Ender's Game

For my blog, I've decided to read and review the book "Ender's Game" by the American author Orson Scott Card. The book is based in the future where children are sent to schools where they're tested in many ways to see if they have an equal balance of skills and emotions. If they pass and get through the program, they're sent to a space station where they’re trained to become soldiers. The entire system is based on training the children for war. The government aims to find children who will become new leaders and fighters that they need. They believe they need this army because a while ago there was an "invasion" of bug-like aliens. The government believes that they'll be back again anytime, so they want to be prepared. I'm not going to give away any spoilers, so onto the next thing.

 Of the many people who have already read this book, most have only positive comments to make. I can do nothing but approve of these comments, because I agree with them.  The characters are well developed, the story line makes sense and is mostly easy to follow, and people just seem to fall in love with Ender's character from the first pages. This book became so popular that it was even made into a movie. Most people talk about how they loved the movie. They say it’s amazing and other praises of this sort but, as those who read this book know, the book is better than the movie.

Fahrenheit 451 Characterization

I’ve been reading a new book, called Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. One thing I’ve noticed about this book it that it has very interesting characters. Even if it is set in the future,  the characters and setting don’t seem very different from modern day life, other than people burn books and they have technology that is a little more advanced.

One character that I, personally enjoyed, is named Clarisse. She’s a young, strange girl who says she’s “seventeen and crazy…” Clarisse meets our main character, Guy Montag, when they are both taking a walk outside on a quiet night. She dies soon after, by getting hit by a car, but she changes Guy's outlook on life before she goes. She teaches him that details are sometimes the most important part of life, and people often end up missing them. I think she really changes the book and if she didnt exist, the story would have been bvery differant.

This is what I believe Clarisse looks like: