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    This document summarizes key ideas and themes from four novels assigned for a summer reading assignment: 1) Ender's Game shows isolation can both help and hinder the protagonist Ender, as isolation allows him to succeed but prevents him from having lasting social connections. 2) Ender's Game also hints that knowledge equals power, exemplified through Ender's intelligence allowing him to save the world. 3) Fahrenheit 451 argues that knowledge is power, and the government burns books to prevent people from gaining the wisdom to rebel. 4) The Bluest Eye uses blue eyes as a symbol of beauty and affection that the protagonist Pecola desperately wants but lacks.

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    This document summarizes key ideas and themes from four novels assigned for a summer reading assignment: 1) Ender's Game shows isolation can both help and hinder the protagonist Ender, as isolation allows him to succeed but prevents him from having lasting social connections. 2) Ender's Game also hints that knowledge equals power, exemplified through Ender's intelligence allowing him to save the world. 3) Fahrenheit 451 argues that knowledge is power, and the government burns books to prevent people from gaining the wisdom to rebel. 4) The Bluest Eye uses blue eyes as a symbol of beauty and affection that the protagonist Pecola desperately wants but lacks.

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    This document summarizes key ideas and themes from four novels assigned for a summer reading assignment: 1) Ender's Game shows isolation can both help and hinder the protagonist Ender, as isolation allows him to succeed but prevents him from having lasting social connections. 2) Ender's Game also hints that knowledge equals power, exemplified through Ender's intelligence allowing him to save the world. 3) Fahrenheit 451 argues that knowledge is power, and the government burns books to prevent people from gaining the wisdom to rebel. 4) The Bluest Eye uses blue eyes as a symbol of beauty and affection that the protagonist Pecola desperately wants but lacks.

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    SerenaHorvath

    JonathanKeefer
    LeifNoren
    KaylaPearson
    NicoletteStarke
    OConnor
    HonorsEnglish9
    19August2015

    SummerReadingAssignmentBigIdeas

    EndersGame
    byOrsonScottCardshowsthethemeofisolationthroughthe
    protagonist,Ender.EnderisplacedinisolationbecauseofColonelGraff,thepresident
    ofbattleschool.Isolationisdisplayedasbothgoodandbadinthenovel.Isolationis
    displayedasgoodinthenovelbecauseEndersucceedsinsvaingtheworld,and
    isolationisconsideredbadinthenovelbecauseEnderisunabletohaveasociallife
    thatlasts.WithEnder,wehavetostrikeadelicatebalance.Isolatehimenoughthathe
    remainscreativeotherwisehelladoptthesystemhereandwelllosehim.Atthesame
    time,weneedtomakesurehekeepsastrongabilitytolead,(Card58).

    Inthenovel,
    EndersGame,
    byOrsonScottCard,theauthorhintsthat
    throughoutallformsoflife,knowledgeequalspower.Forexample,themaincharacter
    inthenovel,Enderisinsanelyintelligentwhichallowshimtoperformatahigherlevel
    thanallothers,eventuallyleadingtohimsavingtheworld.Everysingleoneofour
    shipscontainsanintelligenthumanbeingwhosthinkingonhisown.Everyoneofusis
    capableofcomingupwithabrilliantsolutiontoaproblem.(Card313).

    In
    Fahrenheit

    451
    byRayBradburythemainideaofthenovelisknowledgeis
    power.Thepointofburningallbooksistotakeawaytheknowledgefromthepeopleso
    theydonothavethewisdomtoovercomethegovernmentinapotentialrebellion.The
    peoplethatMontagmeetsupwithafterrunningawayfromhisdestrictarethecarrierof
    thisknowledge,oneofthemsaidForifwearedestroyed,theknowledgeisdead,
    perhapsforgood.(Bradbury124).

    TheBluestEye
    byToniMorrison:In
    TheBluestEye
    amajorideawasthe
    symbolismforblueeyes.Blueeyesrepresentedbeautyandaffection,somethingthat
    theprotagonist,PecolaBreedlove,hadalwayswantedbutneverreceived.She
    believedthatifshecouldbecomebeautifulshewouldfinallygainthem.

    IthadoccurredtoPecolasometimeagothatifhereyes,thoseeyesthatheldthe
    pictures,andknewthesightsifthoseeyesofhersweredifferent,thatistosay,
    beautiful,sheherselfwouldbedifferent.
    (Morrisonpg.46).

    ThatswhatImdoingtoyou,Bean.Imhurtingyoutomakeyouabettersoldier
    ineveryway.(Card205)ThisquoterepresentsanimportantthemeinEndersGameby
    OrsonScottCard,peopleneedtosuffertobecomebetter.NotonlydoesEndermake
    BeansuffertomakehimbetterbutGeneralGraffdidputEnderthroughthesame
    process.Enderwasgivennohelpandhadalltheoddsstackedagainsthimsothathe
    couldreachhismaximumpotential.

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