Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card and was published on January 15, 1985. The story follows Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, a genius boy who is chosen to attend Battle School in hopes of being the savior of humanity against the alien buggers. Ender’s journey from an outcast into a commander seems to follow the steps of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. Joseph Campbell was a writer who discovered after studying stories, religions, and mythologies, noticed similar themes and structures and wrote The Hero With A Thousand Faces (later renamed the “hero’s journey”). The Hero’s Journey described the steps he observed when reading about heroic journeys. The hero’s journey is made up of several phases such as an unusual …show more content…
Add that up with being a third and Ender is already an outcast at age six. “It was not his fault that he was a Third. It was the government’s idea, they were the ones who authorized it- how else could a Third like Ender have got into school? And now the monitor was gone. The experiment entitled Andrew Wiggin hadn’t worked out at all. If they could, he was sure they would like to rescind the waivers that he had allowed to be born at all.” (Card 5). The second stage of a hero’s journey is the call to adventure. Something happens that calls the hero away from their everyday life and into their quest. For Ender, it was when Graff showed up at the Wiggin’s home in chapter three. The removal of Ender’s monitor turned out to be the I.F’s final test to see how Ender handled situations without the aid. Graff arrives at the Wiggin residence to deliver the news and invites Ender to attend Battle School to commence his training. It takes a bit to sway him but he ultimately agrees stating that he was in fact born for the sole purpose. He leaves holding Colonel Graff’s hand and Valentine crying for him to return to her. The two steps of crossing the threshold and the challenges and trials fuse together during the story. Ender crosses the threshold during the fourth chapter Launch, when he along with nineteen other boys begin their journey to battle school. Already he is faced with a challenge. The two unknown figures open up the fourth chapter discussing
Chapter Summary In this chapter Ender makes the decision to go to the Battle school. The principle of the school comes and visits Ender’s home. Graff tells Ender how the school is like and tells him they need soldiers to fight the buggers. Graff tells Ender his life would change and he will not see his family.
Ender has a lot to think about towards the end of the book. He had became a captain earlier then a lot of the other captains. Ender was a smart kid and his brother Peter was jealous of him because he got accepted to battle school. Ender also had a sister that was sweet and he loved her. Ender is kinda like both Peter and Valentine they kinda are the same in a way. Ender He killed a lot of people but he isn’t anything like peter. He also have a good heart but he’s also isn’t like valentine. He’s kinda mixed with both of them because he is violent but has a great heart.
In Ender's Game, author Orson Scott Card uses a foreshadowing technique to convey a sense of danger throughout the novel, which leads the readers to develop a feeling of apprehensiveness while reading. After getting his monitor mysteriously removed, Ender is sent back to class. When the bell rings, Ender is the
“Hey third, we’re talkin to you, Third, hey bugger lover, we’re talkin to you.” (Card. 6). In the beginning Stilson (a bully) comes up to Ender with a group of guys. They surround him and start to bully him. At first Ender takes it, then Stilson swings at him, and we see Ender break out of his shell. Ender not only beats him, but we find out he killed him. This is where we see Ender realize what he is capable of. After the fight, we see Ender go back to his quiet self. “Again a blow to the head. Go away Ender thought.I didn’t do anything to you.” (Card. 32). Another group of boys start
The IF and teachers graduated Ender on to Commander School. Before he actually goes to Commander School, he spends three months on Earth, during which he decides he doesn't want to continue going to school. Graff decides to use Valentine to manipulate him into going back to school. "We meant his leave to last only a few days. But you see he doesn't seem interested in going on with his education. Oh so I'm therapy again" (Card 233).
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.
Now we are at the climax of the story, where Ender and his commanders have to take a final test. It is a very hard test and many important people are watching. This battle either makes it, or breaks it. They take the test and barely win their battle against the buggers that they thought were fake. Later, they learn that the battle was actually real, and they won the battle against the
Graff says that Ender needs to be isolated because he needs to think that he can never count on someone else’s help and can only depend on himself. Graff says that Ender can have friends, but he can’t have any parents. Once the shuttle arrives to the Battle School, Ender and the other boys with him on the launch (called Launchies) find their bunks and Dap, their “mom”, introduces himself to them. At dinner, Ender met an older kid named Mick, but didn’t like the advice he gave him and that night, Ender cried himself to
He talks to himself and says, “Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier than he would ever have been otherwise" (Card 119). Enders recognizes that his intelligence deprives him of the many pleasures of childhood and replaces those pleasures with unconscionable pressures and expectations. He is superior in creativity, logic, sensitivity, intelligence, psychological understanding of others, morality, and hand-to-hand combat (Kessel 2). Ender always knew the answer to everything and knew his opponent's next move before they did it during a
Meanwhile, Peter has convinced Valentine that it is time for them to assert themselves. Peter has unlimited ambition, and he is intelligent enough to try to manipulate world events. Valentine agrees to work with him because she wants their impact to be a positive one. Disguised on the information networks they soon begin to exert an influence. By this time Ender is nine years old and a platoon leader in Phoenix Army under Petra's command. Everyone respects his brilliance and his practice sessions are attended by many, but he is depressed and is stuck in the mind game. Colonel Graff comes to visit Valentine and has her write Ender
At the beginning of the story Ender has a Monitor that record what he sees and goes onto his neck, but some people take it off, so Ender goes home and is met by a man named Graff who wants him to come to battle school to train Ender for the Bugger war. Ender decides to go, he has to ride a rocket ship there, he is set apart from the rest of the kids in the rocket ship launch. He gets to the school where shortly after he gets moved to an army, but soon after he kills his commander and gets his own army to command named Dragon army. He trains his army and wins all of his battles, till some people decide to take him to command school, but Ender doesn't want to go so he returns to Earth. He then leaves Earth and goes to command school where he trains, and commands some of his old buddies and kills all of the buggers, but feels terrible, so he goes to a colony and finds a bugger queen and becomes the speaker of the dead.
In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, it starts with ender in school and being made fun of. After he beats up a bully, he goes home to deal with his brother Peter who also bullies him because Ender is a better specimen than Peter was. But what no one expected was that a representative from the military came to invite Ender to Battle School up in space. Ender accepted and went to live up in Battle School for years to come. At first, Ender was hated for being such a talented student at the age of six but was soon respected after he was able to beat all the other armies with just a bunch of little kids. Ender became the best soldier at Battle School and was moved up to Command School where he would learn to command
In China, there is a one-child policy regulating the number of children you may have in order to keep the population stable. Also, in the Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, they possess a two-child policy regulating poverty. Ender Wiggin is the third child in his family only because they have special authorization. He was six years old when he was recruited by Major Graff to go to Battle School. Ender’s job is to defeat the buggers, but a few obstacles stand in his way. The book better portrays Ender's Journey through discovering himself than the movie.
The Story of Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card is very complex dealing with a multitude of issues in our society. Through the eyes of a brilliant child we get to feel the ups and downs of being different, a genius, war with good and evil, manipulation, and compassion. The basic
It is a tale defined by a sense of both tragic certainty and cold irony. For once it is not about a child's growth of adulthood and knowledge, when most are with a young protagonist. Instead it shows a message of how innocence can be destroyed and mislead by others. Ender is spirited and determined but his attitude towards others changes as he progresses through the Battle School. He finds peace and free spirit with his sister Valentine.