Ender's Battle Analysis

In Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, the reader is taken into a fascinating futuristic world in which the human race is in danger. Having twice survived alien attack, the human race, fearing a more powerful invasion, develop a program to breed and train a warrior who will lead them to a final victory. The young boy chosen to do just that is six year old Andrew Wiggin also known as Ender. According to the government, Ender exhibits the traits needed to assure victory. At six years old he enters battle school and begins preparation for the bugger war. While in battle school Ender excels in simulation games of battles and is quickly promoted to higher levels in his training. However, being the best of the best at this school doesn't make

Ender’s thoughts are conflicted and alter because he does not believe the battle school is right for kids. His friend Dink tells him that “The Battle School didn’t create anything. It just destroys”(109). Ender starts to believe that Dink was right, and the Battle School makes people crazy. He starts to wonder if that will ever happen to him. After he is trained at Eros, and defeats the buggers he tells his friends, “I am crazy” (303). He admits that he is no longer the little boy he used to be, he and his life has completely changed.

He talks to himself and says, “Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier than he would ever have been otherwise" (Card 119). Enders recognizes that his intelligence deprives him of the many pleasures of childhood and replaces those pleasures with unconscionable pressures and expectations. He is superior in creativity, logic, sensitivity, intelligence, psychological understanding of others, morality, and hand-to-hand combat (Kessel 2). Ender always knew the answer to everything and knew his opponent's next move before they did it during a

Ender is constantly thinks about turning out like Peter and he does not want to fall into Peter’s evil footsteps as he is heartless. There is no part of him that desires control, and when he has it, he wishes only to avoid the abuses that he sees others commit. But Ender learns that in life we are sometimes forced to play games that we would rather not play, and that sometimes winning must be second to nothing else. Still, he manages to retain his humanity and his compassion wins out in the end, as he sets out to repay his debt to the buggers. The government plays all sorts of schemes like manipulation to acquire success. The government manipulates Valentine, the students of the battle school and especially Ender (SparkNotes). The narrator says, “He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys.” (Card 121). Most of Ender’s identity problems come from his worry that he’s a bully and a killer, like Peter.

Ender is now in command school. Still in the guidance of Colonel Graff. As we go on through the book and chapter fourteen we find out that many of the groups need teachers and/or commanders. We ultimately find a character that comes back to be the teacher of Ender, Mazer Rackham. Ender starts his final exam. As he went through it, suddenly all the military adults came and congratulated him and he had beat them. He thought it was it was all a game. It turns out it was all real. "This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real." (296)

In the book Ender’s game the question who will save humanity is constantly asked, even after Ender is showing impressive results, they question is he really gonna hold up until the end or is he gonna burnout at the last second. However one question has always arose will there be a war on earth after Ender has ended the war, between America and the Russians in order to kill Ender because he is feared by politicians. Is Peter really the bad guy or is he who the real one that Colonel Graff Wanted?

Ender takes many journeys throughout the book, his literal, and most obvious, being his trip to the battle school. In the battle school, he learns many valuable lessons such as, when to stand your ground. He applied this when he fought his bully in the bathroom and killed him by accident. During his journey, he played a game that simulated situations based on the information gathered on the player. Ender’s mental health begins

Imagine being six years old, and being taken from a family that doesn't love you, to train so you can save the world. In the novel Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, this is what Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, the main protagonist, has to endure. Ender’s Game takes place in the future. Ender lives in Greensboro North Carolina. Ender wears a government issued monitor so they can see if he has what it takes to save the world, because humans are at war with an alien race called “Buggers”. Throughout the novel he goes through series of conflicts. Some examples include leaving his family to train, facing the kids who want to hurt him, being isolated, and pushed so he can be the best commander in the world. As the novel unfolds it is evident that Ender

The first major event in Ender’s Game is Ender’s decision to go to Battle School. Ender is a virtual pariah at home, bullied by other boys, and in danger from his cruel brother. He leaves his family partly because he wants to be safe, keep Valentine safe, and fulfill his role as a “Third” child in society. Ender’s decision to leave home is a big step toward maturity for him. One important theme in the story is Consequentialism, or the end justifies the means. This is shown in Ender’s fight with Stilson. According to the adults, it’s acceptable for Ender to kill Stilson as long as he has a well enough explanation and good intentions. This also occurs when Enders wipes out the whole Bugger species. Everyone thought his actions were justified because he saved the human race. Another important event in Ender’s story is the games he plays and how it impacts his life. The first game he plays in the story is buggers and astronauts, where he realizes how savage Peter can be to him at times. At battle school Ender plays in the battle room and also plays the mind games. These games show the raw talent Ender possesses and the aggressiveness he shows. As Ender continued to play more games, he feared he was turning into a monster like Peter. The final game Ender plays is the simulation where he finds out that it was a real attack. All of the elements are crucial in Ender’s Game because it changes Ender’s life in some

At the beginning of the novel, Ender is chosen by Colonel Graff to take place in a program called Battle School. Here, Ender learns all about fighting in gravity, using special weapons, and creating battle plans. Ender is a Launchie, someone who is new to the school. Since day one, Andrew is the top of his class, and quickly ranked up to Bonzo’s toon. Bonzo is supposed to be his teacher, but it turns out much differently. Since Ender is still very young, he isn’t treated like the older kids. Bonzo tells him to stay away from their practices, and in the back of practice battles. Ender decides the only thing he can do is help the Launchies. This will give him leadership skills, and give them extra practice.

Ender has created new and effective battle strategies which have allowed him to win limitless games. As time progresses, all of the enemy teams that Ender faces slowly began to adapt to Ender’s strategies. Despite all this, Ender does seem to worry. Instead, “Ender persuaded himself to accept them as another form of praise. Already the other armies were beginning to imitate Ender. Now most soldiers attacked with their knees tucked under them.” (187) This quotation shows that his strategies and tactics are very effective and assisted many people in their victory during the team battles. It also shows Enders ability to create new tactics that benefit him and his teammates, and how the others are incompetent compared to Ender since they are not clever enough to come up with an effective strategy to win. Another example that shows Ender has gained an insurmountable amount of respect is when Ender was in the Battle room training and he “watched the young kids in Petra’s army, fresh out of their launch groups, watch how they played.” (139) This quotation shows how the kids are interested and fascinated in what Ender is doing, inside the Battle Room, since Ender was one of the Toon leaders before he became the commander of the Dragon army. When Ender is being watched by the kids, he feels proud of what he has

Ender does not play the game like everyone else does. He tries to cerebrate of different, ingenious ways to play. Ender demonstrates his ingenuity when he created a fake profile on the desks. “Ender hadn't cracked the teachers' security system yet, so he couldn't pretend to be a teacher. But he was able to set up a file for a nonexistent student” (p 49). He is clever and ingenious. Ender thought of an action that no other student would have thought of. His conception was so creative and devious that no other student could figure out how he did it. When Ender was playing the mind games on his desk, he was faced with a difficult situation. He could never win when he reached the caliber with the Giant’s drink. It seemed as if every alternative led him to unsuccess. Conclusively, Ender determined that there was another way to vanquish the Giant. “And instead of pushing his face into one of the liquids, he kicked one over, then the other, and dodged the Giant’s huge hands as the Giant shouted, “Cheater, cheater!” He jumped at the Giant’s face” (p.64). Ender thought of a creative tactic that would allow for him to surmount an “impossible” level. Bean isn’t proximately as creative or pristine as Ender. Ender uses his ingenuity, creativity, and originality more than Bean. The International Fleet Battle School is in great need of a Battle Commander who uses their

Have you ever been in command of an entire space army? Imagine yourself with all the latest technology for war. visualize the people of earth putting all of their hope into you, and no else. In the tale of Ender Wiggin, he was the person you were imagining, Ender was a young boy who was put into command school to tailor the traits of a great soldier. The movie and book showed amazing traits of his character but only one can be better.

On the ship over, he meets General Graff who isolates him from the beginning. He calls Ender out as a special one, and that he will be the only one to succeed there. Then he gets bullied by a few kids, and in self-defense breaks one of their arms. The other kids learn that he isn’t to be messed with, and most of them leave him alone. Ender is kicked out of an army with his new friends in it and is forced to make new acquaintances to help him on his journey. Everyone who Ender meets teaches him a lesson and Ender uses those lessons to be a good commander. Also, Ender has no contact with Earth anymore. The government has made Valentine write a letter to Ender, but he can tell that she was forced to do it and it hurts his feelings. Ender doesn’t really seem to have many friends, and that is affecting his ability to come up with new strategies and battle plans to save the world and everyone in

When Ender is given a choice he will often put a vast amount of thought into his decision, if he has the time of course. In the book one of Ender's very few commanders were talking to him and demanded him not to leave the wall in the battle room. Basically, his commander was afraid of failure, he was afraid if he gave him a chance that he would mess up and make the team look bad. This commanders view of Ender was basically that Ender was useless.