Ender's Game
Mythology
Perseus & Theseus
Heracles & Atalanta
Hero types
100
He is the author of Ender's Game.
Who is Orson Scott Card?
100
King of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
He found his father's sandals under a large rock.
Who is Theseus?
100
This hero killed the Calydonian Boar.
Who is Atalanta?
100
These are three types of hero.
What is tragic, mythic, epic, anti, romantic? (any three)
200
He is Ender's best friend (after Valentine).
Who is Alai?
200
Overweening pride.
What is hubris?
200
She was tied to a rock and left for a sea monster to eat.
Who is Andromeda?
200
One of Herakles's labors was to get her belt.
Who is Hippolyta (queen of the Amazons)?
200
This is the main characteristic of a tragic hero.
What is everything goes wrong, despite good intentions?
300
This is the fake persona Peter created on the nets.
Who is Locke?
300
Stories once believed to be true, but now remembered as fiction created to explain the natural world and encourage right behavior.
What is mythology?
300
She helped Theseus find his way through the Labyrinth.
Who is Ariadne?
300
This is the reason Herakles had to perform his labors.
What is the fact that he killed his own family?
300
This is what makes an anti-hero an anti-hero.
What is that the anti-hero has multiple characteristics that defy what a reader would normally find heroic?
400
He is the man in charge of the battleschool.
Who is Colonel Graff?
400
She killed her own sons.
Who is Medea?
400
He had a pet turtle.
Who is Sciron?
400
Atalanta swears to this goddess that she will remain a maiden.
Who is Artemis?
400
This is the type of hero the "hero's journey" describes.
What is mythic?
500
He was the cadet Ender treated the worst (because he reminded Ender of himself).
Who is Bean?
500
This is another term for the hero's journey.
What is the monomyth?
500
She is Perseus's mother.
Who is Danae?
500
Atalanta's home country.
What is Arcadia?
500
Ender is this type of hero.
What is __________? (justify)
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