Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card

After Ender’s important battle, they tell him that all of it was real and that he had actually defeated the buggers. Ender thinks to himself, “Real. Not a game. Ender’s mind was too tired to cope with it all. They weren’t just points of light in the air, they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And a real world that he had blasted into oblivion. He walked through the crowd, dodging their congratulations, ignoring their hands, their words, their rejoicing” (Card 297). When Ender realizes that they have been lying to him and using him as a weapon, he becomes angry. Ender yells at Graff and Mazer, “‘ I didn’t want to kill them all. I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! You didn’t want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!’” (Card 297). If Ender would have known that he would have killed people and creatures, he would not have gone to battle school in the first place. Death is very hard on Ender and he does not know how he can live with such a burden. Ender’s change in character is due to him being a victim of

This whole war could have been avoided if the humans had made a real effort to communicate. “As if in answer, he saw the first of all his battles with the bugger fleets. He had seen it before on the simulator; now he saw it as the hive-queen saw it, through many different eyes. The buggers formed their globe of ships, and then the terrible fighters came out of the darkness and the Little Doctor destroyed them in a blaze of light.” This quote proves the buggers were innocent and made a mistake thinking we were non intelligent beings. This means that every bugger he killed was an innocent one and that is a huge regret to bear. This time ender does suffer consequences for killing the buggers. "I'll carry you," said Ender, "I'll go from world to world until I find a time and a 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 quote proves that ender has a promise to fulfill and he owes the buggers his future because he took away theirs. He suffers huge emotional pain because of killing millions of innocent lives.There flashed through his mind a dozen images of human beings being killed by buggers, but with the image came a grief so powerful he could not bear it, and he wept their tears for them.” This quote proves that there is a lot

At this point, Ender starts seeing another side to things. Even though Ender realizes and admits to himself that he is being manipulated and tricked, he still continues onward.

He becomes so reckless he doesn’t even realize he’s hurting someone until after they are on the floor, “It took Ender by surprise he hadn’t thought to put Stilson on the ground with one kick” (7). What Ender doesn’t realize is that he doesn’t even comprehend what's going around him until he see’s the damage. Just like Peter, Ender never leaves anyone without any pain when they are angered. Filled with hatred towards Ender, Peter never leaves a chance to physically hurt Ender, he hurts him so much that Ender repeats the same anger and ruthlessness towards others.Funny thing is that even Ender knows that he has Peter in him and that in reality, he’s not really the innocent kid his sister and family thinks he

139). In the beginning no one cared about little Ender Wiggin. Ender had no friends and he also had zero respect. Now right as Ender is getting more friends, everyone is giving him so much respect. He has improved so rapidly and people are almost scared of him, which leads to Ender getting all of this new respect. He feels like there is a wall between him and his friends, because now he has to relate to them on a whole new level. At first he could talk with them and be a kid around them, and now it is like people expect him to act and be more mature . Another quote that proves my point is “Ender Wiggin crying?” (Card. 151). He can not do things without people finding out, and they put him on such a high pedestal that Ender can not do certain things without getting

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

At the beginning of the story, Ender hated Peter for bullying him and his sister Valentine. His hate for Peter by the end of the book, however, seems to have changed, “Back and forth across the ansible Ender and Peter spoke, with Peter pouring out the stories of his days and years, his crimes and his kindnesses. And when he died, Ender wrote a second volume, again signed by the Speaker of the Dead” (Card 323). Moreover, Ender also chose to forgive the Buggers. Even though they were enemies, Ender tried to make peace, “And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time” (Card 324). Ender worked to repay the Buggers since he had destroyed their entire species. He was able to forgive the buggers for attacking Earth and kept the Bugger’s civilization going, and was also able to forgive Peter for treating him and Valentine so

Ender does not want to be Peter, who was a cold-hearted killer. Ender was beginning to understand the buggers and find out their reasoning behind the war, but before he could fully understand, the I.F. made him defeat the buggers without even knowing. It also made Ender upset when he found out that he not only just killed one queen, he killed an entire colony and world of queens. Another situation that also upset Ender was when Ender killed Bonzo. Ender didn’t mean to hurt him, but he had to, for self-defense. “’Why should I want to beat anybody?’ Ender pressed his palms against his eyes. ‘I hurt Bonzo really bad today, Bean. I really hurt him… I knocked him out standing up. It was like he was dead, standing there. And I kept hurting him… I just wanted to make sure he never hurt me again’” (222). Although Ender disliked Bonzo, Ender loved him because when he truly understands his opponent to defeat them, he also cared for them. This not only disconcerted him, it made Ender despise the

I don’t have murder in my heart” (Card, 84). Because Ender is afraid of becoming like his brother, he struggles with what he is and the things he did since he left home. Man vs. Society: “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.” (Card, 219) Valentine tells Ender that the government can control everyone. Families are not allowed to have more than two children unless the government gave them permission. The government allowed Ender, a third child, to be born in order to put an end to the bugger invasion. Man vs. Technology: The Battle School invented a computer mind game that challenges the children’s mind. Ender tries multiple times to beat the game, but the game always presents new obstacles. Man vs. Supernatural: “It’s the buggers themselves. I don’t know anything about them, and yet someday I’m supposed to fight them.” (Card, 167) The buggers are a race of aliens who invade Earth. They are a mysterious species that seem to possess one mind altogether. Several decades before Ender was born, the buggers were defeated, but they are invading again. The buggers’ Third Invasion is the reason Ender is taken to Battle School.

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

When Ender finds out that he killed a whole race he is angry and says “’I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer!”’(297).Throughout his journey Ender thinks that he is a replica of Peter. This is one of the many instances where Ender feels his whole persona is being manipulated into a copy of Peter by leaders at Battle School. Once Ender recognizes that most of his choices have been influenced by commanders such as Colonel Graff he decides to make a decision of his own by finding the buggers a new home.

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

When Ender is at the battle school, it is evident that the training and harsh atmosphere is taking a toll on him, “Since becoming commander, he never slept more than five hours a night…Sometimes he worked at his desk…straining his eyes to use the dim display. Usually, though, he stared at the invisible ceiling and thought” (Card 174). Later, he is not even able to get a joke, “therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke.’ Ender didn’t see what was funny about it” (Card 273). When Ender discovered he was tricked into destroying the entirety of the buggers, he became depressed thinking about the genocide that he had just committed, “Real. Not a game. Ender’s mid was too tired to cope with it all. They weren’t just points of light in the air, they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And a real world he had blasted to oblivion” (Card 297).

As an understanding of the buggers is formed, Ender and thus the reader come to conceive of the bugger as raman. Ender has the epiphany that the buggers are “A single person” (268) only after he is finally shown that the defeat of the buggers in the second invasion was not censored but displayed publicly for all to see. It is at this point that the buggers undergo the transformation from varelse to the raman. Now instead of the buggers being a group of aliens who communicate in a manner that we do not understand the bugger is a single unified entity who does not communicate because they have never had anyone to communicate with, they become her. The hive queens are the individual that thinks, the buggers are merely the physical bodies that carry out the required actions.