A Short Story : The Story Of The Ender : A Story?

Despite his insecurities and loneliness, Ender becomes a commander in the battle that successfully leads his team to victory in destroying the alien species.

We haven’t seen each since you were left at the age of 6. I know you hate me, hate my violence, and you have never thought that I would become the alliance commander in chief, the Hegemon. It was true, I had plans for you, and I took advantage of your appearance to reach my popularity peak. But, Ender, you have to admit, you know me likewise yourself, Ender, I’ve been watching you for a long time, I know you have been the hero who saved humanity, and I have seen your video about The Last War with Buggers more than once, you destroyed all of the hive queens, hence, you would understand that we have the same temperament fluids in our blood. Now, I’m 77 years old, I have been ruled the earth nearly 60 years, it is time to tell my story to people. Ender, since you can speak for the buggers, surely you can speak for me. No one can understand more about the meaning behind my decision except you.

At the beginning of the story, Ender hated Peter for bullying him and his sister Valentine. His hate for Peter by the end of the book, however, seems to have changed, “Back and forth across the ansible Ender and Peter spoke, with Peter pouring out the stories of his days and years, his crimes and his kindnesses. And when he died, Ender wrote a second volume, again signed by the Speaker of the Dead” (Card 323). Moreover, Ender also chose to forgive the Buggers. Even though they were enemies, Ender tried to make peace, “And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time” (Card 324). Ender worked to repay the Buggers since he had destroyed their entire species. He was able to forgive the buggers for attacking Earth and kept the Bugger’s civilization going, and was also able to forgive Peter for treating him and Valentine so

Ender understands that he is being offered a spot in Battle School, but does not know that it is the beginning of isolation for him. In the beginning, Graff had already planned to take Ender with him to Battle School and in order for that to succeed; Graff had to persuade Ender that he is making his family’s life harder. “They look at you and see you as a badge of pride, because they were able to circumvent the law and have a Third. But you’re also a badge of cowardice, because they dare not go further and practice the noncompliance they still feel is right. And you’re a badge of public shame, because at every step you interfere with their efforts at assimilation into normal complying society” (23). Ender’s isolation games begin with these words.

Ender can either run from the past or learn from it. Every choice Ender makes throughout his life has a negative impact on him because of fear and Colonel Graff. Now, Ender obtains a chance to make a decision on his own with no repercussions. Once Ender finds the buggers a new home he will be able to accept his past and face the future head

Ender’s rocky journey to becoming a great commander can be broken into three specific periods; separation from everything he was familiar with as a child, initiation into his new life to school in space, and the life he lives after the final battle.

Ender is a young boy that is very talented coming from a well known family. His mother, father, sister, and brother live on the planet considered earth, however, because the world is at stake he has been sent to space to train for war.“Battle School is where the best and brightest are trained to be military commanders through participation in intricate war games.” “I'm crazy," said Ender(Chapter 8). "But I think I'm OK(Chapter 8). Ender is not letting these fears and obstacles get in his way of achieving his goal as a commander and his understanding of what and why he was chosen to be in battle school so early. Based on the quote as they train him in the different direction from the way he used to live and the way they live the grown ups soon come to the understanding that he is intelligent and can be a great help for the battle against the buggers. As they continue to train through different section they become more and more interested into his thoughts tracking his every movement and soon inform him he will play a big part in their mission to save the

The beginning of training, Graff isolated Ender to get the other kids to dislike him. He shows that Ender is better than them and they start to hate him. He gradually manipulates Ender to take the form of the commander they want. This is reprehensible, the military can’t manipulate people and it is a violation of human rights.

After a few years, Ender gains control of the Phoenix Army. his army excels and he holds daily practice sessions for the whole school. Even though things are better, he still feels depressed. Back on earth they make Valentine write a letter to cheer him up. It works and he stays in the game.

In the bolded font in the beginning of the chapter, Graff is speaking to a person who supposedly runs the International Fleet. They discuss Ender playing the “mind game” and how he keeps coming back to the “giant’s drink”. When the boys are all in the battleroom, Ender decides to mess around with the null gravity, teaching himself how it works and what he can do with it. Bernard’s friend, Alai, joins in as well. They both begin to play with their guns, freezing everyone else.

Ender takes many journeys throughout the book, his literal, and most obvious, being his trip to the battle school. In the battle school, he learns many valuable lessons such as, when to stand your ground. He applied this when he fought his bully in the bathroom and killed him by accident. During his journey, he played a game that simulated situations based on the information gathered on the player. Ender’s mental health begins

Chapter Four of Ender’s Game starts off with a conversation between two unnamed characters talking about Ender. After much argument they both agree, so he can become more intelligent and creative. The storyline then proceeds to Ender going on the space shuttle with the other boys. While in space Ender laughs at Graff who walking against a “wall” which makes Graff call on Ender. Graff points out how Ender “is the only smart one in the bunch” causing Ender not to a great start.

He is isolated by Graff frequently because he does not want Ender to become weak, and rely on someone since he is the only one that is capable of saving the world from the buggers due to his exceptional battle tactics and quick thinking during battles. In the story, when Ender exits the shuttle, someone asks, “‘was it a good flight, Ender?’... ‘I thought you were my friend….’ ‘Whatever gave you that idea, Ender?’” (34) This is because Graff, the one who invited Ender to enter the Battle School, is purposely trying to isolate him when he was in the shuttle with the other children. The isolation that Graff causes Ender to have, influences everyone in the shuttle to laugh and tease at him. Ender thinks that he and Graff would be friends since Graff always speaks nicely to Ender, and never lies. This quotation also shows that Ender does not truly have friends, although he is eager to have someone to rely on and share his feelings with. Despite Ender is only a child, he has to experience all these hardships. Another example that shows that Ender is being isolated is when Carn Carby, the leader of the Rabbit army comes and greets him after seeing how he is being isolated by all the other commanders and says, “ ‘Usually new commanders are cheered when they first join the mess. But then, usually a new commander has had a few defeats under his belt before he makes it in here.’” (184) This quote shows how Ender is

The institutional space that Ender trains under affects his way of living and he doesn’t realize it. From the moment he was old enough to prepare for battle, his life goal has been to prepare for the future alien invasion. He had not been taught to live life,but to protect it. His life goal is the goal of the

He ought to explore. He ought to climb down from the Giant's face and see what he had finally achieved. Instead he signed off, put his desk in his locker, stripped off his clothes and pulled his blanked over him. He hadn't meant to kill the Giant." (Card, 65.) This shows he’s useful because he was the only one who got past that stage, but a little strange that he didn’t want to explore after he had been the only one who defeated the Giant. " 'Anderson, think what we're going to do to him.' ... 'We're going to make him the best military commander in history.' 'And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.' " (Card, 36) This quote shows how Ender is useful not only to the people or the generals, but the the world. They’re plan is to use