Ender's Game Activity 1 & 2

Character Description

Bernard:
- gets arm broken by Ender
- tries to bully the launch group into disliking Shen and Ender
- cornered Ender in the showers
Alai:
- member of Ender's launch group
- becomes Ender's best friend
- helps him gain acceptance with the other recruits
Bonzo:
- Ender's enemy
- commander of Salamander Army
- jealous and cruel
Petra:
- in salamander army
- skilled shooter, helps Ender
Rose the Nose:
- controlling over Ender
- Ender's commander in army
Dink:
- protects Ender, smart
- Ender's leader in Rat Army
Ender:
- main character
- smart, strong, a third
- 6 years old, two siblings (Valentine and Peter)
- joins international fleet

Journal Entry



My relationship with the children and adults that come from different countries are with my friends at school who came from different places from all around the war. More specifically my relationship with someone born and living in a different country than me would be with my cousin from India. the things that I know about the country that my cousin came from is that they celebrate different holidays than what we celebrate here in Canada. Some of the holidays that my cousin celebrates that we don't include: Diwali, Holi and Vaisakhi. Diwali is the festival of lights and Holi is the festival of colours. Each holiday comes with many fun activities and rituals just as for us Canadians we go trick-or-treating on Halloween and put presents under a tree on Christmas. My cousin is much older than I am and knows how to cook different authentic Indian foods such as the wildly popular samosas that now other countries and cultures all around the world know of and eat. I know a lot of things about India and it's culture not only because a lot of my family is from there but also from the time that I went on vacation there with my parents in grade 5. My cousin has also come to visit me in Canada and told me many things about their daily routine in India. The advantages of meeting someone from a different country is that you get to learn and try many different, new things. The disadvantages are very few but it would mainly be interacting with a foreign person because they might not speak your language and they might feel uncomfortable speaking to someone new and different. I would approach someone from a different country the same way I would treat anybody when meeting somebody new because if I treat the foreign person differently they might feel awkward and scared. My overall experience with people from a different country would be good because I love to learn new things from people and I also get along easily because I love to be open and accepting.

War Artifact - S'more

https://www.smore.com/y4q0t-war

ISU blog post #3: The Glass Castle

http://psychcentral.com/lib/when-family-members-protect-alcoholics/0002847

I chose this article because it discusses the negative effects of having an alcoholic in the family which relates back to one of the few social issues in my book "The Glass Castle" -alcoholism. It discusses all of the stages and processes the family of the alcoholic have to deal with and go through in this article and what specific difficulties both the alcoholic and family goes through. In my book that i chose for my ISU "The Glass Castle", one of the main characters ,which is the father of Jeanette, is an incredibly astounding man; except for when he returns to his addiction. He deals with an alcohol addiction. His family has to endure the many hard times of when their loved one turns into someone they never want to see or even know. Jeanette's father was a smart man who enjoyed everything about physics and arithmetic, he was the one who created the entire idea of the glass castle. He would tell Jeanette and her siblings amazing stories all day of his life and what he went through and Jeannette described him as "the most relatable man (she's) ever known" but only when he was sober. He was described to be an "aggressive monster" once he was drunk by his children and wife. He got into fights with Jeanette's mom and was mean to the kids. This article discusses a lot of what Jeanette describes her life and thoughts to be in the book.

Retell, Reflect, Relate: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

In the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" it tells a story of a German/Nazi soldier's eight year old son named Bruno. The movie takes place in World War 2 and shows the events of a forbidden friendship between Bruno and a Jewish boy he found in a concentration camp one day while on an adventure when discovered the concentration camps in which the Jews are being annihilated.  It was through a pathway in the forest near his house where he saw a young boy around his age sitting on the floor inside the barbed wired concentration camp. The boy was in a blue and white striped uniform with a cap of the same color therefore Bruno knew right away he was a Jew. The boy's name was Shmole and Bruno had felt the need to be nice to him by helping him out. Bruno made an effort to come see Shmole at the fence in the same spot everyday and brought him food secretly. Bruno and Shmole's had to be a secret because Bruno's parents would be furious that their son is associating with a Jew. One day Bruno's mom had a thought that it was a bad idea to live somewhere so near the concentration camps so Bruno and his family packed up as his parents decided to move back to the city. Bruno did not want to leave Shmole like this so one day these two made a plan to bring Bruno into the concentration camps so they would not have to be separated. Bruno was given the Jews uniform by Shmole and they dug a deep hole under the fence together so Bruno could come into the concentration camps. After entering the concentration camps all of the Jews were sent into the gas chambers told it was just a shower when really they were all about to be killed. Bruno's parents noticed that Bruno had been missing for a while so they went out to search for him only to realize it was too late and their son was already trapped in the gas chambers.

This movie was insanely emotional and had everyone at the edge of their seats. It represented a lot of the difficulties and challenges the Jews and Germans had to face during World War 2 and the Holocaust. This movies main idea wasn't only about the war but also an interesting story of a forbidden friendship and loyalty.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is relatable in many ways of personal experiences that people deal with in their lives. There was lots of unfairness, racism, discrimination and cruelty towards the Jews in this movie and many races and different cultures still have to deal with the same type of inequality in today's world.