Analysis of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Essay

     The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Schott Card. It is about a young boy who is sent to battle school. He meets friends and makes adversaries. In battle school, out in space, Ender, the young boy is a genius and is taught many tactics to destroy their prime enemy the buggers. He excels in school and battles his way into command school before the required age. There he is told he is battling buggers in simulations or is he? Throughout the novel, Ender is manipulated, bullied, and isolated, which creates many themes and messages. In this novel Ender’s Game the main theme is life is a game. Three characters that best prove this are Ender, Peter, and Bonzo.

A beekeeper is a person who keeps and raises honey bees to harvest the honey for product to sell. Traditionally, beekeepers tend to be men for the consequences that come with the practice such as consist stings and the messy job of collecting and purifying the honey. But, in the novel, August is portrayed as the best beekeeper around. “Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands” (80). She takes on the career of a man and becomes distinguished from the rest because of her excellence in her career. The Boatwright’s believed that “women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting” (143). August not only practices the art of beekeeping, she also is the head preacher, a minister of sorts, in the Daughters of Mary church that she started. An organization that helps each other, has fun together, worship together, and stand powerful to any force that tries to deter their beliefs. They bring a sense of empowerment to Lily as she grows older. Lily, on the other hand, is taught to be the victim by her father. She has no real role models to encourage her. Her teacher tries to

This whole war could have been avoided if the humans had made a real effort to communicate. “As if in answer, he saw the first of all his battles with the bugger fleets. He had seen it before on the simulator; now he saw it as the hive-queen saw it, through many different eyes. The buggers formed their globe of ships, and then the terrible fighters came out of the darkness and the Little Doctor destroyed them in a blaze of light.” This quote proves the buggers were innocent and made a mistake thinking we were non intelligent beings. This means that every bugger he killed was an innocent one and that is a huge regret to bear. This time ender does suffer consequences for killing the buggers. "I'll carry you," said Ender, "I'll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time they can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me." This quote proves that ender has a promise to fulfill and he owes the buggers his future because he took away theirs. He suffers huge emotional pain because of killing millions of innocent lives.There flashed through his mind a dozen images of human beings being killed by buggers, but with the image came a grief so powerful he could not bear it, and he wept their tears for them.” This quote proves that there is a lot

Everyone has a secret life that they keep hidden from the rest of the world. Lies are told on a daily basis in order to keep these lives stashed in the dark. In The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, the bees are the ones that have the most secret life of all. They each have their own specific role to play deep within the hive. It's obvious that the author had meant for some of her characters to portray the roles that these buzzing insects have to dutifully fulfill every duty. Lily and Zach are the field bees, August is a nurse bee, and the Lady of Chains is the Queen bee.

Staying out of conformity by being a unique person, even if it means someone won’t like that person lets that person be an original person. When Ender, the main character from Ender’s Game, tries to be an average kid, he never lives up to his full potential. Valentine’s original voice is more powerful then sounding like someone else. When Ender realizes that Peter, his older brother, won’t accept him even if his is average, he strives to be himself.

Did you ever wish you were considered the most important person in the world? In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender, a six year old boy, who is chosen to save the world. Ender has to overcome many obstacles to become this great leader. The obstacles include being small, weak, and a third. Ender eventually overcomes these obstacles, however as a result Ender becomes a ruthless killer. Ender’s computer game shows how he is unknowingly interacting with the buggers, while the novel itself “Ender's Game” symbolizes how Ender decides who lives and who dies.

The only enemy that Ender truly fears, the buggers in the end prove to be friendly. The earth's greatest enemy, the alien race it was at war with, turns out not to have been intentionally hostile. The author constantly proves that friends and enemies are not

Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict will help him be a better leader and win games. Finally, his experience with Shen and Bernard teaches Ender that having humor will easily allow him to make friends. Overall, Ender’s experience in Battle School teaches him many things about

I don’t have murder in my heart” (Card, 84). Because Ender is afraid of becoming like his brother, he struggles with what he is and the things he did since he left home. Man vs. Society: “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.” (Card, 219) Valentine tells Ender that the government can control everyone. Families are not allowed to have more than two children unless the government gave them permission. The government allowed Ender, a third child, to be born in order to put an end to the bugger invasion. Man vs. Technology: The Battle School invented a computer mind game that challenges the children’s mind. Ender tries multiple times to beat the game, but the game always presents new obstacles. Man vs. Supernatural: “It’s the buggers themselves. I don’t know anything about them, and yet someday I’m supposed to fight them.” (Card, 167) The buggers are a race of aliens who invade Earth. They are a mysterious species that seem to possess one mind altogether. Several decades before Ender was born, the buggers were defeated, but they are invading again. The buggers’ Third Invasion is the reason Ender is taken to Battle School.

Bean and Ender have many similarities that set them apart from their peers in times of peril. Their intelligence made them the most promising weapon in the war against the buggers, rating highest among the smartest children in the world. This is surprising on account of the dissimilarities of their lifestyles before they went to battle school. However, before and during battle school Bean and Ender had to cope with being small. Ender and Bean were both prodigies in their time, but ironically they had completely different personalities. The similarities Bean and Ender shared took them to the top, yet their differences gave them the skills that helped them defeat the buggers and survive as long as humanity needed them.

“You won’t fail, Ender. Not this early in the course. You’ve had some tight ones, but you’ve always won. You don’t know what your limits are yet, but if you’ve reached them already you’re a good deal feebler than I thought.” (Card 286). Ender’s Game is a dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card that follows the training and thoughts of the protagonist, Ender, ultimately ending with the destruction of an alien race, the buggers. Ender’s militaristic and desperate society forces him to unwillingly commit genocide to an extent where Ender’s withering and empathetic mind begins to question the consequences of his actions.

This novel is about a brilliant military strategist, Ender Wiggin, whose story takes place in the future where there is a constant threat of an invasion from aliens who have been given the slanderous nickname, Bugger. Ender’s childhood is not an easy one considering he gets teased at school for being a “third” only to come home to an abusive brother who is always harassing Ender and his sister Valentine and he has the weight of the world on his shoulders because they believe that he is the last hope for mankind to fight off the Buggers. After many years of monitoring Ender the International Fleet decides they want to recruit Ender into Battle

Swarms of bees are “docile and don’t have a home to protect,” Maness told students. Part of his job is to gather the bees and relocate them to a hive.

The hive and the occupants were subject to a limited perspective. Only the pollen jockeys got to go outside, and even their behavior was dictated and directed by the

All three caste members go through four stages of development; egg, larva, pupa and adult. The queen lays eggs in worker and drone cells; fertilized eggs in can develop into workers or queens and unfertilized eggs develop into drones. While in the larva stage a honeybee is fed royal jelly, after third day the larva is fed beebread a mixture of honey and pollen. Nine days after hatching the larva is fully grown and stops feeding, this is when a cocoon is spun around the larva. During this time the adult body structures are formed. Once it has transformed into an adult, it is ready to emerge. A queen can live up to 5 years sometimes longer and only mates once in her lifetime. She is created at the decision of worker bees by feeding the larva only royal honey. On the sixteenth day from the time the egg was laid the new virgin queen will tear back the cap from her cell and emerge with her tongue stuck out begging for food. Soon after she has been fed by workers she will crawl out of the cell to dry. When the virgin queen has completely dried and gathered her strength she will make a shrill noise and wait for a response from other potential queens who hasn’t emerged from their cells. Once the virgin queen has received response from the others she will then seek them out, tear back the cap from their cell and eliminate