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The book novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a book of perseverance and smarts and the benefits of being unique.

When given a dynamic setting and plot, change is inevitable. In the novel, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the author tells the story of a dystopian society which focuses on the task of defending itself from extraterrestrial creatures. Through the course of the book, the protagonist, Ender Wiggin, faces challenges that influence his actions and attitude. Although there are many characters who undergo change in the novel, Ender’s dynamic personality traits are more evident, being that he has a larger impact on readers. Due to being manipulated, Ender Wiggin changes from an ambitious young boy, to a subdued and wary character.

     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.

In Ender’s Game, the constrained amount of freedom is evident right at the beginning of the novel when the International Fleet places Ender in Battle School. Not only was Ender overwhelmed with numerous laws and rules, but he was frequently supervised. Ender’s frustration in the lack of freedom he receives can be shown when Card says, “Now he knew what he hated so much. He had no control over his own life. They ran everything. They made all the choices. Only the game was left to him, that was all, everything else was them and their rules and plans and lessons and programs, and all he could do was go this way or that way in battle” (Card 117). This quote demonstrates Ender’s predicament at Battle School. Many times in the novel, the International Fleet reminds Ender that he is the ‘best soldier’ there; however, he is still soldier doing what someone else wants him to do. As a result, the commanders praise Ender as he is described as the “best in this launch” (Card 26); however, by giving him a high status, in reality this is an illusion as he lacks autonomy and the title is meaningless. Also, Card uses the game Ender plays in Battle School as an image to show the lack of freedom he has. By stating how the only thing Ender has left is the game and that “all he could do was go this way or that way,” Card gives the impression that the only aspect in life Ender has a little freedom in, is still confined by rules that it is meaningless. Additionally, the constrained amount of freedom in Ender’s Game is present not only for Ender, but for everyone. This can be displayed when Valentine (Ender’s sister) claims that, “Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you” (Card 241). Valentine talks about the theme of

Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future and involves a kid named Ender, the protagonist of the story. He is sent to battle school to defeat the buggers (the enemies) with many other kids who are put through lots of challenges. The government has picked Ender who is 6 years old and is a third child, his older siblings were not selected by the government because his sister, Valentine, is too kind and compassionate while his older brother,Peter, is ruthless and hot-tempered. Ender is both a monster and a hero because he’s half Peter and half Valentine.

In the story Ender’s Game there is a boy named Ender Wiggin, he is a very smart child who is accepted into battle school. Where Ender is from they are not allowed to have more than two kids. Ender’s parents signed a contract saying they can have a third child, so Ender basically belongs to the government. Then Ender has to go to battle to fight the buggers. Once he defeated all the buggers he was know as a hero. In the book, Ender’s Game, there are many similarities and differences.

6th graders at Gull Lake watched the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The 6th graders at Gull Lake have been collecting similarities and differences from the novel and movie. Can the Westing Game be handled ? The Westing Game also has many clues and mysteries that have grabbed attention to the teachers and students at Gull Lake. The Westing Game contains many similarities and differences worth exploring.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about a boy named Ender Wiggin. When he is 6 years old he is taken from his home to go train in a place called Battle School to fight aliens, or “buggers”. He learns to command an army and plays games to train for the battle against the buggers. When the game is over, Ender learns it isn’t a game at all and they have won the war against the buggers. Two themes in this books are “Life isn’t always going to be fair”, and “Make the best of what you have.” These two themes are in the book because Ender has to deal with having a horrible army to train and the teachers aren’t fair to Ender at all.

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.

Ender’s Game deals with the human rights issue of discrimination because it shows how Ender is bullied for being different, the rules of the government has made everyone try to fit in, and people are seen based on how different they are. In the first place, Ender was a small third child and a government experiment so he was also brighter than anybody else, which made him the target of bullying. The government purposely made Ender be a target of bullying which “have been recognized as health problems for children because of their association with adjustment problems, including

“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.

Ender’s Game is a well known science-fiction genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many

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

“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 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.