Ender's Character Analysis

Ender is using his old experiences to teach his army, which shows him intelligent. When he was practicing alone or sometimes with Petra, he learned many moves and tricks, and now when he is a commander he can use those experiences to teach his army how to play better. Ender is being smart. He is been learning from other people and when he has his army he can use those tricks, so they can be better soldiers. He is making his army strong enough, and that shows that Ender is being smart. However, Ender never knows why he has been isolated and manipulated by Graff. For example, Ender thought that if you are a leader/commander you should isolate or manipulate only one person in your army, just because they are smart. One day Ender was talking to Bean and said, “Graff had isolated me to make me struggle, to make me prove, not that I was competent, but that I am for better than everyone else. That’s what I am doing to you, Bean. I am hurting you to make you a batter soldier in every way.” (167). Ender thought that what all commanders do. They always push one soldier, so they can make him/her a good commander in future. As he is doing to Bean. Ender never knows why Graff had isolated and manipulated him. These are some reasons that makes Ender a blended character in the novel Ender’s

Ender’s experience as commander in Battle School teaches him that being strict will help his army win games. When first being assigned commander, Ender knows that he needs to treat the Launchies just like how he was treated. This means that he needs to incorporate discipline on his new Launchies. While they are dressing, Ender orders them to run to the practice room, and when some of them don’t dress quickly enough, he yells, “Dress faster next time… next week the rule is two minutes” (158). Right from the start, Ender takes a gamble and utilizes strong disciplinary tactics on his rookies. Ender knows that his true potential was only reached after being pushed to his limits. Therefore, he attempts to exploit this same objective with the Launchies. The tactics can only be considered effective if demonstrated in the game scores, however. Ender and his Dragon Army experience many victories following their many grueling practice sessions. Following the games, “Dragon Army had fought seven battles in seven days. The score stood 7 wins and 0 losses” (186). Ender finds out that his rigorous training sessions produced a perfect army who wins every game. Ender pushes his Launchies to their absolute limit and later is able to face an expert army. Through his skillful leadership, Ender teaches his rookies how to meet the challenges of the

In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller involves a character named John Proctor, an even-tempered farmer, who cared about how others saw him as. Procter was a married man to Elizabeth Proctor and a father of three as well. Throughout the book, Procter is shown as a man obsessed with his status to protect his name. The following quote says “... there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites. He was the kind of man--powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led….”, this shows he was the type of a person to unleash his temper with people often, although it was good because he was well known for revealing hypocrisy. This gave him honor in his town and respect by his

Sometimes making peace with the past can lead to a better future. In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender feels he has to make up for the crimes that he has committed. To do this he must help the buggers find a new home. This action is essential because Ender blames himself for winning a war that never needed to be fought.

As he progresses through Battle school, Ender becomes increasingly disengaged from his classmates. During the first training session, he and his peers are exposed to the concept of null gravity, where Ender realizes that he can control how he perceives what is up and down and which way could be thought of as right or wrong. Having expressed these concepts, he is immediately praised by the teachers, who glorify his ideas as if Ender were genius, subsequently evoking feelings of jealousy in the other children. Ender is instantly the outcast; all his classmates quickly condemn him for being a teacher’s pet. It is, however, revealed later in the chapter that the behavior of the teachers was not coincidental, but that they were in fact creating a diversion between Ender and the class to bring about his own will. The teachers all agree amongst themselves; Ender can never “come to believe anybody will ever help him [or] think there’s an easy way out,” (Card, 70). This means that Ender’s instructors think that he should be independent, and therefore not have the opportunity to blame others for his actions. Card writes this to express his opinion that while a person can gain valuable experiences by working with others, it is only when a person is alone that they will truly strengthen their own will. He uses this to emphasize that too much reliance on others can be one’s downfall. This scene connects to the

“Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.” ~ Barry Bonds. In this world bad situations occur frequently and it takes a good strong person to handle them in a mature way. Dealing with them this way not only shows that the person has self-control, but also makes them a good role model for people to look up to. In the book The Chosen, Chaim Potok uses Mr. Galanter to express his opinions of a good role model. Acting as a baseball coach and gym teacher, young boys look to him for guidance and motivation every day. Having this kind of position causes stress at times, and requires him to stay calm and level headed. Throughout this book, Mr. Galanter

One who succumbs under the harshness of facing adversity is Eliezer Wiesel. For instance, on his way to a concentration camp, he sees the bodies of babies and children being burned in a ditch: "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” (31). When Elie asks, “Why should I bless His name?”, after witnessing this catastrophe, his apostasy grows stronger. As he experiences the Nazis punishments, his ultimate trust in God diminishes into conflicts with what he should truly believe in. Furthermore, when Elie finally reaches the last concentration camp and wakes up, he thinks about looking for his missing father,

Ender and the Launchies ride a rocket ship to space. Colonel Graff manipulates the kids to think they are dumb and Ender is the smartest. Colonel Graff says,’’But we chose the best of the best, and that’s the only kind you’re going to meet now’’ ( 34)... And when I tell you Ender Wiggin is the best in this launch, take the hint, my little dorklings’’ (34). Colonel Graff is using manipulation to not make the kids talk to Ender or make him feel too comfortable or he might not do his best in

People around Ender were concerned about his desire to conform, because he was their last hope. The author wrote, “He’s too malleable” (1). Ender was easily persuaded to do things, according to the International Fleet. “Too willing to submerge himself in someone else’s will,” the author wrote (1). The I.F. officials worried, because they were afraid he would help, or have compassion for the enemy.

Everyone had faith in Ender because he had an established track record to help people he led, and of winning in battle. "Ender Wiggin, the little farthead who leads the standings, what a pleasure to have you with us." The commander of Rat Army lay sprawled on a lower bunk wearing only his desk. "With you around, how can any army lose?" Several of the boys nearby laughed.”

Heroism, something all kids look to when dealing with problems. A kid being a hero, unheard of, until now. Is being a hero always a good thing? In Ender’s Game, Ender shows many qualities of heroism and defeats the bugger, saving the human race without knowing he was doing harm to anyone. Is killing millions of people really worth the title of being a hero?

Ender is a young boy that is very talented coming from a well known family. His mother, father, sister, and brother live on the planet considered earth, however, because the world is at stake he has been sent to space to train for war.“Battle School is where the best and brightest are trained to be military commanders through participation in intricate war games.” “I'm crazy," said Ender(Chapter 8). "But I think I'm OK(Chapter 8). Ender is not letting these fears and obstacles get in his way of achieving his goal as a commander and his understanding of what and why he was chosen to be in battle school so early. Based on the quote as they train him in the different direction from the way he used to live and the way they live the grown ups soon come to the understanding that he is intelligent and can be a great help for the battle against the buggers. As they continue to train through different section they become more and more interested into his thoughts tracking his every movement and soon inform him he will play a big part in their mission to save the

Ender is different from all others of his species in that he is pretty much the genius of the human race. The main trait that differentiates his genius from others is his innate ability for compassion. In contrast, the commanders of the human species in charge of protecting the human race from the alien buggers have a much shallower genius (Card 252-253). While they are brilliant in terms of military strategy they only view the buggers as a systemic threat to human life. As Graff, a higher order commander states, “When it comes down to it, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let’s make damn sure we’re the ones alive in the end” (Card 253).

Through his significant role in Ender’s life as a mentor, Mazer influenced Ender by adding the final touches to his military education and being a role model. Ender valued and respected Mazer for being an excellent instructor and commander. “For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire” (Ender’s Game, Chapter 14). From this, we can conclude that despite some of his questionable tactics, Ender thought of him highly because he was the first teacher who had pointed out things that he did not know. What is more, Ender had finally found a person who thinks and acts much like himself. In addition to being a mentor, he was also Ender’s initiator. “Pay attention, please, Ender. Today is your final examination in Command School. These observers are here to evaluate what you have learned…” (Ender’s Game, Chapter 14). In this piece of evidence, we clearly see that Mazer Rackham, the initiator gave some knowledge to Ender, the initiant. We can also conclude that Mazer is the initiator from the fact that he is older and more experienced that Ender, he has information which he gives to Ender and he leads Ender through a series of tasks and ordeals which Ender needs to complete. When Ender finishes the process of initiation, Ender is no longer a student at the Command School, but a commander. Throughout the book, Mazer influences Ender in many ways, the

The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell, is a novel following a young Anglo-Saxon boy named Uhtred through his journey of growing up as a dane after being taken in a battle. When Uhtred is seven years old Danes come to where he lives,Bebbanburg, and kill his brother. Since he is next in line to own and rule Bebbanburg, his father takes him into battle against the danes. However, when Uhtred sees the man that killed his brother, he charges into battle and meets someone that would shape him into being the man he will become. After his father is killed in the battle, the man who killed his brothers takes him back and raises him as a son due to his courageous behaviors at the battle. The influence the Danish culture had on Uhtred at such a young age is more than prevalent through his actions and thoughts in the book. Although he was born and Anglo-Saxon, Uhtred displays traits of a Dane.