Ender's Game Theme

     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’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.

Ender's Game is author Orson Scott Card's best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary, the plot of the novel is a story about a young child, Ender Wiggin, taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the

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.

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.

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.

Throughout the novel, Ender is situated to play various games both at home, and at the Battle School. First he was introduced to “Buggers and Astronauts,” by Peter who forced him to play the bugger, while Peter himself took the role of the Astronaut. Though this game would be mistaken as simply a child’s game, it represents more than that. It shows the inferiority between the brothers, and also the negative connotation Card places on the role of bugger. Card explains through Ender that every time he played bugger in “Buggers and Astronauts,” it always meant that he had to lose. Ender, having to play along as the bugger, also welcomed Peter’s constant bullying. As opposed to life at home, life at Battle School provided more freedom for Ender.

Going Beyond Basic Concepts When reading a reader wants to feel engaged and question themselves, as well as their beliefs. In order to create this reaction towards a reader, the author has to address major themes while making sure they do not stray too far away from the whole concept of the novel. If the author has the ability to carry this idea out into their own novels, then the novel is that much closer to becoming a great work of science fiction. In Ender’s Game by Orson Card, the author is an example of someone who demonstrated and carried out this concept effectively. Ender’s Game, is a novel went beyond the basic ideas of science fiction and addressed issues in the novel that are greater than these ideas.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the most celebrated books in the twenty-first century. It is also one of the few books to receive the Hugo and the Nebula award. Ender’s Game is about a young mastermind named Ender, who has been given the responsibilty to command the IF fleet to end the war with the formic. Throughout the book many of the kids have been put under extreme amounts of pressure. The adults have stated many times that they could not bear this pressure. If the adult who is bestowing pressure, can not bear it him self, what is the effect on the child. A lot of this abuse and a pressure is hidden or justified by Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game with closer examination is a story of the abuse, brainwashing, and premature development in the Battle School.This essay will examine the effect of taking children away from their homes at such a young age, and methods used in the Battle School that better prepare the children for their future.

(Hayward). The words explain to the readers, that sometimes human dose not have other choice but fights. This is the reason that why warfare is important theme in the whole story. In another hand, author has his hidden attitude of warfare. The title of the book ‘Ender’s Game’ hinted

Ender’s Game is about a boy who, along with other children, goes to Battle School in space as preparation for going to war with an alien race, known as the Buggers, that has threatened mankind. It is set in the future. Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, written by Orson Scott Card, were both awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. The series continues with Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, "First Meetings in the Enderverse", Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight, A War of Gifts, and Ender in Exile. Ender in Exile takes place after Ender's Game and before Speaker for the Dead. Card also plans to write Shadows Alive, which connects the "Shadow" series and "Speaker" series.

The book “Ender's Game By: Orson Scott Card” is about an incoming alien invasion. The main character in this book is Ender, Ender is a genius. He is not just any genius he is a genius that could save planet Earth. Ender spends his childhood year preparing for battle school. Battle school is where you are trained to fight against these aliens. Not everyone makes it to battle school but Ender shows “Graff”, Ender's commander that he is fully capable with a very fast and smart mind. Before Ender makes it to battle school he finds himself being bullied in many ways for his brilliant ways. Multiple boys pick on Ender on a daily basis so one day Ender decides to fight back and ends up injuring one of the boys very badly. Ender is then told to get

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 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.