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Go through the booklet sent home in the mail and visit the page with Naplan resources.
 * Naplan **

//'But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations.' // ** --Orson Scott Card 1. //Ender's Game//: prepare for an essay similar to the ones given for exam practive during the holidays. You will need to know: a. The conventions of the science fiction genre b. How //Ender's Game// subverts the genre: - the unconventional hero: a gifted child who is an innocent killer with a conscience - the setting: physical location on the ship and the metaphysical landscape of Ender’s mind - the enemies: nebulous - the resolution: an unexpected twist; lack of closure and evil triumphs c. The main ideas of the novel: Abuse of power or hegemony - mind control, bullying, abuse of children, genocide and mind control - "I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad."; loss of innocence - “a child, our ultimate icon of vulnerability, put under almost impossible stress. It was when he decided to give up the enterprise that he won the ultimate victory; and then he became an almost tragic figure when it became clear that his victory made him obsolete, while his childhood training had left him unfit for any other kind of life" (Card; lack of humanity; alienation (giftedness) - "His isolation can't be broken,"; good vs. evil (this is blurred); the means justifies the end - "We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools."; violence - "Then a worse fear, that he //was// a killer, only better at it than Peter ever was; that it was this very trait that pleased the teachers." 2. Narrative based on one of the ideas of the novel such as: power, violence, humanity, compassion, bullying, alienation, ethics, prejudice, etc
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