Ender Wiggins Book Report

"I knocked him out standing up. It was like he was dead, standing there. And I kept hurting him"(222). These are the frantic words of Ender Wiggin as he talks to his friend Bean about his fight with Bonzo. Being the youngest one in battle school was not always easy. Ender had to put up with a lot of ridicule and harassment from the other children. Bonzo in particular, was constantly bothering Ender. After his continuous ridicule and mistreatment, Ender had the courage to stand up to Bonzo and defend himself. Tired of the constant audacity and harm, when confronted by Bonzo and a group of other children in the bathroom, Ender does not hold back. He stood up to the gang and defended himself before they could kill him. His determination and courage enabled him to get out of the dispute with hardly any cuts. This was not the only time Ender had to use courage to defend himself. He also demonstrates this when he defends himself from an older child, Stilson who continuously harassed him. When confronted by him, Ender does not hold back and repeatedly hits him until someone separates them. It is clear that when needed, Ender always found the courage to get himself out of confrontational situations and when worse came to worse, he used that courage effectively and defended himself.

Stilson groaned and rolled away from him. Ender walked around him and kicked him again, in the crotch. Stilson could not make a sound; he only doubled up and tears streamed out of his eyes.”(7) This quote proves that ender had crossed the line between self defense to hitting the enemy. This is could have been avoided if he just ran and found an adult after he put stilson on the ground. It would have been handled better if he did not kick him after stilson was on the ground. Ender did not suffer any consequences for killing stilson. “"Do you have any explanation for your behavior, young man?" asked the officer. Ender shook his head again. He didn't know what to say, and he was afraid to reveal himself to be any more monstrous than his actions had made him out to be. I'll take it, whatever the punishment is, he thought. Let's get it over with. "Tell me why you kept on kicking him. You had already won." "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too, right then, so they'd leave me alone."”(19) This quote satisfies the statement that the IF is corrupt because they did not punish ender instead they called this a test and passed him.

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

“Hey third, we’re talkin to you, Third, hey bugger lover, we’re talkin to you.” (Card. 6). In the beginning Stilson (a bully) comes up to Ender with a group of guys. They surround him and start to bully him. At first Ender takes it, then Stilson swings at him, and we see Ender break out of his shell. Ender not only beats him, but we find out he killed him. This is where we see Ender realize what he is capable of. After the fight, we see Ender go back to his quiet self. “Again a blow to the head. Go away Ender thought.I didn’t do anything to you.” (Card. 32). Another group of boys start

People would provoke Ender and he responded with violence and then would realize that he is doing the same thing his brother would normally do to him. After Ender got his monitor removed, Stilson and his gang were picking on him but this time he stood up for himself using violence and ended up killing Stilson. He cried until the bus came, noticing himself changing due to the removal of the monitor. This was the beginning of the International Fleet manipulating Ender, they deliberately removed the monitor to see how Ender would react without it, would he be ruthless like his older brother or compassionate like his sister, Valentine. There are other incidents that has happened with Ender involved which could have been stopped, but they let it happen. The others were collateral damage to make Ender like this and it made him feel bad about himself which affected him even

As evidence, “Ender, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know how it feels, I’m sorry, I’m your brother, I love you” (15). Peter’s attitude towards Ender was usually violent as Peter liked to beat up Ender and threaten him along with Valentine. Peter had also just beat up Ender after he had gotten his monitor out however, Peter was apologizing to Ender for the things that he’s done. Peter seems to regret his past decisions as an older brother and wants to change for the better. There isn’t enough of plot to conclude that Peter has truly changed his attitude towards Ender as he seemed to still threaten Valentine and is still sadistic. It could be that Peter was just saying that to mess with Ender or Peter truly had a struggle for identity and he truly regretted his

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

These people wanted to manipulate Ender’s natural character by taking him from those he loves, Forcing him to depend only on himself and not need assistance from anyone. While this learned self-reliance looks good for the I.F, Ender will break after being detached from everyone he grew close to during this book. My point is the fact that it changes the way a person behaves, this passage explains how after they completed what they wanted to do (isolate him)he became depressed. I feel that a message the author was trying to send was that no compassion for the way someone else is feeling leads to ruthlessness. The people that were talking about Ender did not care for the fact that they were making a six year old depressed, this ruthlessness changed a shy boy into a sad, lonely

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,

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for” describes that each person has a purpose in society (23). In Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game, a young boy named Ender Wiggin is chosen to fight an alien race called “the buggers” because he has the greatest traits in order to become a successful military commander. Ender Wiggin is an innocent boy, whom everyone seems to have a problem with due to the fact they are jealous of him. He feels this is unfair and soon realizes what he does is beneficial to humanity. Ender Wiggin changes his view of things when he goes to battle school, he learns that every person really is a tool in society.

Have you ever been so angry that you could kill? Maybe not, but that is normal for a character in Ender’s Game. Peter, Ender’s older brother makes many actions that can be explained by resenting Ender, being mad at his parents, and upset with himself and his sister, Valentine. In the book, the main character Ender is recruited to be trained to help fight a battle against the Buggers, who have attacked Earth twice.

Ever since Ender beat up Stilson he had viewed himself as “just like” Peter. Peter is mischievous and an awful person, he hurts people and it doesn't get to him. I think Ender may hurt people, but he is not just like Peter.

In order for some to reach their fullest potential, they need to have some stiff competition and be pressured in ways they have not before. In this case, Ender is pushed out of his comfort zone and reaching his fullest potential while he is at space school. Specifically, when he battles. For instance, in the book it states, “We have a battle with the Rabbit Army at 0700. I want us warmed up in gravity and ready to go” (page 176). Everyone is anxious to head to battle, including Ender. They force him to battle even if he was not fully ready or fully comfortable with it yet. It made him determined even more. He was making decisions that were life threatening in some cases. Soon after the battle was over, Ender receives a piece of paper

Imagine if you made a decision (one that can be good or bad) somewhere in your life and it later affects an event later in your life. However this is the case for Ender Wiggins, a young boy (at the age of 6-7) who is forced to make difficult decisions throughout the book. Some of which include the fate of humanity and his well-being. The character Ender Wiggins from the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card made a number of good decisions in tough situations that would have a different story if he chose the opposite choice.

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.