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Ender's Game Character Analysis Essay

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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. 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. Ender didn't listen to really anything this commander told him which led to him coming from the wall in the battle room. Because of Ender disobeying his commander's orders the result was a tie and not a loss. The commander was still agitated with Ender even though he saved the team from a loss. …show more content…

His commander told him that since he disobeyed by not only coming from the wall he shot his gun as well(he was told not to do that either),it was unclear to me why he wasn't allowed to shoot his gun and it still is, my thoughts are maybe the commander didn't want him to accidentally shoot somebody on his own team, I don't understand what they have to lose. Don't forget that these are just six and seven-year olds were talking about

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