Title: Ender’s Game
Author: Orson Scott Card, no I haven’t read anything else from this author
Type of Book: Science Fiction
Main Characters: Ender Wiggin, Mazer Rackham, Hyrum Graff (Colonel Graff), Major
Anderson, Petra Arkanian, Bonzo Madrid, Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Dink Meeker, Bean,
Sergeant Dap, Alai, Bernard, Stilson, Shen, Fly Molo, Han Tzu
Ender Wiggin: The most important character Andrew Ender Wiggin was the youngest
of the siblings of Peter and Valentine. Ender was chosen by Colonel Graff, joining the
International Fleet to save the world from another attack against the buggers. Colonel
Graff and others in battle school, guide Ender to the end to being head and leader in the
Battle with the Buggers, which came
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Most loved/favored: Valentine Wiggin was Ender’s older sister and only one who truly
loved him, protecting him from their misanthrope brother. Later in the story Valentine
wrote a letter to Ender to get “a handle on things” when he mentally broke down, filled
with exhaustion. After the hardships they were reunited and traveled colonizing the
bugger world, and seeking new land for the buggers to live.
Negative/bad character: Peter Wiggin was Ender’s older and corrupt brother. Peter was
well gifted with intelligence, but used it for his own cruel ways like manipulation. This
played more of a part after Ender left, and he decided to take part in world occurrences.
Peter convinced Valentine to play a roll, and through networks and intelligence, they
gained power. Towards the end, when Ender came up with a victory, Peter took part as
the world leader (Ender and Valentine never returned to Earth).
Main Themes/Ideas: The main theme of the story is, don’t put your full trust in
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This theme teaches the reader a point that takes part through
life. The book teaches, you can’t trust everyone, multiple intelligent minds working together is
better than one, the acceptance of common good is better for others than the greed of own
individual feelings, the power of isolation can affect individual strengths, and life is hard to
understand.
My Evaluation: Ender’s Game worked well with me and my thinking process, so I had no
issues understanding what went on throughout the story. Compared to other books in the same
genre, I think the author did great making the story understandable and comparable to
humankind and life struggles. Even though the story took place in space, the struggles Ender
went through is just another way of teaching the readers life is hard to understand and pushing
for somebody you love, a great outcome may come out of it. (Something good will always come
out of something bad). The book appealed to me in an emotional way, mostly because as a teen I
am going through harsh struggles in life and his struggles helped me understand everyone has
their own emotional battles (all at different levels).
Favorite quote: “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It Merely asks us to be brilliant on
Ender is most definitely not like Peter. Because of a few reasons like they work for different command stations and Ender is way nicer than Peter.
Ender's game essay BIn the novel “Ender's Game” by Orson Scott Card, Ender “the third” is supposed to be the balance between two extreme personalities, one being very altruistic,compassionate attributed to his sister Valentine,and the other being very cruel and heartless attributed to his brother Peter. By the end of the novel Ender's personality is more like Valentine. This is shown by the empathy he always shows towards others,and how he constantly reasses his character to make sure he doesn’t take on the attributes of Peter. Ender reflects on his character in chapter 1 after fighting with Stilson and it hurts him to realize he did something Peter would have done. An example of this is in the first chapter "I am just like Peter.
In the beginning of Ender’s game, we are introduced to Ender Wiggin. Ender Wiggin was a shy kid who was unaware of all of the possibilities he had. He starts to become a stronger more mature boy and soon enough realizes all the power he posses. He has an older brother named Peter, and an older sister named Valentine. He at first is this little, weak kid, and in five years goes from that to a mature leader of an army. We see him progress to the top of what he becomes, but it does not happen easily. He has to make many hard decisions that could go any which way.
At the beginning, Ender relied heavily on his sister Valentine, but by the end of the novel Ender exhibited independence. One way that he shows independence is when Ender’s toon leader Bonzo Madrid commands him to not participate actively in the game. However, Ender disobeys him, “Ender aimed carefully with a straight arm, as Petra had taught him. Before anyone knew what was happening, he froze three of
Ender has endured a great deal of isolation to be shaped into an elite soldier but it has unfortunately overwhelmed him with despair and loneliness. Struggling
Ender Wiggin was a timid boy who wanted to have his brother and parents to love him. Prior to joining the Battle School, Ender did not have the belligerence that he would soon possess. He did not want to be like Peter, so
Do you think it was a good idea for the military to recruit Ender and leave Peter and Val behind? Or could the military have manipulated any of these kids (or any others outside of the family) into becoming the great military leader?
When Ender finds out that he killed a whole race he is angry and says “’I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer!”’(297).Throughout his journey Ender thinks that he is a replica of Peter. This is one of the many instances where Ender feels his whole persona is being manipulated into a copy of Peter by leaders at Battle School. Once Ender recognizes that most of his choices have been influenced by commanders such as Colonel Graff he decides to make a decision of his own by finding the buggers a new home.
Ender goes through many hard things, including bullying, being overworked, sleep-deprived, and trying to not be like his brother Peter. While Ender is at school in space, Peter and Valentine try to gain trust of the people on Earth. Ender gets promoted to be the commander of the entire fleet. And with the help of his friends, and
He takes the command of Dragon army. Commanding Dragon army, Ender has to have a strong leadership in commanding the outcasts of battle school. His army started off terrible, but with training and the correct leadership they won many battles. Ender also gets in a fight with Bonzo, and ends up killing him. They didn’t tell him about the fact that he killed Bonzo, either.
Ender believes that he is a brutal person and sees his actions as nothing but pure destruction. He is ashamed of his inability to control his actions and believes that deep down he wants to cause pain of that immensity; his belief convinces himself that there is no hope for him. Above all, the overwhelming guilt Ender experiences causes him to struggle with believing that he possesses his
Ender’s Game is centered around a boy named Ender, who gets chosen to go to a military training center by the government, which is called Battleschool. As he grows his mind and skills, as well as his confidence, he gains friends and enemies along the way. In this novel, Ender shows the reader, and myself, that central message is that everything can be treated as a game, but, in the future, you will have to learn to acknowledge the world around you and realize that accidents and mistakes are real. You can’t just start over, you have to live with your faults, no matter how bad they are.
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
The officers took note that Ender seemed happier after the letter. Graff had prepared rigged battles for Ender, so see how he would deal with them. Ender was taken to his new quarters as a commander. He got an army named “Dragon Army”, which was said to lose 2/3 of their battles. After meeting up with his troops and organizing everyone into their bunks, they all headed to the battle room. He taught them how to fight in a different style, where they used their knees as shields and orientate themselves so the door would be downwards. During the session, Ender picked on a small kid named Bean. Ender gave the kid a similar treatment to how Graff treated him. Bean demanded a toon, and Ender gave him his standards and expectations on how to be