Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Essay

     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.

Did you ever wish you were considered the most important person in the world? In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender, a six year old boy, who is chosen to save the world. Ender has to overcome many obstacles to become this great leader. The obstacles include being small, weak, and a third. Ender eventually overcomes these obstacles, however as a result Ender becomes a ruthless killer. Ender’s computer game shows how he is unknowingly interacting with the buggers, while the novel itself “Ender's Game” symbolizes how Ender decides who lives and who dies.

Genocide is a term used lightly by tons of people; generally only people who have experienced it are affected by it. This causes many people to turn their backs on mass murders and only have concern for people they know or can relate to. In Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card illustrates one’s journey to speak for the victims of genocide in order to educate others on the implications of this crime. In the article, “The Man Who Coined ‘Genocide’ Spent His Life Trying To Stop It,” by the NPR Staff, the motivation behind the dedication of an individual is shown through helping the victims of genocide. In both texts the authors reveal that the disregard for something such as genocide can inspire certain individuals to take a stand and be even more inspired

“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive”

This goes back to the concept of 'levels' throughout the endurance of being enrolled in the Battle School. This is proved on page 190. On page 190, the author tells the reader that Ender and his army had fought 7 battles in 7 days. This means that everyday the school is testing him against different armies, and using different tactics in order to see if Ender truly doe shave a breaking point. This is also proved by the fact that Ender's army has to take on 2 armies at once, in one battle.

I know you can't believe that these young boys are out of school to be in a battle? Be careful who you mess with because they can attack you right back the theme of Ender's Game is internal struggles are not always apparent therefore it's important not to judge one another because it can be hurtful, one may Outcast others and one may be proven wrong. Throughout Ender's Game, Ender is getting judged and it can be very hurtful and hard for him for example as can be found in the text it says that quote quote well no one wants a third anymore you can expect them to be glad. (card 22). This shows and draws attention to children because families are judged based on how many kids they have and how they act anybody can judge you or your child.

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.

Ender departs for Battle School, in part, to make his family’s life easier, but he has no clue yet that his road ahead is filled with loneness and separation. When Ender is at the shuttle, Colonel Graff purposely tells all the Launchies that Ender is the genius of the group and that no one can surpass him, making everyone on the launch dislike him. “This wasn’t the way the show was supposed to go. Graff was supposed to pick on him, not set him up as the best. They were supposed to be against each other at first, so they could become friends later” (32). This also shows that Colonel Graff is forcing him to only depend on himself. What Ender also doesn’t know is that his enforced segregation is becoming a tool in the hands of the officers. They obviously determine that the loss of companionship will leave him stronger. However, too much isolation will lead to the experiment’s

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.

Ender short signs of leadership even though he got smacked by the leader of the green snakes. Ender then unfairly gets to become the leader of a group that was cruse to never win a battle. It is called the Dragon army and the members that he gets are new (launches) at the school and we get six were veterans. Ender had to trained his soldiers to think for themselves, to really think outside of the box, and once his to come up with ideas they can share them to the commander. With the strategy they could win constantly in the battles because, they get to have more brain

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

The buggers from Orson Scott Cards Enders game and subsequent novels, at first appear to be bug eyed monsters, a science fiction cliché. However as the story develops it becomes apparent that the buggers are much more than just a cliché, they develop as a sentient species, they undergo a transformation from varelse, “the true alien” (speaker 34) into raman “the stranger that we recognise as human but of another species”. (34) As this transformation occurs Ender learns a great deal from the buggers, in this manner card illustrates that there is much one can learn from the transformation of varelse to raman.

However, the main meaning of Ender’s Game is that one’s individual needs must be put below the good of humanity. Since the beginning of the novel, Ender has to give up his childhood and being with his beloved sister, Valentine, in order to go to Battle School to help the war effort in any way. At Battle School, Graff makes sure the other students isolate him to make sure he reaches his full potential there which forfeits any chance Ender has in making friends. However, Ender finds a way to make friends, and just as he does, he is promoted to an army because the human race is depending on him being prepared to fight the buggers. Ender accepts that he might not be happy, but he must be his best to fight the buggers. Before Command School when Ender spends a lot of time at the lake, he finally feels happy after the hardships and horrors of Battle School, yet when Graff asks him if he wants to go on to Battle School, Ender agrees. If he had not made these sacrifices, the humans might not have defeated the buggers, and there would have been different

It was published as a short story in 1977 but was later published as a book on January 15, 1985. The audience for this book is adults, though never intended, the book as become a favorite amongst young adults/students.

One theme of Ender’s Game is the importance of youth. The youth of the children recruited for battle school is ultimately stolen from them by the leaders in exchange for saving the entire human race, justifying the loss in their eyes. However, childhood is important to our development, and that is a major focus in Ender’s Game when we see how Ender becomes ultimately depressed through his time at battle school and after. Another common theme that Card places an emphasis on in the novel is the effects of isolation. Although Ender is usually surrounded by others at battle school, he is isolated by Graff from the beginning, setting him apart from the rest and allowing him to become hardened by the isolation, making him into the warrior they want him to be. Graff even explains to Valentine why Ender has been isolated, claiming that “’isolation is – the optimum environment for creativity’” (Card 149). This tells us that Ender is being manipulated by Graff who put him in isolation for his motives and his purposes, even with Ender’s sanity at