Card, Ender's Game

I DO like green eggs and ham!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/04/i_do_like_green_eggs_and_ham.html

"'So? What will you do about it? Crawl into a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you dam well better be.'" (Ender's Game 35)

The beginning excites me:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/04/enders_experiences_are_our_exp.html

And we thought public school was bad? The Battle Station is practically Juvie on drugs with the high-ranking teachers acting as common thugs!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/04/its_a_kid_eat_kid_space_statio.html

These people are all about the Vulcan logic.
“’The final step in your testing was to see what would happen when the monitor came off. We don’t always do it that way, but in your case—‘

“’And he passed?’ Mother was incredulous. ‘Putting the Stilson boy in the hospital? What would you have done if Andrew had killed him, given him a medal?’

“’It isn’t what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It’s why’” (Card 19).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/04/all_about_the_vulcan_logic.html

“Ender wasn’t very hungry during breakfast. He kept wondering what it would be like at school. Facing Stilson, after yesterday’s fight. What Stilson’s friends would do. Probably nothing, but he couldn’t be sure. He didn’t want to go.” (Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, pg 17)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/04/not_that_bad.html

Sci-Fi Is Actually Real
"Father came home and kept saying it was such a wonderful surprise, they had such fantastic children that the government told them to have three, and now the government didn't want to take any of them after all, so here they were with three, they still had a Third...until Ender wanted to scream at him, I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don’t have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry."

-From page 15 of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/04/scifi_is_actually_real.html

"We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/04/because_man_will_always_be_too.html

"They might even hit him now -- no one could see them anymore, and so no one would come to Ender's rescue. There were advantages to the monitor, and he would miss them" (Card, 6).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RichelleDodaro/2008/04/fear_of_freedom.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/04/humans_are_just_tools.html

"'It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind... Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. I think humanity needs me -- to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.'

'Is that all? Just tools?'

'Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive'" (Card, Ender's Game, pg 37).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/04/poor_emotional_ender.html

"Peter walked to the bed, and sure enough, he did not lift himself up to his bed. Instead he came and stood by Ender's head. But he did not reach for a pillow to smother Ender. He did not have a weapon"

Read Me!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/04/there_is_war_inside_a_war.html

If the title of my blog entry "Expendable Little Munchkins" doesn't say it enough you obviously need to read on...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/04/expendable_little_munchkins.html

"Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth" (Card 2).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/04/you_cant_handle_the_truth_but.html

Underdog + Cheater = Ender
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/04/el150_underdog_cheaters_make_m.html

-Talk about living without feeling. Being programmed to kill. Being alone and isolated from other and living only through murder....

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/04/this_is_my_kind_of_book.html