Ender's Game Themes

In Ender’s Game Ender was better at the war games than any other student in the battle school. As a result, Ender’s army won every game they played. Then Colonel Graff changed the rules to make it harder for Ender to win by giving the other team an unfair advantage. Doing this caused Ender to have to think more and try to find new situations, but when Graff was assigning three battles a day with more and more levels of unfairness toward Ender, it pretty much shut Ender down and he didn’t care about it anymore. (Card) The F.A.T.D.C states that there are millions of children throughout the world that have their rights revoked, they are either being worked too hard, being abused are sexually exploited or some other kind of harm is being done to these children. Because of this abuse, the children become angry, mean, they harm themselves or even become brain dead. Let children have the rights they

“I am your only escape...Death is your only escape.”(58) This quote came from when Ender was playing the giant’s drink and was how Ender felt whenever he lost, making him go insane. Giant's Drink Game is manipulative because no one can win it. Ender manipulates the circumstances to figure out a way through the poison guessing game. This shows that Ender was desperate just to beat that damn game. He was angered by the fact it outsmarted him, so he found a loophole and defeated the giant and shocked everyone watching him. Ender was the only one who figured out how to beat the giant's drink game and that was an unbeatable game. Though going through manipulation and being lied to, Ender still has the smarts to beat an unbeatable game and fight the adults bothering

My reasoning for this is because Ender was forced to be a dangerous person all out of other people’s jealousy. Next, Ender was manipulated easily, having to face torturous and unfair training, Lastly, in the end of the book, Ender realizes that buggers aren’t as harmful as they seem from Eros. So, in the end the war had been pointless.     Ender’s dangerous attitude had come people’s decisions to be jealous of him. Ender was faced with an altercation where Colonel Graff scolded everyone, but Ender.

When Ender gets to Battle School he is already disliked for being so young and small. Graff calls him out in front of everyone multiple times. The other kids do not like that at all and they pick on Ender for it. He likes to get under Enders skin because he is just pushing him. Ender gets fed up with Graffs games when he finds out he tricked him about the final battle. “Why you gotta be so rude? Don't you know I'm human too” are lyrics from a quirky song about a girl that annoys a boy, like Graff seems to do to Ender. On page 35 Ender says to Graff “You made them hate me.” “So? What will you do about it?” responds Graff. Knowing what he just did annoyed Ender.

Mazer Rackham manipulates Ender by saying beating the Buggers is his final test instead of saying this is the fight against the Buggers. Mazer says,’’ Congratulations, you beat them, and it’s all over” (296). This is manipulation because Mazer used Ender to defeat the Buggers

Ender is constantly thinks about turning out like Peter and he does not want to fall into Peter’s evil footsteps as he is heartless. There is no part of him that desires control, and when he has it, he wishes only to avoid the abuses that he sees others commit. But Ender learns that in life we are sometimes forced to play games that we would rather not play, and that sometimes winning must be second to nothing else. Still, he manages to retain his humanity and his compassion wins out in the end, as he sets out to repay his debt to the buggers. The government plays all sorts of schemes like manipulation to acquire success. The government manipulates Valentine, the students of the battle school and especially Ender (SparkNotes). The narrator says, “He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys.” (Card 121). Most of Ender’s identity problems come from his worry that he’s a bully and a killer, like Peter.

Ender is six when he is taken to the battle school, and once he get there he is contently in simulation battle in the battle room or play games on his desk when he in the barrack. This is like in Carr’s essay where you are on the internet contently skimming article. He is competing in Battle with his team in the battle room at any time of day or night, and on his own desk computer playing a game when he is not fighting battle. . Ender is contently monitored without his knowledge in whatever he does. Ender is contently isolated from making friends with other children at the battle school. Every time he get close to someone on the army he commanded, Ender is transferred to another army where he know nobody. We he start try to make friends he is move again and again. This is done so he will concentrate all his energy on how to get better in each battle simulation that is develop by Colonel Graff and Mazer Reakham for Ender to compete in without Ender knowledge. As the battle get more and more difficult, like when Ender squid has to go up against two squids at the same time, but Ender always fines a way to win by figuring out the pattern in the Battles and using them to his advantage over his opponent. This isolation from

Ender is now in command school. Still in the guidance of Colonel Graff. As we go on through the book and chapter fourteen we find out that many of the groups need teachers and/or commanders. We ultimately find a character that comes back to be the teacher of Ender, Mazer Rackham. Ender starts his final exam. As he went through it, suddenly all the military adults came and congratulated him and he had beat them. He thought it was it was all a game. It turns out it was all real. "This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real." (296)

Ender is the most innocent-looking, sweet little boy ever. But he is more correctly a genius, bad to the bone soldier that could ever be chosen for the program. As for Peter, Ender’s brother, he’s a terrifying monster… until he thinks no one’s watching. One night, after tormenting Ender, he thought the little boy was asleep. “I’m sorry,” He said. “I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.” You really can’t judge anyone in Ender’s Game by what they do, you need to know more because they always turn around and do something completely out of their character. I also learned that your best friends are the one’s you can count on one hand. Ender trusts so few people, and he’s right to. His sister Valentine, his Launchy friends Alai and Shen, and his Salamander Army friend Petra are Ender’s trustworthy friends. Those are only two of many different lessons one can learn from Ender’s

During training, Ender thought he was just playing a game with people in battle. Turns out, it was all real.

Furthermore, Ender is sequestered from his launch group on the fly to Battle School by Colonel Graff setting him up as a higher-ranked and more intelligent individual than the others; accordingly, Ender is debarred from his peers. Graff calling everyone except Ender imprudent and inadequate causes a great disturbance in the recruit members. Some tempered children, like Bernard, gang up against him and torment Ender physically. As a result, everyone starts hating

After outperforming his beginners group, Ender is promoted to an army, in which he is the youngest member. He proves himself superior to this army as well as the following armies he is transferred to. Ender is then given the role of commander along with his own army. He trains this army with diligence and is “...eager for [a] battle” after just a few weeks(Card,175). Ender is ready to take on a challenge after just four weeks, even though it typically takes three months for an army to prepare itself. This is one example that proves how far ahead Ender is than his competition. Ender takes pride in showing others that he can not be beaten. He confides to one of his soldiers that “‘... [he] can’t lose any games’”(Card,198). Ender does not want anybody to believe that he is vulnerable, since he has gone through much trouble to rise above the rest. He keeps up this winning streak for many laborious weeks, made up of nonstop battles and training. After this excessively fatiguing period of time, Ender is both mentally and physically exhausted. He tells his army that he does not “‘...care about their game anymore…’”(Card,221). Ender has long since lost his passion for the game, and has decided that he is done playing on the adults’ terms. At the point in the story when everyone is relying on Ender, he does not have a sufficient motive to fulfill his duty, so he has to to be continuously pushed by his peers, family, and

In the game he is given two glasses filled with a green liquid, one is poisoned and one isn’t. He has to choose out of the two and hope he doesn’t get poisoned. After trying and failing twice he chooses to attack the monster in the game and kills him. His friend asks why he did that and Ender responds with “That’s what they want from us. Follow the rules, you lose. Choose violence, you win.” This is Ender acknowledging the theme of conformity in the film and saying that by him not following the rules, he is slipping through the school leaders fingers and somehow ‘beating them’. But in reality, either way, he is being manipulated. He can either follow the rules and conform, or he can go his own way and turn into a violent machine that they can (and at the end of the movie do) use to win the battle against the aliens.

“When I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, then in that moment, I also love him.” Graff and the I.F. are trying to persuade Ender, and the population of Earth that a third invasion is imminent. Ender is sent to Battle School when he was just a little boy, but he was smart, the I.F. had in him all they ever could ask in a commander. Through years of extensive and grueling training, Ender is ready to go to Command School, but it hasn’t been easy. And the admirals and colonels in charge of Battle School are worried that they wore him out, Ender starts to question his motives. Many questions nag at his mentality, many of whom cannot be answered to him, or else the I.F. would lose a high value commander. So everything is kept secret from Ender. Even his closest friends keep their knowledge enclosed from him, but Ender can’t help but to wonder.

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