Ender's shadow-Orson Scott Card February 1 (28)
Today I started Ender shadow. The book starts by introducing several children including Bean, the main character in the book. The children are orphans and live on the street. They are hungry and fight for food. They organize themselves in group with a leader and a protector. The leaders have to be very mean and violent. They fight for the little food they can find. The fights are very violent and one kid name Achilles even kills a girl name Poke. Bean is very small and that is the reason they kids named him bean. He is also very smart. That’s why Sister Carlotta notices him in a soup kitchen. She decides to test him to see how smart he is. But he cannot read or write. So she teaches him and in the process she realizes that he’s very intelligent. Eventually she asked General Hyrum Graff to test him for Battle school. Graff finally agrees to test Bean and he scores perfect in the entire test except the physical test. So he is qualified to attend battle school in space.
I think it is very hard for somebody so small to survive on the streets and also to be so smart. It’s also strange to think of kids living on the street all the time. Bean found a way to survive by observing people on the street, he developed social intelligence. Later Sister Carlotta taught him reading, writing, math and other academics. Bean goes to battle school and he is very different than the other kids. But he has always been alone. He is always on the defense observing other people to be able to survive.
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