Ender's Game Essay

     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.

Ender has a lot to think about towards the end of the book. He had became a captain earlier then a lot of the other captains. Ender was a smart kid and his brother Peter was jealous of him because he got accepted to battle school. Ender also had a sister that was sweet and he loved her. Ender is kinda like both Peter and Valentine they kinda are the same in a way. Ender He killed a lot of people but he isn’t anything like peter. He also have a good heart but he’s also isn’t like valentine. He’s kinda mixed with both of them because he is violent but has a great heart.

“Hey third, we’re talkin to you, Third, hey bugger lover, we’re talkin to you.” (Card. 6). In the beginning Stilson (a bully) comes up to Ender with a group of guys. They surround him and start to bully him. At first Ender takes it, then Stilson swings at him, and we see Ender break out of his shell. Ender not only beats him, but we find out he killed him. This is where we see Ender realize what he is capable of. After the fight, we see Ender go back to his quiet self. “Again a blow to the head. Go away Ender thought.I didn’t do anything to you.” (Card. 32). Another group of boys start

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

Childhood innocence contains curiosity, imagination and a frail mind that has yet to experience the real world. A young boy, Ender Wiggin, goes through many things a child his age normally wouldn’t experience. As he grows up in Battle and Command School, his humanity slowly strips away due to being isolated and pressured to be the commander that the International Fleet needs. Though everyone benefit from the end result, things they did to win the war should not be excused.

Have you ever been so angry that you could kill? Maybe not, but that is normal for a character in Ender’s Game. Peter, Ender’s older brother makes many actions that can be explained by resenting Ender, being mad at his parents, and upset with himself and his sister, Valentine. In the book, the main character Ender is recruited to be trained to help fight a battle against the Buggers, who have attacked Earth twice.

Ender is continuously bullied when he goes off to battle school because of his age and being a “third.” Peter Wiggin is a round, static, and explicit character. He is the older brother of Peter and he is considered the most violent

At the beginning of the novel, Ender was a shy, lonely 6 year old. He was scared and unaware of what he was capable of doing. Ender didn’t realize how much power he had in his own hands. He was most afraid of his older brother Peter. He does not want to be anything like Peter.

I completely agree with everything you said. Ender never wanted to be anything like Peter. As a child, he was constantly bullied and he tormented by Peter. Your quote is interesting to me because it sums up what Ender was created for. Even though he is ruthless as Peter, he is also empathetic as sister, Valentine. One way he shows how ruthless he can be is when he beats up Stilson so badly and he continues to beat him even when he was on the ground and could not defend himself. When it was time to kill the buggers, he did not want to because he had grown attach to them and he does not want to hurt anyone. After the buggers were killed and everyone were celebrating, he was the only one not celebrating. He was both sad and angry because he

Ender Wiggin has lived through a tough childhood at home, and at school. Getting bullied by older boys at school, and coming home to get physically bullied by his older brother Peter. Ender has kept his monitor longer than anyone of the older boys in school. Which resulted jealousy, and anger from the older boys including his own brother Peter. However on the day when he was forced to to remove his monitor, he gets attacked by a group of jealous, and mischievous boys. “Stilson began pushing Ender with one hand; someone behind him pushed him towards Stilson.”(37) As a six year old Ender never liked violence, or hurting people. However as Stilson continued taunting, and humiliating Ender; Ender snapped and fought back. “Ender kicked out high,

He displays this quality again later in the book too. When Ender is tested through a random computer generated simulation test, he gets upset after none of his solutions are working and turns to violence. This has a deep psychological effect on Ender because Peter is explicitly shown to be who he hates, so for him to become Peter is to become everything he’s avoided trying to become. The struggle between identities is troubling to say the least, and truly defines his character. Luckily, this feeling of becoming peter is

Ever since Ender beat up Stilson he had viewed himself as “just like” Peter. Peter is mischievous and an awful person, he hurts people and it doesn't get to him. I think Ender may hurt people, but he is not just like Peter.

The point of the book Ender’s Game is to send highly intelligent children to fight for the military, and ultimately save the Earth from another alien invasion. These children are different from regular Earth children. They are physically the same, but they are gifted and more mature than children of the same age. The main character of this book is Ender Wiggin, and he is the third in his family to be selected by the military. Compared to normal children on earth, there is not a huge difference, they are both human and live there lives normally.

The buggers from Orson Scott Cards Enders game and subsequent novels, at first appear to be bug eyed monsters, a science fiction cliché. However as the story develops it becomes apparent that the buggers are much more than just a cliché, they develop as a sentient species, they undergo a transformation from varelse, “the true alien” (speaker 34) into raman “the stranger that we recognise as human but of another species”. (34) As this transformation occurs Ender learns a great deal from the buggers, in this manner card illustrates that there is much one can learn from the transformation of varelse to raman.

This novel is about a brilliant military strategist, Ender Wiggin, whose story takes place in the future where there is a constant threat of an invasion from aliens who have been given the slanderous nickname, Bugger. Ender’s childhood is not an easy one considering he gets teased at school for being a “third” only to come home to an abusive brother who is always harassing Ender and his sister Valentine and he has the weight of the world on his shoulders because they believe that he is the last hope for mankind to fight off the Buggers. After many years of monitoring Ender the International Fleet decides they want to recruit Ender into Battle