Brief Summary Of Ender's Game By Orson Card

Since more ships were arriving from Earth soon, Ender sets out to find more land for the colonists to settle in. In searching for more land, Ender comes across an area that resembles the images in the computer game he played at Battle School. He believes that the buggers created this place to leave him a message. When he went to the castle and looked behind the mirror, he found the chrysalis of the next bugger queen. The former queen communicates with him and shows him images of the bugger war from her point of view and tells him what he needs to do in order to start a new bugger civilization. Ender writes a book about the history of the buggers and titles it Speaker for the Dead, which becomes somewhat of a religion for some people on Earth and for most living in the bugger worlds. Ender titles the story of Peter with the same title as the one of the buggers and both books become the foundation of a new religion. At the end of the book, Ender asks Valentine to travel to different worlds with him so he can start a new bugger colony, and his search lasts for numerous

Chapter 1: Two voices describe how Ender is going to be the one to save the planet from the Buggers. Ender gets his monitor removed and is still an outcast. When Ender returns to school one of the class bullies, Stilson, starts picking on Ender. Ender starts a fight with Stilson and gets him on the ground and continues beating him.

Petra Arkanian and Dink Meeker are always Ender's friends, but at times he is uncertain of where they stand. But by far the most striking juxtaposition occurs with the buggers.

He specifically states before commencing his attack on the Bugger’s home planet, “Forget it Mazer, I don’t care if I pass your test, I don’t care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won’t let you beat me unfairly- I’ll beat you unfairly first”. (Card 293) Ender was motivated to beat the Command School, not the Buggers. In the past, the school had done countless abhorrent actions, feeding the fire of reprisal deep within Ender.

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone” (Hans F. Hansen). The book Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, describes the journey Ender took to stand alone and become a leader. At the age of six, Ender qualified to go to battle school, and he made the decision to go. This choice affected the rest of his life. Battle school is a school in space where children have education, but also learned to fight buggers. They played games which they fought each other in anti-gravity battle room. Ender exceeded everyone else and one day the world was going to depend on him. Ender is a marvelous leader because of his unbelievable intelligence, his compassion to see others succeed, and his ruthlessness to protect.

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

And because of Ender’s compassion, he is able to defeat the buggers. He understands them and knows how they feel, so that when he kills them, he feels terrible and wishes that he wasn’t manipulated and that he did not just kill an entire race. Ender also shows his compassionate side when he decides that he will help the buggers. When Ender finds the last pupa egg and telecommunicates with the queen bugger, he replies, “I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come away in safety” (Card 321). He realizes that the buggers did not know that humans were a thinking race during the First Invasion, which was when the buggers attacked the humans. And when they realized their mistake, they hoped that the humans would forgive them. But when the humans do not forgive them and attack during the Third Invasion, which is led by Ender, the buggers know that their race is going to die. And because the buggers know that Ender would listen to them and understand them, they are confident in his willingness to help. So when the queen bugger asks Ender to save their race, he agrees to help find a home for

Mazer Rackham manipulates Ender by saying beating the Buggers is his final test instead of saying this is the fight against the Buggers. Mazer says,’’ Congratulations, you beat them, and it’s all over” (296). This is manipulation because Mazer used Ender to defeat the Buggers

The buggers from Orson Scott Cards Enders game and subsequent novels, at first appear to be bug eyed monsters, a science fiction cliché. However as the story develops it becomes apparent that the buggers are much more than just a cliché, they develop as a sentient species, they undergo a transformation from varelse, “the true alien” (speaker 34) into raman “the stranger that we recognise as human but of another species”. (34) As this transformation occurs Ender learns a great deal from the buggers, in this manner card illustrates that there is much one can learn from the transformation of varelse to raman.

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.

"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." Ender gets mad at himself for killing the whole bugger population,because of that Ender gets mad at the commanding officer that put him in charge of the “simulation” .If the author never added this there would be no after story and the book would just end where he killed the whole population and then it wouldn’t tell what happens after the battle. There would also be none of the other books there would only be Ender’s

The story has many settings. The first of which takes place sometime in the future somewhere on Earth where there is a constant threat of a bugger invasion and having a third child is considered bad which made life a lot harder for Ender which was one of many reasons why he left to Battle School. The setting then moves to the spaceship which Battle School is on which doesn’t really need to be on a spaceship unless Orson Scott Card wanted the spaceship to help with the feeling of isolation. As the story progresses the setting moves to the planet Eros which is where he will be fighting the Buggers thinking he is just in a simulation but he is really fighting the Buggers.

The Resolution of the plot indicates that authors purpose because no matter the ending of the book whether is was happy, sad, funny, the resolution of the novels plot will tell you what the author intended. The human rights issue that took place was freedom, the author’s resolution was ender killed off all the Buggars besides one egg and a dying queen. The queen tells Ender they never wanted another war they were only preparing to protect themselves and how they tried to send him a message. This was a stab right in the heart of Ender he thought he was fighting for his freedom but really he was fighting to take away the Buggars freedom. This resolution generated a very sad and forgiving reaction for the reader.

“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.

The book starts out with a young Ender Wiggin a Genius who at mere age of 6 is thought to be a better shot at saving the world from “the Buggers” (aliens that look like large ants) then any adult. He lives in a post war society where the only thing keeping the world together is a fear of alien attacks.