Have you ever been in an alien invasion? Since you most likely haven’t, here’s a book that you might want to read to know what it’s like to defeat an alien race. I think this book, Ender’s Game, is about forgiveness. 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. …show more content…
I think it’s about forgiveness because at the end of the book, Ender finds the last bugger queen and she forgives him and the humans for the bugger wars. After the bugger queen forgives Ender, he takes the last queen’s egg. In the book it says, “‘I’ll carry you,’ Ender said, ‘I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and 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 connects to everyday life because people have to forgive each other everyday, if there was no forgiveness in this world, there would be a lot more fighting, death, crime, hatred,
Many believe that actions shape a person's internal identity but is that the case? The book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card raises this question with Ender symbolising good while committing the greatest acts of evil and Peter symbolising evil yet portraying actions of good. Orson Scott Card takes into consideration Ender's actions and Peter's actions to illustrate the theme of “good versus evil” and the duality of human nature. OSC also gets his readers to ponder the importance of not casting judgements without understanding the situation which can cause communication roadblocks.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about a boy named Ender Wiggin. When he is 6 years old he is taken from his home to go train in a place called Battle School to fight aliens, or “buggers”. He learns to command an army and plays games to train for the battle against the buggers. When the game is over, Ender learns it isn’t a game at all and they have won the war against the buggers. Two themes in this books are “Life isn’t always going to be fair”, and “Make the best of what you have.” These two themes are in the book because Ender has to deal with having a horrible army to train and the teachers aren’t fair to Ender at all.
A huge part of the theme of Ender's Game is saying that life is just a game. This is proved by the concept that Ender has to succeed through different 'levels' of life in order to achieve what the battle school has set out for him-killing the buggers. This is proved by the quote,”-Because most boys in this school think the game is important for itself, but it isn't. Its only important, because it helps them find kids who might grow up to be real commanders.” This is the real point of the book in which Ender fully realizes that The Battle School is really just a game. The symbols of this main idea is the armies, friends, enemies, and leaders that Ender comes in contact with in the Battle School. All of the friends, enemies, armies, and leaders that Ender meet are all part of Ender
First, the exposition introduces us to the setting which is a future Earth under attack from aliens called Buggers and also to the protagonist, Ender, a boy who displays both intelligence and a potential for violence. Ender is an ordinary boy who lives with his mother and father who lives in the futuristic world where the earth is under attack from aliens called Buggers. When Ender self-defends himself from bullies, people notice intelligence and violence in him. For this reason, the higher-ups recruit Ender to Battle School where he is trained for the Bugger Wars. This background
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.
In “Ender’s Game” the building blocks of Ender’s home are the deceit of those in his life, the constant feeling of isolation, and most importantly his loss of innocent identity. The first of the foundational stones of Ender’s home is that of lies and deceit from everyone in his life; this is most impactful when
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for” describes that each person has a purpose in society (23). In Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game, a young boy named Ender Wiggin is chosen to fight an alien race called “the buggers” because he has the greatest traits in order to become a successful military commander. Ender Wiggin is an innocent boy, whom everyone seems to have a problem with due to the fact they are jealous of him. He feels this is unfair and soon realizes what he does is beneficial to humanity. Ender Wiggin changes his view of things when he goes to battle school, he learns that every person really is a tool in society.
Ender is at school and life is normal until he gets his monitor taken out. After it is taken out, he is bullied by the class and he begins to think that he is a failure. He gets into a fight, where his strategic fighting abilities and sheer brutality gets him noticed. He ended up killing the boy he was fighting, though he is not aware of it. This part of the book is Ender’s call to adventure.
Ender is now in command school. Still in the guidance of Colonel Graff. As we go on through the book and chapter fourteen we find out that many of the groups need teachers and/or commanders. We ultimately find a character that comes back to be the teacher of Ender, Mazer Rackham. Ender starts his final exam. As he went through it, suddenly all the military adults came and congratulated him and he had beat them. He thought it was it was all a game. It turns out it was all real. "This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real." (296)
Graff tricked Ender into coming to the Battle School in the first place by saying his family didn't love him, although they did. Ender loved his family, for the most part, and they loved him even though he was different, and Ender knew that until Graff told him differently. ‘You won't miss your mother and father, not much, not for long. And they won't miss you long,
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
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
Imagine you were in the bathroom minding your own business and someone comes in and tries to kill you. Ender's Game is about a boy named Ender Wiggin who goes to Battle School and plays the game. Later the commanders find Ender's full potential and tricks him into killing the entire bugger species.
Finally in a third battle, the humans, led by an adolescent boy named Ender, destroy the entire population of Buggers and their home planet. Ender feels remorse over this and comes to learn the Buggers did not wish to harm the humans once aware of their intelligence. He hopes to one day revive their population with a cocooned Bugger he found (Card). In this interaction, there are two species both completely alien to one another.
The story has many settings. The first of which takes place sometime in the future somewhere on Earth where there is a constant threat of a bugger invasion and having a third child is considered bad which made life a lot harder for Ender which was one of many reasons why he left to Battle School. The setting then moves to the spaceship which Battle School is on which doesn’t really need to be on a spaceship unless Orson Scott Card wanted the spaceship to help with the feeling of isolation. As the story progresses the setting moves to the planet Eros which is where he will be fighting the Buggers thinking he is just in a simulation but he is really fighting the Buggers.