Chapter 9 Locke and Demosthenes

Who is John Locke?

* John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century
* He wanted a democracy instead of a monarchy
* His ideas influenced the motives of both the American and French Revolution
* What He wanted is that individuals should be allowed to be indivudals (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
* Some aspect of freedom you must give up to become part of a society (Social Contract)

Who is Demosthenes?
* He wanted Athens to return to its former glory

* He went on to devote his most productive years to opposing Macedon's expansion. He idealized his city and strove throughout his life to restore Athens' supremacy and motivate his compatriots against Philip II of Macedon. He sought to preserve his city's freedom and to establish an alliance against Macedon,

Effective techniques in Ender's Game

The Author has successfully utilized the use of mulitple perspectives linking in with dramatic Irony. Dramatic irony is when the reader learns and understands what is going to happen to the character before the character knows. At the start of every chapter the Author has given us a new font which indicated dialogue between two unknown characters talking about Ender. While they are talking they discuss isolation and other methods they will use to make his life hard at battle school.

page 16 "So what are we going to do?"
"Persuade him that he wants to come with us more than he wants to stay with her"
We can infer from this dialogue that these people are going to approach Ender with some sort of proposition for Ender to leave home away from his family.

page 27 "Ill have him completely separated from the rest of the boys by the time we get to the school"
from this quote we can infer that this person Graff is going to do something that will make Ender seem like an outcast to the rest of the group

The use of Dramtic irony is used sucessfully becuase it creates an idea for the reader about what is going to happen in the future. This is positive becuase the Author then can create twists in the story which then creates a much larger opportunity for the series of events. This also gives us a better idea of Ender to see whether he can overcome and predict his own future when we the reader already know what is happening.

Technological Advance

I think that the story presents technological advance as negative. I believe this becuase of the evidence in the story about the struggles between the buggers and the humans referred to as Astronauts.

I believe that the technological advance has lead to the introduction of this enemy known as buggers. There is evidence in the book that these distant beings have been discovered becuase of a space war which wouldn't have been possible without advancements in technology. Also another negative technological advancement is the introduction of battle school for young children. This technology called monitors which allow military commanders to monitor children at young ages to see whether they are fit and able to in the future become a successful military commander.

All of these advancements in technology resulted into the unnecessary military training of children and the non existent threat of buggers.Humans have a lot to do with these problems becuase all of this technology have been used by other humans to take advantage of other people which in Ender's case can have a negative impact on the young childrens lives. For example on page 27 we can see evidence of information about Ender through the dialogue of the two military men that use dramatic irony which allows the reader to understand what is going to happen to Ender which ends being very cruel and negative.

(Class Notes)
Good 
* Ender was able to kill all the buggers through the ansible contacting the fleets deep in space which will systematically attack the buggers. 
Space acknowledge
Creates oppourtunites (Educates soilders)
Explore oher planets
Sustainable life in space
Helps government find their future leaders.

Bad
* rely on technology too much
A child are able to take over the world through a desk
Governemtn become too powerful

Chapter 6 Enders Game

1. What is happening to Ender’s launch group? And what role is Ender playing?
2. Ender gives the special suit a trial. It makes him able to do things that he couldn’t normally do.
3. How do Bernard and Alai move in the suits?
4. Ender makes a connection with Alai.
5. What role is Alai voted in to? What role does he now play for the group?
6. Describe the sequence of events when Ender plays the game. What is revealed to Ender and about his personality at the conclusion of the game?

Answers:

1)      Enders Launch group had changed once they had their first time in the battle room. Ender had joined the group with the person he was enemies with Bernard. And Bernard’s best friend Alia had become Enders new friend. Ender isn’t in any leadership roles since he didn’t want to annoy Bernard.

2)      Ender discovered the different techniques when in the battle room and he discovers how to move and change direction in the different gravity zone. Also Ender discovers the gun and Alai, Bernard, Shen and Ender make a group and freeze all the other boys.

3)      Bernard and Alai move clumsily in the suits and aren’t able to control themselves when trying to move around.

4)      Ender befriends Alai and they become good friends.

5)      Alai plays the role of the bridge between groups this allows Ender to be able to interact between groups.

6)      When Ender is playing he discovers that the game is rigged and no matter what drink he takes he will die so on his last turn he kicks over both the shot glasses and claws away chunks of the giant’s eyes and goes into the giant through his eye. At the conclsion of killing the giant Ender logs off the game and tells himself I didn’t mean to kill the giant peter ought to be pound. We can infer that Ender is convincing himself that he isn’t so different from Peter than he once thought.

Conclusion of Valentine

We know from the literal information given in the book that Valentine is a very loving compassionate character this is shown by her actions towards Ender. The Author has used the juxtaposition of the two characters Valentine and Peter to balance out the struggles that go on between Ender, Valentine and Peter. We can infer that the Author chose to put Ender on the adventure becuase he was the "Third" the outcast of the family. It is Ironic that the Author has chosen Ender to play the main role in the story even though in the early chapters Ender feels that his parents didn't really want to have him. Therefore we can conclude that the Author has used Peter and Valentine in order to balance out and contrast their differences in order to in the future develop an unlikely friendship and partnership which then intertwines fate with Ender.

Chapter 1-7 Quiz

1. What person is the narrative told in?
2. What is a 'Third'?
3. What game does Peter want to play with Ender?
4. What are two reasons why Ender doesn't want to go to battle school?
5. What type of irony is used when the audience knows more than the characters?
6. How does Graff treat Ender when he first gets to battle school?
7. Who is Ender's room leader at battle school?
8. What happens when Ender goes to the games room for the first time?
9. Who is Bernard and what is Ender's relationship to him?
10. What role is Alai voted in to? What role does he now play for the group?
11. What mistake does Ender make immediately upon joining Salamander Army?

What happens to Ender in the battle against Condor that gets him recognition?

Answers

1)      third person

2)      A third is referring to the third child born in the family.

3)      Buggers and Astronauts

4)      Ender doesn’t want to go to battle school because he doesn’t want to leave home to be away from Valentine and his Parents and scared to become a different person

5)      Dramatic irony is used.

6)      Graff treats Ender really nice to make it like he was a teacher pet

7)      Daff

8)      When Ender goes to the games room he asks a group of older boys if he can play against them they firstly deny him and then finally let him play. After a few goes at trying the game he beats one of the older kids at this game. This gives him confirmation that he isn’t out of his depth

9)      Bernard is the kid that got his arm broken by ender on the trip up to battle school. They have this fierce relationship of rivalry against each other and Bernard is always trying to make Enders life hard.

10)   Alai is voted as the launchie leader, he plays the role of a bridge between the two different groups of Launches this is very beneficial for ender as he can be a part of both groups.

11)   Ender makes the mistake of making friends with the most unpopular person in the group . What gives him recognition is in the battle he gets his legs frozen and uses them to use as a shield from fire to his body this enabled him to kill many of the enemy before he got iced out.

Chapter 5 Enders Game Questions

1. Who is the room leader? (39)
2. What role does Dap play to the boys?
3. (44) Who is Mick and what advice does he give Ender?
4. (45) What does Ender miss his first night?
5. (48) What happens when Ender goes to the games room and plays an older boy for the first time?
6. (49) Who is Bernard? How is his relationship with Ender?

Answers

1)      Ender we find out later in the book that the person who’s bunk is right by the door is classified as the room leader

2)      Dap plays the role of the Mom of the room, he is the one that is helping the boys get accustomed to battle school

3)      Mick is a random person that approaches ender because he was sitting eating dinner alone. He advises Ender to kiss but and be a leader so he can advance up in the battle school positions, he tells ender to do this or you’ll end up like me with nothing.

4)      On his first night he starts to miss his family and even peter he sees himself as such a fool to have accepted to come here instead of going to school and facing such a minor problem ie Stilson every day.

5)      Ender watches closely on how the boys play and when he asks to play he gets rejected at first but then they allow him to play after a few goes of getting used to the controls the older boy gets arrogant and eventually he loses to Ender who is a first time player this creates an aura about Ender to the older boys and also gives Ender confidence about his uncertainty of being out of his depth

6)      Bernard was the boy’s arm that Ender broke on the trip to battle school and he was out to revenge. Bernard is the kind of person that torments people and tries to push Ender to the limit of frustration and is also becomes his enemy.

Characterisation Elements

 What are the Important Elements of Characterization?
 The three important elements of Characterization is how a character looks (physical description), How a character acts and how other characters in the story react to this character. In Ender's Game not much information is told to the reader the literally describe the Protagonist Ender the reader is given the task to decide and figure out what Ender is like through his actions and his thoughts. Also another idea we get of Ender throughout the book is how the other character react towards him.

 CLASS NOTES (Literal)
(Actions, Speech, Thoughts, Physical description, Other Character reactions, Persona who they are Readers reactions, Effect on others, Names, personality)

Why Characterization important?
Characterization is important in Ender's game firstly becuase it relates to one of the aspects of soft science fiction. Ender's Game is under the category of soft science fiction this means that the story

CLASS NOTES
(Create connection with characters, add interest to story insight into why things happen, add depth, Make the story more believable)

(Figurative) (Greater conclusion)

Character chapter 1-7
Ender, peter, Valentine, Graff, Bernard, (Mum+dad)
Antagonist (Bernard, Peter)

Techniques on enders game

3rd person Omniscient (Narrator all knowing)

Multiple Perspectives (Use of Dramatic irony)

heavy use of dialogue

Description (Sparce)

Action ( is used for character development ie when Ender fights and gets abused we get to understand his thoughts)

We don't have a lot of description we have action

Ender's game is soft science fiction due to the development of the story and characters

(Review) Terminator the original / Blade Runner

Reviewing Blade runner and Terminator the original:


Blade runner plot:
Blade runner is set in Los Angles in the year 2019 Harrison Ford plays a retired blade runner Rutger Hauer who's job is to kill which is called (retiring) 4 replicates that have hijacked a ship and have returned to Earth seeking their maker. A replicate is a artificial organism who looks and acts exactly like a human even to the extent of having memories uploaded to their system the replicates also have great strength so they are much dominant over normal humans. Blade Runners use special tests to distinguish the difference between a replicate and real human. The replicates are trying to fiend their maker so they can try to find a solution to make them  live longer so therefore they will be unstoppable. Its Rutger's job to track down and retire these replicates before they reach their maker.

Terminator plot:
A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector Kyle Reese also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sarah, Kyle Reese has to find a way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg before he terminates Sarah Connor.

How do these films relate to Science Fiction:
We can clearly see in both films that there is evidence of both soft and hard science fiction. For example at the start of the Terminator movie both Kyle Reese and the cyborg have used time travel to appear. What is similar in both movies that there are evidence of advanced artificial organisms. Arnold Schwarzenegger who plays the cyborg is depicted as an indestructible with amazing strength this is consistent with blade runner becuase Harrison playing Rutger Hauer plays a similar role to Kyle Reese Micheal Biehn. Rutger must also face these super replicates which have similar properties to the terminator.

Compare and contrast these films:
In both these films they both are similar to do with the artificial lifeforms which the main character have to destroy the which are the replicates and the Terminator. Although these films have different aspects to them; both of these films are classified in the cyberpunk subcategory and both have evidence of apocalyptic subcategory as well. But the main theme's are different in the movies Blade Runner is more to do with the ethics of artificial lifeforms and whether destroying them is right and what it is to be Human. terminator is more to do with how a cyborg mission is to terminate this lady but then discovers that it likes the humans and decides to stop its mission and help the humans. Also these two films are similar in the sense that they both fall under the category of soft Science Fiction being more focused on character development and less focused on scientific accuracy. Although Blade runner does have evidence of hard science fiction when in the movie one of the replicates meets its maker and discusses the possibilities of extending its lifetime and the maker disagrees and refers to science like chemistry and physic to explain how this isn't possible.

Chapter 4 Enders Game Questions

1. (27) How do the updates from the soldiers at the start of the chapter represent dramatic irony?
2. (28) How do we know that this society is capitalistic?
3. (29) Is there censorship? If so, how do you know?
4. (31) What does Ender do while Graff is speaking to the boys? How does he react to Ender? Why does he react this way?
5. (35) How does Graff view humans?
6. (36) What does Graff say about ‘doing bad things’ as soldiers?
7. What role has Ender been given for the survival of the human species?

Answers:

1)      When the soldiers discuss the future that Ender will experience in the next few months of battle school, dramatic irony is used because the reader knows the future before the protagonist knows.

2)      We get the idea of a capitalistic society when the solider asks for a raise and he gets the idea of the harder he works the more money he makes.

3)      As the reader we aren’t given any evidence of censorship but we can infer that there is censorship because Ender decides not to run in front of the camera and say goodbye to his parents and Valentine.

4)      Ender discovers that he can manipulate gravity to anyway he wanted to so while Graff is talking to the boys Ender laughs at the idea of Graff hanging from the roof. Graff lashes out at Ender for finding something as stupid as that funny. He reacts this way to by tough on the kids and explain to the boys that you can manipulate gravity on however you want to see it.

5)      Graff views humans and free until humanity needs them. Graff also says that humans are tools that others use to stay alive

6)      Graff says that if the other boys see him sucking up to the teacher they will eat him alive and make his life really hard at battle school.

7)      When Ender leaves Gaff and  Anderson talk about ender and they both agree that he is a good kid and they believe he can be great therefore its Graff’s and Andersons job to turn him into the best military commander the world has ever seen.

Chapter 3 Enders Game Questions

1. (19) What does Ender get chosen for in the end? Why does he get picked?
2. What reservations does Ender have?
3. (22) What does the soldier say about religion and large families? So is this a religious or secular society? Why?
4. What does ‘Third’ mean? Why is this such a big deal?
5. (22) What do we learn about the ‘society’ what countries on earth make it up?
6. 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?

Answers:

1)      Ender gets chosen by Graff to go to battle school; he gets picked because the military see how the kids handle not being monitored. Ender gets chosen because he was able to take care of himself in a difficult situation without the monitor.

2)      Before he tells Graff that he wants to go to battle school Ender considers which life would be better going to school and have to worry about peter. Or going to battle school away from Stilson and Peter but away from his parents and Valentine.

3)      Graff says that having over two children is unthinkable and Ender’s father is the 7^th child out of nine which is criminal. Graff says that in order to leave his family he had to renounce his religion. Therefore we can infer that it is a secular society because families are forced to renounce their faith to better their family so we can infer that to the government religion in society isn’t important.

4)      The term third refers to the third child in the family since the government only allow families to have to kids having an extra child is frowned open and even punished.

5)      We learn from the text that Enders mum comes from Utah and dad comes from Poland we can infer that America and Europe are in existent and the same government control both of these countries.

6)      Ender has to decide whether he is going to battle school and remain at home with his family. Ender has to decide if he goes to battle school he won’t have to go to school anymore and he will be far away from Stilson and Peter but also if he leaves he will be away from his parents and Valentine. I would probably decide to stay home because we know from the previous chapter that even though Peter is so tough and mean on Ender he stills loves him as a brother and probably has a soft spot. And also Since Ender already took care of Stilson at school he will think twice about trying to bully ender again so I think staying home would have been the better option.