The Giraffe Blog

       I read the book Ender’s Game for the blogpost, and I really enjoyed it. This book has a lot of writing that shows the change of the main character. This book was really fun to read and was great because of how it showed character change in the novel. Not only did the book show how Ender, the main character, change because of his surroundings, it also talks about how the higher-ups were able to manipulate Ender into becoming what he is. In the book, the world was just attacked by aliens called buggers, and a man named Mazer Rackham fought them off. Ever since, the world has been preparing to fight against the buggers, taking children to space to train them to learn how to fight at a very young age. Ender is chosen because his brother, Peter, was an extremely smart and talented person, but he was too violent and got sent back to earth. The people in charge looked for a new person and found Ender, Peter’s brother. After Ender joins the military program, the ...

             A Tyranny of Petticoats is a collection of 15 short historical fiction stories about girls in different time periods, from different places, in different scenarios. Each was written by a different author, and they were edited by Jessica Spotwood. The subjects of the stories range from a woman pretending to be a male pirate to a girl living in the civil war to a story about the Three Fates incarnated as young girls in Texas. Every single chapter was fun to read, but my two favorites were Pearls and The Legendary Garrett Girls. Pearls is about a woman who runs away from her fiance to teach at a school. One of my favorite lines from the book comes from this story; “ ‘You’d never shoot me, Helen,’ Richard says, smiling, his fangs showing. ‘No woman of mine would shoot me.’ So I shot him.”      Historical fiction has never been one of my go to genres, so this book was a little bit of a change for me. It was fast paced, becaus...