Rufus Mosley Intro to Business Professor: Weisberg Exam 2 1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card was a tremendous book. Though it may not have been the most entertaining book out there, it definitely had some good points in the storyline. The themes I noticed in the book were compassion and tyranny, along with the role that children can play. The protagonist in the book is Ender Wiggins, and the antagonist is Peter Wiggins. The personal meaning I took from this book is that it does not matter your age on what you can achieve. Ender is just a young boy who leads and saves the world. The book takes place in the future even though it was written in the 80’s. Ender is born into a family of highly intelligent people. As a child he is hated by his brother, Peter, along with other schoolmates and is protected by his sister, Valentine. He has to leave Valentine behind when he is taken away to Battle School, which is located on a ship very far away from earth so he can assist in the fight against the buggers. Ender shows off his extreme intelligence and is separated from the rest of the recruits by Colonel Graff of the International Fleet. Ender then becomes friends with a recruit name Alai. This aids Ender to make friends and fit in with people. Ender is noticed by the military commanders because of his dominance in “the mind game”. He is promoted to the Salamander Army shortly after. While in the Salamander Army, Ender becomes friends with the only girl, Petra Arkanian, but is
He made the choice to go to the Battle School for some years. He will not be able to see his family for a long time. That would be a very hard decision to make. That’s because Ender is only six and he made the decision to go. For that I think Ender is brave and has confidence.
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 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.
Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict will help him be a better leader and win games. Finally, his experience with Shen and Bernard teaches Ender that having humor will easily allow him to make friends. Overall, Ender’s experience in Battle School teaches him many things about
In the beginning of the book Ender gets his monitor removed and gets into a fight. The way he handled the fight is what caused colonel Graff to offer Ender to join battle school. In the start of battle school, Ender got picked on a lot, until he killed Bonzo, he was promoted to commander, commanding his own army, he defeated a lot of other armies in the school. In the commanding part of the book, he was getting stressed and losing sleep, he went back to Earth because he didn’t want to be in battle school anymore, then his sister convinced him to go to Eros to train for the bugger war, when he was playing simulations of a bugger invasion, he finally defeated the buggers and Graff told him that the games were actually real, not simulators. After he beat the buggers, another war started on Earth, his sister met with him where he was and told him that he should be governor at another planet and went around to find a new planet for a new era for the buggers.
Ender has been made an easy target because he is an outcast. His character is a smart boy who is constantly being bullied for something that can't be controlled by him. “No, no, I don't want your help. I can do it on my own, you little bastard, you little third” (Card 2). Ender is described from his brother Peter not important. That Ender is just a third kid and nothing else is important. Peter calls Ender a bastard only because Ender is smarter than Peter and Peter wants to be the smart perfect child.
Ender is kicked out of Salamander army and sent to Rat army. Here, he is under the command of Dink Meeker. In this army, however; Ender is used in battles and excels in his battle and command position. He is able to teach the army a lot of new strategies and ends up winning battles. After a while in Rat army, Ender graduates to a different army, an army of his own.
This jealousy led to Ender being isolated in the 1st few weeks of battle school. Enders isolation might have been influenced by the fact that Orson Scott Card had to move a lot when he was a child. Card’s family kept moving to different states which in turn made it hard for him to make friends because he was always moving to new schools. Because of Orson’s isolation he became very interested in books and reading at a young age. This reflects how ender dealt with the loneliness of being an outcast.
One was that he was moved from his launchy group to salamander army. Bronzo the leader of salamander army didn't want ender to be in his army because Ender was only six. But Ender did meet a friend in salamander named Petra. Petra basically took Ender under her wing and showed him the basics of the game. Then Bonzo traded Ender to rat army there he meet some pretty nice people. He then started his own training group with his old friends from his launch group, word got out and some of the older boys didn't like that ender was teaching kids how to fight. So they ganged up and tried to fight Ender and his friends. They older boys didn't know how good the kids were and lost.
Valentine is Ender’s older sister and provides Ender with a positive role model at a sibling level. Valentine
At the beginning of the story Ender has a Monitor that record what he sees and goes onto his neck, but some people take it off, so Ender goes home and is met by a man named Graff who wants him to come to battle school to train Ender for the Bugger war. Ender decides to go, he has to ride a rocket ship there, he is set apart from the rest of the kids in the rocket ship launch. He gets to the school where shortly after he gets moved to an army, but soon after he kills his commander and gets his own army to command named Dragon army. He trains his army and wins all of his battles, till some people decide to take him to command school, but Ender doesn't want to go so he returns to Earth. He then leaves Earth and goes to command school where he trains, and commands some of his old buddies and kills all of the buggers, but feels terrible, so he goes to a colony and finds a bugger queen and becomes the speaker of the dead.
The smallest one out of the group is Bean, who is very intelligent like Ender, and proves himself in battle. Ender’s army wins every battle they are given, including the one against Bonzo. After the battle, Bonzo brutally attacks Ender, and because of this, Ender is removed from Battle School and put into Commander School. While at Commander School, Graff takes Ender to a planet called Eros, which is where the International Fleet command is. Ender is then introduced to Mazer Rackham there. Mazer is known as the hero of the second bugger invasion that saved mankind. Rackham teaches Ender how to battle with the fleet and Ender quickly learns the buggers are highly evolved. When Ender is faced with an impossible battle, many officers are watching to see how he handles it. Ender finds the strength to pull through to victory. This battle brings Ender to the realization that the battle was real, as were the other battles that were supposedly simulated. Finding out that he lost the lives of many buggers took its toll on Ender. When Ender found out he was being used, he was informed that it was important for him to be able to understand the enemy. They needed Ender to believe that it was a game so he would win at any cost, even if it meant losing
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
In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, the reader's start off by being introduced to the character of Ender, who was extremely smart, intelligent, and fearless throughout the story. He is not only a very important character, but he is the protagonist of the story. Ender has made some tough decisions throughout his time in training and being in multiple different army. Ender is just a six-year-old boy facing challenges that not even an adult would want to face. It's hard to comprehend the age of Ender and what he goes through and how he handles it.
Ender is one of the best commanders the International Fleet has ever wanted. He is put through the physical task that no battle student has ever done before. At Battle School, Ender is the commander of the dragon army, and is pressured everyday to compete in a battle against another army. Ender wins seven out of the seven battles he played in a week (Card 186). This shows Ender’s intellect over his irrationality and emotion. It also shows a new train of thought, because no other army is put through these stressful battle situations. When Ender takes part in the commander school training, there is a part where Ender unleashes against Petra (Card 284). Ender let his emotions get to him as they normally do. Ender sometimes lets his emotions too much, rather than think, he does irrational stuff. Ender is a good for David Hartwell’s idea, but yet he contradicts it. Ender finds himself in a hard situation. He decides to go and restart the bugger colony. This scientific advancement that Ender wants to bring to the buggers is pessimistic for the International Fleet, and they cannot do anything to stop