HELP! Have you read the book Ender's Game?
I am doing a project in which I have to chose songs and write how they relate to the theme of the novel Ender's Game. Does anyone have an idea of some songs I can use. I have already read the book.
I am doing a project in which I have to chose songs and write how they relate to the theme of the novel Ender's Game. Does anyone have an idea of some songs I can use. I have already read the book.
Ferana
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It's been a couple of years since I read that book and at least one of the following sequels, so I may be getting part of the later books mixed in, but here goes:
Nine Inch Nails from The Crow sound track--Ender is haunted by what he did in the simulation room, by the fact his siblings failed excellence is why he exists at all (the 2 birth rule being broken to try to create a child somewhere between the two different type of siblings), by the expectations all around him.
George Michael's Freedom '90--all about people wanting you to be one way because it works for them, even though you're getting seriously messed up by being this way. (Sacrifice for the greater good, etc, etc, etc.) Which is what happens to all those kids and especially Ender.
Three Days Grace Animal I Have Become--All about becoming a monster & trying futilely to escape the nightmare (the singer's/Ender's) life has become. The school's changing him into the perfect general and his constant trying to escape via the game with the dead end choices (the one with two glasses of poison, where he eventually burrows into the giant's eye I think <sorry, it's been a while and I can't find my copy to spot check>).
Nickelback Savin' Me--More of the above, but as an added note, each person that gets saved goes on to save someone else in the video, creating an endless chain of people. I remember discussing the concept of how everything was connected to everything else in the universe. The song also talks about being taught/shown how to find/see value in someone and being taught "wrong from right", issues that come up both with the bugs, with Ender and eventually with the whole "speaker of the dead" concept.
Switchfoot I Dare You to Move -- dealing with fallout after something horrible happens
Anonymous
I read it and every other book in the series :D
Considering how "alone" Ender was in his intelligence and his capabilities/purpose, the song "One (is the loneliest number)" could work.
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5DHquP1HWU
Lyrics: http://www.threedognight.com/l_one.html
Ender often pushed through his disadvantages (facing multiple opponents at once, being one of the youngest students, being a child in a situation of war). The song "Reach" by Gloria Estefan kinda defines that.
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMs83vY2d34
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gloria+estefan/reach_20060666.html
Here's a song called "Never Alone". It's religious, but it kinda applies to how Ender felt alone when he really had a team who loved him and believed in him.
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye_iqQWMoCg&feature=related
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Never-Alone-lyrics-BarlowGirl/3785791040CEFCC948256E9B000A2265
If i think of some other ones, I'll edit this.