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Thesis based on graphic organizer: Critically acclaimed novel Ender's Game, has a brilliant combination of layered themes that blur the lines of morality, a suburb plot which produces a wide scope of world within the story, and a robust style that yields clear meanings that are supplemented with harsh truths.

Review of secondary source The popular Science fiction novel Ender's Game has been read and enjoyed by a countless number of people for years. The book is well known for the main character and child genius Ender Wiggin, who experiences vicious internal conflict throughout the story, Ender is also subject to a lot of pressure as he is the only person that can end the war in the story. One fan of Ender's Game is Thomas Wagner who has …show more content…

One of the reasons his article is so effective is the fact that he clearly defines what the story is about with a concise synopsis, Wagner writes: Separated from his family before he is even seven years old (to only one of whom, his sister Valentine, he has a close bond), Ender is sent into space to attend Battle School. There, he and hundreds of other children and adolescents are subjected to grueling training that takes the form of war games, played both in computer simulation (video games, essentially) and in real time combat practice in an enormous zero-G chamber called the Battle Room. Ender is a natural. He excels immediately, and becomes commander of his own platoon ridiculously early. But Colonel Graff, commanding officer of the Battle School, is grooming Ender, pushing him right to the limits of endurance. Graff is playing games too, it seems, with Ender as the pawn. The I.F. is looking for humanity's new savior, just as, years ago, a pilot named Mazer Rackham became humanity's savior by fending off the buggers when all seemed lost …show more content…

Ender is very talented, is rigorously tested, and is manipulated for the greater good of mankind, similar the the way a former hero did in the past (3). Simple summarization is not the only reason that the review is so striking, Wagner goes way beyond what has already been obviously stated within the book, he actually derives meaning from the book as any reader should. Wagner writes, “The battle games are just that, games, but the consequences are real in terms of how they [affect] real lives... This world of children's games is in fact one that deals in the grim realities of life and death” (Wagner 4). The idea that simulated realities could have an adverse ramifications on people individual words is astonishing, Wagner captures this sentiment perfectly, the “games” in the story are no longer child's play, the struggle is authentic

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