Fighting Through Challenges and Hard Times
People fight through challenges and hard times all the time in life. From having small things that hinder us to big things that take time to do and get through. People need to get through those challenges, and how do people do this? They fight through it, doing what they need to do to get the task done or surviving in some cases. This always happens in books also, the main character in a book is conflicted with a conflict. Which they have to resolve by the end of a book or book series. The specific themes in these three books. Ender's Game, Fahrenheit 451, and Persepolis. Their theme was about how a person needs to fight through the hard times or war or law. Despite people having hard times and challenges, books have challenges too in which three books have the same theme of fighting through a rough time.
Ender's Game
Ender's Game was about how a young kid named Andrew "Ender" Wiggins who went to a battle school to train to become a general of a future army against the enemy called "buggers". The story continues out as Ender fights through challenges and rough times. Go through challenges at Battle School and then Command School. And eventually getting lied to by adults saying that the simulations were actual battles that they fought against the buggers. Ender's main problem was fighting through the problems that he faced. He eventually did though. He fought against Bonzo, that kept picking on him. The downside of this fight was that he killed Bonzo. Which made Ender feel more guilty about himself, which made other challenges harder for him to fight. Ender kept fighting though the hard times though. Showing that the theme of this book is to fight through the rough times that come ahead.
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Fahrenheit 451
In Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a firefighter in the dystopian future world that bans books. And as a firefighter in this world, he has to burn the books when he finds them. Eventually he gets curious about books and starts to stash them inside his own house to read. Eventually his wife figures out and Montag has her keep a secret for a while until his wife's friends come over and he reads a book to them. Which causes one of them to flip out, resulting in Montag fighting not to go to prison, and eventually trying to not get killed. Because when the firefighter's were trying to arrest him, he had a flamethrower that the firefighters gave him so he can burn down his own house. He burned the his firemen captain to a crisp and escaped for his life. Fighting through the challenges for getting out of town to save his life. All through this book, Montag fought through challenges and hard times to try and stay alive. From getting one of his legs paralyzed from the Hound to a new hound chasing after him to kill him. Montag doesn't give up though, he escapes the Hound and the police to outside the city. This shows that he didn't give up to the challenges that could eventually end his life if he gave up. This books shows a good reason to never give up on what you want to do and fight through the hard times and challenges.
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Persepolis
Persepolis is a book about a young girl growing up in the Islamic Revolution. This is a prime example of fighting through the challenges and hard times. Especially because the society in this books is changing and the people of this society have to go through these changes. For example, many of the girls and women in this book are forced to wear the veil. And if women don't wear the veil, they are considered unpure and should burn in hell. But women in this book fight through these hard times. Even Marjane, the main character in this book, who had to fight through the hard times of this changing society. With the death of loved ones in her family from this changing society, it makes it hard to keep on trying to fight on in this society. But Marjane keeps on fighting on fighting through the challenges that she keeps getting faced with. And eventually, her parents send her to Austria, because they thought Marjane would be better off living their being happy. So Marjane had to face with the challenge of not having to see her parents in a while.
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Reflection
These pieces that are shown here show us a lot about our current society or world that we as people live in today. Ender's Game is a book that shows a future world fighting against a force that is bent on wiping out the human population. In our society, I don't think their is nothing that is bent on destroying us as people in outer space. But, Ender's Game did tell us to never give up and always fight through challenges. Fahrenheit 451 is about a world that bans books. In our world, we constantly banning books, but not burning them. These books that are banned are banned because they have sensitive topics in it. Not because are government bans all books for burning because they offend people. And then Persepolis relates to real life with extremists and religion. Many people today and Iraq and Iran are dealing with ISIS, which takes Islam to a new realm. And this is a horrible thing that is going on in the world. Marjane had to deal with the Islamic Revolution, with religion extremists that enforce the religion of Islam. These three books have a lot with our society today and our world. They show some of the same ideas that we are dealing with today.