Ender's Game Isolation Quotes

Ender is using his old experiences to teach his army, which shows him intelligent. When he was practicing alone or sometimes with Petra, he learned many moves and tricks, and now when he is a commander he can use those experiences to teach his army how to play better. Ender is being smart. He is been learning from other people and when he has his army he can use those tricks, so they can be better soldiers. He is making his army strong enough, and that shows that Ender is being smart. However, Ender never knows why he has been isolated and manipulated by Graff. For example, Ender thought that if you are a leader/commander you should isolate or manipulate only one person in your army, just because they are smart. One day Ender was talking to Bean and said, “Graff had isolated me to make me struggle, to make me prove, not that I was competent, but that I am for better than everyone else. That’s what I am doing to you, Bean. I am hurting you to make you a batter soldier in every way.” (167). Ender thought that what all commanders do. They always push one soldier, so they can make him/her a good commander in future. As he is doing to Bean. Ender never knows why Graff had isolated and manipulated him. These are some reasons that makes Ender a blended character in the novel Ender’s

The main difference between Ender and Bean is that while Ender is popular with the other children at Battle School, Bean is not. With this in mind, the IF is uncertain whether or not people would follow Bean. Plus, Bean was constantly compared to Ender throughout his enrollment at Battle School. For example, when Bean asked to play the computer game he was told this by an older kid, “Well Bugger that…Who do you think you are, Ender Wiggin?” (63) On a different note, while Ender played the mind game on the provided desks, Bean had already realized that the teachers used the mind game to understand how and what the students thought about. Throughout the entire book, Ender’s Shadow, Bean never allows the person with power to see into his mind.

In the book, Bean is introduced as being almost a replica of Ender Wiggin himself; he portrays the same qualities relating to intelligence and courageousness. Beans age puts him at a slight disadvantage though; he is smaller than the other soldiers,

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.

Bean and Ender have many similarities that set them apart from their peers in times of peril. Their intelligence made them the most promising weapon in the war against the buggers, rating highest among the smartest children in the world. This is surprising on account of the dissimilarities of their lifestyles before they went to battle school. However, before and during battle school Bean and Ender had to cope with being small. Ender and Bean were both prodigies in their time, but ironically they had completely different personalities. The similarities Bean and Ender shared took them to the top, yet their differences gave them the skills that helped them defeat the buggers and

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

First off let’s start with the fact that Ender met Bean way too early in the movie, like in the very beginning. In the book Ender met Bean towards the End when Dragon Army had just surfaced again, in the movie, Ender and Bean met in the very beginning when they were on the launch. Ender also wasn’t as rude to Bean in the movie as he was in the book.

The novel Ender's Game expresses that Ender being isolated in multiple situations is the cause the of his lost childhood. Ender's isolation is caused by the characters in the Battle School and the removal of the monitor. All of these situations prevent him from getting close to others. Hyrum Graff indicates that he will isolate Ender before he arrives at Battle School. He does that by telling the launch group Ender is the only excellent mind there, Graff does that to make Ender stand out from the others and to form him into the best

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

Ender departs for Battle School, in part, to make his family’s life easier, but he has no clue yet that his road ahead is filled with loneness and separation. When Ender is at the shuttle, Colonel Graff purposely tells all the Launchies that Ender is the genius of the group and that no one can surpass him, making everyone on the launch dislike him. “This wasn’t the way the show was supposed to go. Graff was supposed to pick on him, not set him up as the best. They were supposed to be against each other at first, so they could become friends later” (32). This also shows that Colonel Graff is forcing him to only depend on himself. What Ender also doesn’t know is that his enforced segregation is becoming a tool in the hands of the officers. They obviously determine that the loss of companionship will leave him stronger. However, too much isolation will lead to the experiment’s

He believes Ender is naive compared to him. This quote from the book talks about how even the teachers are manipulators and liars, Ender realizes this and shuts himself out to everyone but his closest friends and Valentine. Finally, Ender

(28). Ender illustrates that he feels as if he doesn't belong with the other boys. However, learning to cope with his isolation makes Ender more capable of creativity and fierceness. Secondly, after some time Ender befriends a young boy from his launch group, named Alai. Almost instantaneously, Ender and Alai develop a very profound connection with one another.

All that Ender does in the book shows that he cares about others, no matter what. Ender is cursed but blessed at the same time. What I mean by this is that when he fights all of the fights in the book from Stilson to Bernard to the Buggers, he beats them all senselessly to ensure that there are no future conflicts between them all. It says “Ender kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs. Stilson groaned and rolled away from him. Ender walked around him and kicked him again, in the crotch.”(6). As you can see, he beats up Stilson extremely bad, but then feels sorry for it. After the fight with Stilson, it claims that “Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came.”(6). Second, Ender is a dynamic character with different levels of characteristics that describe him in different situations. When he is fighting the giant in chapter 10 of Ender’s Game, “he burrowed into the eye, climbed right in, burrowed in and in”(51). He found a way to beat the giant without losing the game to the cheap programmers. So, this shows that Ender is a witty hero. Lastly, Ender is a very smart character. He very early figures out the adults at camp are trying to manipulate the kids to fight and destroy. Ender also figures out how to “counter” bullies that were trying to hurt him all the time. Not only can he counter-attack, but he can now take that skill and use it

So far what I have read is Ender Wiggins was being bullyed by this kid named Stillson he then got tired of it so he beat Stillson and kept kicking him even when he was down in order to will all future battles. Colonial Graff then arrives at his house to ask him to come to battle school because he thinks he can be the best. Ender agrees, he then travels to battle school. He meets this kid named Alai who is a very nice kid they become friends. Ender does a whole bunch of training and he does night training with his friend Alai and some other kids. He is then reported to join salamander army which is led by Bonzo Madrid. He then meets Bonzo, Bonzo tell him he is going to be traded immediately. Ender meets this girl named Petra who offers to show

“He kept sitting out on the army practice sessions, and kept working hard on his own, with Petra in the mornings and his friends at night.” (Card, page 92) Ender is determined to learn as much as he can and become a good soldier. He doesn’t care what people think of him when he practices with his former Launch group. He wants to become a soldier that someone would actually use instead of sitting out on practices and games. Although Ender went into Salamander army knowing nothing, he took initiative to acquire skills to be a good soldier. Ender also improves by studying Salamander army while they practice. “If he couldn’t drill as a soldier, he could study Bonzo as a tactician.” (Card, page 84) When Ender goes to Rat army, he can use this to his advantage to defeat Bonzo’s army. He can also get better by watching the way they fight in order to obtain the techniques he needs in battle. Ender proves Bonzo wrong that he can be a good soldier when he turned a loss into draw. “Before anyone knew what was happening, he froze three of the soldiers who were about to press their helmes against the lighted corners of the door. Then some of the others spotted him and fired—but at first they only hit his already-frozen legs. It gave him time to get the last two men at the gate.” (Card, page 94) Ender used some of the things he learned, for example, using his legs as a shield, to save his