Brief Summary Of Ender's Game By Orson Card

The book begins with Ender gets his monitor out and commander Graff tells him he needs to go to battle school because he was the smartest kid. In the shuttle going to battle school, he broke Bernard’s arm and got bullied by the bigger kids. Ender started to command his own army after standing up to the bullies and then graduated and moved to command school. He stays on earth for a while to get ready to travel to Eros and then he was isolated from everyone and then he got to fight in the war against the Buggers. They won and Ender’s team thought it was a game not

Ender was determined to find a new home for the buggers because he didn’t want anyone else to get hurt. For example, it says, “Your children are the monsters of our nightmares now. If I awoke you, we would only kill you again” (Card 320). Ender knew that reviving the buggers would only lead to another war because the humans would still not understand the buggers intentions. Additionally, Ender knew that the buggers had their own lives to live and wanted to convey this to the humans. He was able to prevent more bloodshed while also educating the humans on everything he knew about the buggers by writing a novel, on everything from their faults to their intentions, as the speaker of the dead. Specifically the novel says, “‘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.” (Card 321). Ender decided to spend the rest of his life dedicated to the buggers to enlighten people on the reality of the genocide they forced him to commit. This helped him explain to the human kind how wrong it was to commit genocide against the

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 think it’s about forgiveness because at the end of the book, Ender finds the last bugger queen and she forgives him and the humans for the bugger wars. After the bugger queen forgives Ender, he takes the last queen’s egg. In the book it says, “‘I’ll carry you,’ Ender said, ‘I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and 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 connects to everyday life because people have to forgive each other everyday, if there was no forgiveness in this world, there would be a lot more fighting, death, crime, hatred,

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

Unlike Valentine, Ender doesn’t stop to even contemplate the possibility of bestowing mercy on the insect. Instead, he focuses solely on the fact that a wasp stings without instigation and in order to prevent the risk of an “attack”, he eliminates the threat. Ender is becoming increasingly comfortable with killing in order to prevent harm on him self; his humane nature reaching the first steps of diminishment as his comfort increases.

One question in this novel is do means justify the ends? The main idea of this story was to fight the bugger war, and stop the buggers from ever taking over. So, was it acceptable for people to take the steps and control Ender to finally win the bugger war? The answer is that it was not acceptable to do this. Means do not justify the ends in the novel, “Ender’s Game.”

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

This almost does look like Ender is at fault here, but Ender was getting ganged up on and he had to stand his ground. Ender knew if e didn't really hurt the Stilson boy and make a point they would continue vigorously verbally and physically attacking him. Ender Wiggin, a standout throughout his schooling years and throughout his battle school, has to make tough choices whether they are good or bad, still, Ender is very much a representative of everything good. He is filled with sorrow for any destruction he causes and wishes no ill to any other creature, but still, he is forced to harm others and the buggers for the satisfaction of the adults. He is good because he is kind, but he is also good because he makes the sacrifices that he has to make.

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.

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.

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

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.