Ender's Game Quotes

From the beginning of the book Ender was labelled a third by the elders he looked up to, he lived and grew up to prove to the elders that being a third does not mean anything and that everyone is the same. This goes along with adults and children, they are the same. Ender also proves this theory wrong by the way he acts. He is a very intelligent boy for the age of six and becomes even more intelligent when he is sent to battle school. He shows the battle toon leaders that although he is younger he can think and do the same as they can. Ender eventually becomes a battle toon leader at a very young age and once again proves that children have the ability to make good decisions without any adult’s help, by succeeding in all of the battles he fights. “Seven battles since your first battle, Ender”, said Graff. Ender did not reply. “And you’ve won seven battles, once a day.” (Card-228). Ender is a very dependent person and throughout the whole book he did not need much help from any adults. By the end of the book Ender proved that children can make fully intelligent decisions by themselves, without the help from adults, before they become adults

Ender was the third child. He has Peter’s toughness and Valentine’s smarts and gentleness. As far as we’ve gotten in the book we see how Ender does not mean or want to hurt anyone, but he ends up killing Stilson and Bonzo. Both Ender and Peter want some of the same things such as ruling the world. Ender does think he is the same as Peter.

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

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 is different from the other boys because he wasn’t laughing and joking around like they were. Ender couldn’t recall any jokes, and theirs didn’t seem funny to him. “He was afraid, and fear made him serious.” (Card, page 28) Ender seems like the outsider of the group. He is acute and reserved, while the other boys are boisterous and rowdy.

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

Valentine is taken to motivate Ender because Ender does not want to “be used” by the International Fleet no longer (Card 148). Valentine warns Ender that “If [he tries] and lose[s] then it isn’t [his] fault. But if [he does not] try and [the humans] lose, then it’s all [his] fault” (Card 152). Ender discovers here that humanity was relying on him. If he chose not to fight they would have no chance, but if he did try they would be using their best man for the job. Furthermore, Ender no longer would feel guilty about having to fight the buggers “Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings” (Card 170). He looked at the truth in the situation. Though the buggers did not realize what they were doing, they were still committing a horrible act. This was Ender’s final change as a character. He would use his skill for the sake of humanity without feeling bad about

Ender was a very strong individual and did not conform, he fought through the hard times even when everyone else doubted him. It is unnecessary to push people over their limit for one’s own desire or wellbeing. Sometimes Ender was pushed too hard by the teachers, and when he finally hit his limit he stopped trying, because he was tired of conforming. Ender thought, “I don’t care anymore... You can keep your game.

six year old boy who is known to be a "third" throughout the story mainly because Ender and his family live in a society where couples are only aloud to have two children unless the family is from an occupying nation . To have a third like Ender is a really rare thing it means that the government allowed Enders mother and father to the third child. The government allowed themcto have a "third" mainly because they wanted a child who was stronger then valentine and kinder than peter. At the beginning of the story Ender was having a monitor removed . This device allowed the authorities to see the world as ender did but having this monitor had its pros because it allowed the authorities to watch over him

“The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful” ( "Brandon Stanton Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.)

(pg 221-222). Ender got a great amount of trials pushed against him at once he could not keep up mentally and just cracked. Earlier in the book Ender gets attacked by one of his classmates on Earth and he eventually gives in to fight back because of peer pressure and the fear of what might happen to him in the future and be apart of his everyday life if he does nothing about it. Eventually at Command School they put him into intense “practising” (he barely ever gets enough sleep) to fight the buggers. He undergoes a test and beats them, they reveal that he actually killed their entire race which is exactly the opposite of what Ender wanted to do.

When Ender is at the battle school, it is evident that the training and harsh atmosphere is taking a toll on him, “Since becoming commander, he never slept more than five hours a night…Sometimes he worked at his desk…straining his eyes to use the dim display. Usually, though, he stared at the invisible ceiling and thought” (Card 174). Later, he is not even able to get a joke, “therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke.’ Ender didn’t see what was funny about it” (Card 273). When Ender discovered he was tricked into destroying the entirety of the buggers, he became depressed thinking about the genocide that he had just committed, “Real. Not a game. Ender’s mid was too tired to cope with it all. They weren’t just points of light in the air, they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And a real world he had blasted to oblivion” (Card 297).

Just as Ender “was afraid, and fear made him serious,” I was as serious as a Greek statue. When I’m nervous, I get extremely quiet and stoic, speaking only when I have to and laughing only when everyone else does. I felt just like Ender, overwhelmed by a new group of kids who were joking and laughing while I felt too nervous to barely crack a smile. And perhaps I felt an immense weight on my shoulders, as I was going to Greece on a full scholarship granted by an anonymous donor on the board of the Farm School, and my brother had done the same trip last year and been a wonderful, happy, and social member of the group. All in all, I had some great expectations to live up to, and with all that weighing on my mind I found it hard to be as jovial and personable as I hoped to be. This is where I feel my connection to Ender: he’ll be a hero, the pride of his family, but only if he lives up to the huge expectations people have of him, and as all the other boys are having fun at the Battle School, Ender has too much else on his mind to think about

"They do love you, Ender. But you have to understand what your life has cost them.”

Ender, the main character of the book, who is six years old in the beginning is having his monitor removed. The monitor allowed the authorities the see the world through ender’s eyes, but this monitor has also made him an outcast. Ender’s older brother, Peter, also had a monitor, but his got taken out a year before Ender. His brother hates him for that reason and decides they will never be friends. After a drugged up Ender returns to class, because the removal is so painful, he is teased by a fellow student, Stilson. Ender’s always being teased about being a “third” child