Ender's Thematic Game by Carmen Dixon https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl Investigative Theme Inquiry en-us 2016-12-06 15:25:56 UTC 2025-11-14 22:23:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png *Thematic Ideas* 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142043602 2016-12-06 15:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142043602 Youth and Conformity 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142044093 The consequences of equality in Ender's case is conformity and along with that comes the loss of his youth due to premature maturity.

"But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like – history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus." (Card 7.10)

"Like children fighting with grown-ups."(Card 3.122)
 
Ender along with most humans are so willing to conform because of a social stand point, such as trying to make friends or worrying what people would think about him/them.
In Ender's case there was also another variable which was his sister. Keeping People we love out of harms way is also another thing that makes humans so vulnerable to conformity. ]]> 2016-12-06 15:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142044093 Warfare 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142604778 Warfare is one of the most important themes in Ender's Game, because if there was no war against the buggers then Ender would have never went to Battle School, and if there was no War then the government would have never allowed Ender's parents to have a third child... 
No War=No Ender...

"I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it ever day and it will get worse and worse." (Card 1.78)

Ender is justifying him wrecking Stilson and he is beginning to realize that he was born for war and must end the problem now. This is also foreshadowing the future problem with the buggers.

"Ender felt sick. He had only meant to catch the boy’s arm. No. No, he had meant to hurt him." (Card 4.66)

Ender is also battling an internal war with himself. Although he knows he is preparing for war he feels guilt within himself and decides to conform and continue to prepare for warfare

]]> 2016-12-08 16:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/142604778 The relationship between adults and children 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143037343
"Much of Ender's Game details the lives of children, and at every point they are contrasted with those of the adults around them. Although the adults often manipulate or control the children, this is not always the case. Peter and Valentine, two kids, manage to dominate the worldwide political system through their control of adults. Ender, who does not wish do exert influence over anyone, is brutally manipulated by adults, yet even they are aware of his superior intelligence. Children in this book are smaller than adults in size, but that is about the only difference."  (SparkNotes)
“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first." (Card 167)
"Children must be taken seriously, for they are capable not only of killing, manipulating, and hating—the worst features of adults—but also of creating and helping."
(SparkNotes)

]]> 2016-12-12 03:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143037343 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What If-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143037949 *What Happens in a world of conformity? *What if we had the youth fight our fights? *What if the youth were to over power the elders? *What if someone were really be born for war?]]> 2016-12-12 04:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143037949 What does a predestined world look like? 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038226 I am suggesting that Ender is predestined to be great and succeed, much like today in our recent election. Now am I referring to Ender as President Donald Trump......No but they both just win at everything, from a war against a race like the buggers or something much worse, "a twisted politician like Hillary Clinton''.(CBS)  Although some may not like Ender or Trump because they are predestined to greatness that's just another problem they get to succeed in by overcoming.]]> 2016-12-12 04:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038226 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038573 2016-12-12 04:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038573 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038609 2016-12-12 04:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038609 What if children today were worked as hard as Ender? 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038756
Ender is faced with many duties and risks as he takes the role of a soldier in the fight and destruction of the buggers. In today's society it is severely frowned upon and sometimes illegal to work a child as hard as Ender is worked and only being a young child. 
"Child labor, a major issue in the developing world, can be defined as work performed by a child under age 18 that is hazardous or harmful to his or her health and development and likely interferes with his or her education."(Pro Quest SIRS)]]> 2016-12-12 04:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143038756 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039389 2016-12-12 04:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039389 What if Child abuse was accepted? 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039442 In Ender's Dystopian word child abuse is accepted and looked over. Often throughout his life children are beat, broken, and humiliated. If Ender's case was happening in today's society then every one of those children would be sent to a foster parent or adopted by a family that would take care of them because of "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families gives states the responsibility to intervene in cases of suspected child abuse, including investigation, removing a child from the care of an abuser, educational programs and providing caseworkers, foster care or adoption." (Pro Quest SIRS)]]> 2016-12-12 04:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039442 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039781 2016-12-12 04:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039781 MLA Citations (WEBSITES 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039804
"Child Labor." Pro Quests SIRS. SIRS, 2016. Web. 2016.

"The Relationship between Adults and Children." Spark Notes. SaprkNotes, 2016. Web. 11 Dec. 2016.

"Child Abuse." Pro Quest. SIRS, 2016. Web. 11 Dec. 2016.


]]> 2016-12-12 04:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143039804 Citation (IMG 19dixonc https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143040275
Paresh. "Child Labor." Paresh. N.p.: Pro Quest, n.d. Print.

Paresh. "Child Abuse" Paresh. N.p.: Pro Quest, n.d. Print.

Trump. NYC: Life, 2016. IMG.

Ender. NYC: U/A, 2016. IMG.]]> 2016-12-12 05:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19dixonc/e86mwo7r2cl/wish/143040275