Notes on Assessment

Questions: In the Science Fiction world of Ender's Game progress is propelled by fear.

Thesis

• The fear of failure and the feel of death has propelled the need for advancement of technology in Ender's game
• The fear of the buggers and the fear of superiority had propelled the need for 

Key Words

Science Fiction

• Genre
• Conventions (What makes this science fiction, the characteristics of sci fi)

Progress

• Technological Advancements
• Species (Genetics of kids (Smart kids) buggers )
• Human Capabilities/ health
• Societal (Society's progress)
• knowledge

Propelled

• Pushing forward

Fear

• Failure ( Ender being like Peter who he is becoming, not succeeding)
• Not being advanced enough ( Failure again)
• acceptance 
• death (fearing the buggers, ender and the fantasy game)
• Loss of control (Motivates Ender to strive not to be like Peter, 'to advance his self control')
• Fear of loss of respect/ ego

Ender's Major Events

Motivation for Battle School

• Fear of Peter
• Fear of the buggers

Isolation (By Graff) - Ender; better leader, stronger character, failure/death, saviour

• Start of battle school
• room leader
• lunch  <---Has to be done, stimulated by fear of the buggers. Ender needs to be developed into this amazing leader
• launch                             
• command school

Fighting

Ender feels he must fight he has a 'fear of the future'

'if he doesn't fight now it will

 keep happening'

Stopping negative outcomes

• Stilson
• Bonzo
• Bernard (cyber)

Ender's Game Relevance 


Sci fi = fear > propell > progress

Science Fiction                                        

• Aliens
• Unknown
• Space - Battle school 
• Space travel
• technology
• Future
• Apocalypse 

Fear (Themes) 

• Vunerablity
• control
• Not being good enough - Graff/ humans, Ender
• Not being sophisticated enough
• death
• Peter - mean (Aggressive), mentally unstable

Propel

• buggers better tech
• Ender's concerns

Progress

• Weapons, Ansible
•  mental development