Commentary On Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

     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.

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.

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.

One reason why this is true is because Peter and Ender are working with two different commanders. Peter is commanding with. And Ender is commanding with Graff and soon became a commander himself. And then Ender has always been nicer than Peter especially to his sister Valentine. Ender views himself as an independent commander and doesn’t need any help from anyone else.

Ender’s passion for killing someone when he’s angered and his ruthlessness are inherited from Peter. Angered by Stilson’s continuous bullying and torturing that Ender’s not able to control himself, “So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs” (7). Provoked, Ender can not control his anger towards Stilson, and treats him just like Peter treats him. While hitting Stilson he doesn’t think about stopping, Peter is just as cruel to Ender when hitting him that he forgets to stop and almost kills him. Physically hurting others, Ender becomes like Peter and

THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa.

At home Ender's surroundings include his parents, his brother; Peter, and his sister; Valentine. Peter is obnoxious, rude, and an extremely violent character. His jealousy of Ender's superior intelligence often makes him bully Ender physically as well as psychologically torturing him ( telling him he is a third). Yet at the end of the day Peter just wants to be a leader and he

Sopheya Tarbell Nov. 9, 2017 Per. 4 Ender's Game Ender and Peter, although they are brothers, are they the same? Does Ender thinks he’s like him? Since before and after Ender left for battle school, we got to see what Ender and his siblings were like.

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.

In the early pages of Ender's Game, Peter was on top of Ender, while playing a game of Buggers and Astronauts. Peter loses his cool nearly killing Ender. “Ender could not speak; the breath was being forced from his lungs. Peter might mean it.” (12) Peters hatred for Ender goes out of control as Peter nearly suffocates his own brother. In

Would you be able to command a whole fleet when you were 12 years old? When Ender was 6 years old he was taken by the International Fleet to help in their fight with the buggers, an alien race that had attacked Earth many years before. Little does he realize how much weight is being put on his shoulders and how high expectations are for him to persevere against the buggers. He is tricked, isolated, and attacked, but they claim he needs this in order to win. In the end he ends up defeating the buggers and killing their whole species, while thinking it was still a game. He then spends the rest of his life searching for a home for the buggers as well as helping the humans adapt to the new colonies. The book Ender’s game was much better than story

Throughout the novel, Peter expresses himself as vile, cruel, and antagonistic; but, Peter has only shown this behavior because of his need to constantly feel in control. In the early chapters, Peter threatens and terrorizes his younger siblings. Peter explains that he was empowered by these actions because of his need for control. Peter’s disclosure of his talent shows why Ender fears becoming like Peter. Peter quickly identifies a person’s weaknesses and frailty and uses it to his advantage. Ender has used similar tactics in the past, but Ender used it as an act of self-defense. Although Peter proved himself as belligerent in the past, he has a fond and affection

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

Months later, the siblings are allowed to write newsnet columns. A year later, Ender is promoted in Rat Rmy. Graff goes down to Earth to see Valentine and discuss Ender’s problems. He explains Peter’s face in the mind games. Valentine knows that Peter and Ender are not alike in any way and is shocked when Graff argues that they are more alike than she can see. Graff tells Valentine to write Ender an encouraging letter. She does and sadly regrets later, knowing she had sold her brother. Ender gets the letter knowing that Valentine was forced to write it. He is sad that Valentine is on his enemy’s side. Ender later plays the mind

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.