Ender's Game Personal Response
“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”(Michael Jordan). Negative life experiences can influence a person by positively changing his or her lives.
A person can realize what they committed was immoral and make a difference in society as a whole, but essentially himself or herself. For instance, in Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender enters the bugger queen’s hive to find her egg and has a vision of the queen communicating with him. Consequently, he contemplates about his unjustifiable actions and shows his generosity by taking the egg and states that he will spread the queen’s message. Ender’s confrontation with his …show more content…
He is deeply touched by the vision with the queen and takes the egg as a reminder of what he was. However, Ender’s responsibility to spread the queen’s message is a foreshadow of what he will be. The egg is like a peace treaty to his people to show that the buggers were unhostile creatures unlike Ender and his people. Therefore, he wants become a person that will not shy away from his mistakes but fix them. Also, Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, survived a shark attack but lost her left arm at the age of thirteen. Despite the trauma of the incident, three weeks later, she was adamant to return back to surfing by teaching herself how to surf with only one arm. Bethany Hamilton’s near death experience has evoked a sense of determination in her that has caused her to be one of the best surfers in the world. Insteads of grieving about the accomplishments she could have had prior, she has achieved those accomplishments. The next two years following her attack, she
A person can realize what they committed was immoral and make a difference in society as a whole, but essentially himself or herself. For instance, in Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender enters the bugger queen’s hive to find her egg and has a vision of the queen communicating with him. Consequently, he contemplates about his unjustifiable actions and shows his generosity by taking the egg and states that he will spread the queen’s message. Ender’s confrontation with his …show more content…
He is deeply touched by the vision with the queen and takes the egg as a reminder of what he was. However, Ender’s responsibility to spread the queen’s message is a foreshadow of what he will be. The egg is like a peace treaty to his people to show that the buggers were unhostile creatures unlike Ender and his people. Therefore, he wants become a person that will not shy away from his mistakes but fix them. Also, Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, survived a shark attack but lost her left arm at the age of thirteen. Despite the trauma of the incident, three weeks later, she was adamant to return back to surfing by teaching herself how to surf with only one arm. Bethany Hamilton’s near death experience has evoked a sense of determination in her that has caused her to be one of the best surfers in the world. Insteads of grieving about the accomplishments she could have had prior, she has achieved those accomplishments. The next two years following her attack, she