Essay on Ender's Game Book Report

At the beginning of the novel, the author describes a six-year-old boy named Ender with a lot of

     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.

Did you ever wish you were considered the most important person in the world? In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender, a six year old boy, who is chosen to save the world. Ender has to overcome many obstacles to become this great leader. The obstacles include being small, weak, and a third. Ender eventually overcomes these obstacles, however as a result Ender becomes a ruthless killer. Ender’s computer game shows how he is unknowingly interacting with the buggers, while the novel itself “Ender's Game” symbolizes how Ender decides who lives and who dies.

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

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

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

On page 31, Card writes "The fear stayed, all throughout dinner as no one sat by him in the mess hall. The other boys were talking about things- the big scoreboard on one wall, the food, the bigger kids. Ender could only watch in isolation." Even in a new environment where he knows no one, Ender is still isolated and cannot manage to fit in with the other kids at battle school. As the story continues, Ender manages to make a few friends but he never becomes exceptionally close with anyone due to the fact that he is not like the others at battle school which the commanders such as Graff make very well known. Ender is much more intelligent and quick minded than the others, making his advancement in battle school quite rapid, leaving his acquaintances and the few he calls friends in his shadow. Ender's skills make him isolated since no one can even come close to defeating him, thus he cannot relate to his peers. At the beginning of Chapter 15; The Speaker of the Dead Ender, Ender is not brought back home to earth. Card formulates, " At first Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted

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.

The significance of relationships in Ender’s Game Throughout the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the character Ender Wiggin faces difficulties with developing and maintaining personal relationships. As he learns to deal with various kinds of discrete individuals, Ender discovers that each comes with its own lessons to learn. It is often said that “everything happens for a reason”, and as individuals that are of either pure torment and negativity, or pure love and positivity, appear and re-appear in his life, this statement is proven to be true for Ender. Thus, the building of personal relationships, plays an essential role in molding Ender into a powerful and definite leader. All in all, Ender is most notably influenced by his

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin has been through a lot during the story. Throughout Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender has had many challenges to face during his character development. These challenges include: isolation, Battle School, other students, etc. The story of Ender’s Game tries to focus on displaying the strength of isolation by separating Ender from people who can help him. In doing so, Ender adapts to his environment and becomes able to face impossible challenges for normal people, despite the fact that it’s a dangerous strategy.

Throughout the book it becomes clear that the government wants Ender to be perfect because they believe he's their only hope. Ender's brother Peter is very intelligent, but he's a violent sociopath, Ender’s sister Valentine is also very intelligent but she was

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.

In the book Ender’s Game there is a boy named Ender Wiggins who has been chosen to go to battle school to prepare for war with an alien race called the buggers. The battle school is a big place with a dome in the middle where they play the war games against other soldiers. Ender ends up meeting multiple people in the battle school that become his friends. Ender eventually graduates from battle school and becoming a commander of his own fleet of ships and his friends end up in his fleet and they win the war against the buggers. Little did they know that they weren’t playing simulations but they were actually fighting in the actual

“It admirably avoids many of the pitfalls of adapting this book, but seems to have lost some of the life and pace as well” - Helen O'Hara. Ender’s Game is a story about an eight year old boy, named Andrew Wiggen. He is enrolled into a military boot camp, where he and others are trained to play certain games, that will show their potential to lead a fleet against a constantly growing enemy. The movie Ender's Game miss Several themes and ideas of the book.