Ender's Game is a novel written in 1977, earning its author Orton Scott Card, earning a Campbell Award in 1978, a Nebula Award in 1985 and Hugo Award in 1986. Ender's Game is a novel of science fiction, where the reader feels he is in a game with the story protagonist Ender, and the other characters, enjoying and living every moment.
The book talks about the story of a child who was admitted at recruitment academy with the purpose of becoming the leading man who can save the planet from a third upcoming alien invasion. Although it is a fictional and futuristic story, we can find things that happen in real life, such as leadership. Leadership is very important in a company (currently studying business administration), because it is the skill
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The Ender's Game, the Earth is threatened by an alien race, there is no type of communication between both species and confrontation is inevitable. To beat the aliens a military genius is needed and people from the Earth are making a great effort to find that person, and prepare him for that important moment.
Ender Wiggin is a six years old kid, the third in the family where the limit is to have only two children. He is chosen to be trained in a space station, after is older sister Valentine (weak character) and his brother Peter (violent, authoritarian and almost psychopathic), they were declared fit to lead. Ender is the younger brother, but he has all the desirable characteristics required of every human being. He is trained together with other young people who are distributed in various groups competing with each other, in a place where there is no gravity; they use rifles that paralyze their armor. Ender rises rapidly in the hierarchy at the space station, becoming a born leader. The ultimate
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The leader is made with experience and knowledge.
Another leadership that is handled in the academy from Peter, Ender's brother, who was able to trace its own path to try to perform his influence in the world of the adults. While Ender was chosen and positioned as a leader, Peter demonstrated his ability to become a natural leader.
In the book also it is noticeable the fact that a leader finds deficiencies and make solutions to these deficiencies. Ender finds problems in his team and then try to create alternatives to help the team win the battle. He detects problems by observing that the formations are repetitive and easy to identify and seeking autonomy within the group and that soldiers are able to operate freely, without contradicting the higher command. He also asks the group how to solve problems, incorporating them into decision-making, making his team members to feel
In the story Ender’s Game there is a boy named Ender Wiggin, he is a very smart child who is accepted into battle school. Where Ender is from they are not allowed to have more than two kids. Ender’s parents signed a contract saying they can have a third child, so Ender basically belongs to the government. Then Ender has to go to battle to fight the buggers. Once he defeated all the buggers he was know as a hero. In the book, Ender’s Game, there are many similarities and differences.
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.
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
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.
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
Ender goes through many hard things, including bullying, being overworked, sleep-deprived, and trying to not be like his brother Peter. While Ender is at school in space, Peter and Valentine try to gain trust of the people on Earth. Ender gets promoted to be the commander of the entire fleet. And with the help of his friends, and
Ender was first just a part of the team under the suppressing leadership of Bonzo. Ender was not allowed to shoot anyone and just floated around aimlessly. Until, that is, he was finally traded and was able to actually fight in the battles and prove his worth. He was soon promoted to toon leadership and quickly after that became the youngest team
Almost everyone will be manipulated throughout their life, it might of already happened, and the time might of not come yet. In the book Ender's Game, Ender is the protagonist who is very intelligent and successful just at the age of six. Ender is considered an outcast because he is a third kid where in a fictional universe it is embarrassing to have three children. Ender is manipulated for being a third. Enders characterization reveals the theme that manipulation leads to destruction.
The struggle for identity within Ender’s Game was a common theme throughout the book. Ender’s Game is a book about a boy named Ender who was recruited into the battle school in hopes of unlocking his true potential so he could command the IF as he was humanity’s last hope. His main goal would be beating the buggers who are an alien species who launched two invasions on Earth and Ender was told that a third one would eventually come. Characters such as Ender are pushed to their limits while others hide behind a false identity in hopes of making a change. These characters change as the book progresses on and several instances show the reader the changes that are happening.
Ender’s game by Orson Scott Card is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future and involves a kid named Ender, the protagonist of the story. He is sent to battle school to defeat the buggers (the enemies) with many other kids who are put through lots of challenges. The government has picked Ender who is 6 years old and is a third child, his older siblings were not selected by the government because his sister, Valentine, is too kind and compassionate while his older brother,Peter, is ruthless and hot-tempered. Ender is both a monster and a hero because he’s half Peter and half Valentine.
THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa.
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
Orison Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel about a young boy who is enlisted and trained to be a military leader during a fight for humanity against alien buggers. Ender Wiggin was bred, in the expectations of him being the ultimate military commander, to be a strategist by the government. Ender developed many leadership techniques throughout his time at Battle School. These techniques made him an unbeatable leader in the mock battles the children played in school, and they can be helpful leadership lessons for personal growth and management. Ender becomes an astounding leader throughout his time at Battle School.
“You won’t fail, Ender. Not this early in the course. You’ve had some tight ones, but you’ve always won. You don’t know what your limits are yet, but if you’ve reached them already you’re a good deal feebler than I thought.” (Card 286). Ender’s Game is a dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card that follows the training and thoughts of the protagonist, Ender, ultimately ending with the destruction of an alien race, the buggers. Ender’s militaristic and desperate society forces him to unwillingly commit genocide to an extent where Ender’s withering and empathetic mind begins to question the consequences of his actions.
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.