower stranded in a wide open grassy area with his sister flower next to him. He is forced to leave his sister flower and travel into another wide open grassy area with no one around him but resentment.
At first, you said that the only person who loved Ender was his sister, but then you immediately say that his parents love him too. I think that his parents loved him ever since the start till the end, and that they didn't resent him. They know that it wasn't his fault that he was chosen to leave. I didn't really know which question you picked. This seemed like just a summary of the story, but if you were aiming for question 8 and you were trying to talk about Ender's relationship with his family, you might want to use less summary and more analysis.
ReplyDeleteFor one, you did a good job summarizing the story on so far of what you read. But I don't think that this was the main point of this post. Like victor stated above you are using more summary than analyses, but other than that your up to point with the whole "to get some raw material and notes about what you've read up until this point so that when we return to the review assignment after break, you'll have raw material to work with." Also include the prompts you used to make it much easier to understand what your going at in the review.
ReplyDeleteI think you should have made it into paragraphs because it seems cluttered and not so organized, so far your summarization is good and it is pretty clear. Also I'm not sure what question your basing your draft from. Other than that it is a good summary and so far seems like a really good book to read. It definitely has me interested in ready it.
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