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.

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

They won’t let him play those games with them anymore, calling his win, “beginners luck”. Ender faces many trials in this point of the book. Colonel Graff assigns him to Salamander army and he meets one of his worst enemies, Bonzo. He is the commander of the Salamander army and he hates Ender. Bonzo had to get rid of one of his best commanders in the army to be able to take in Ender, and he is not happy about that.

Ender went out to see what the buggers were like based on what they left behind. He found a sling for the baby buggers which led to the conclusion that they cared for their young. The buggers left behind queen pupa, and Ender was able to contact the buggers through her. Queen pupa says, “We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came again.” (Card 321) After the buggers say this through queen pupa, Ender decides to restart the species, making the war pointless.

And because of Ender’s compassion, he is able to defeat the buggers. He understands them and knows how they feel, so that when he kills them, he feels terrible and wishes that he wasn’t manipulated and that he did not just kill an entire race. Ender also shows his compassionate side when he decides that he will help the buggers. When Ender finds the last pupa egg and telecommunicates with the queen bugger, he replies, “I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come away in safety” (Card 321). He realizes that the buggers did not know that humans were a thinking race during the First Invasion, which was when the buggers attacked the humans. And when they realized their mistake, they hoped that the humans would forgive them. But when the humans do not forgive them and attack during the Third Invasion, which is led by Ender, the buggers know that their race is going to die. And because the buggers know that Ender would listen to them and understand them, they are confident in his willingness to help. So when the queen bugger asks Ender to save their race, he agrees to help find a home for

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

Many years into the future, aliens are attacking planet Earth. The leaders of the world are tasked with finding the one who can save humanity and the person they chose is a six-year-old boy. This is the situation in Ender’s Game, a 1977 science fiction novel in which author, Orson Scott Card, points out multiple problems in today’s society. The two most prominent themes in Ender’s Game is “war as a game” and the “control of information” where isolation is thought of a the key.

I think the theme of ender’s game is him becoming the best commander they have ever had its about him growing up and learning to be responsible and leading his own army at just 7 years old at only 7 but yet still better than any teenage commander he is learning how to be a more well thought out kid and learn discipline and to be a respectful commander the best they have ever had has to be the one they have been waiting for.

Being a regular high school student, I shocked myself because the fact that I actually decided to read a book at home from class without being forced.I could ultimately feel Ender’s emotions upon killing or hurting someone he did not want to hurt but he had to protect himself. Ender Wiggin was an intelligent child that was selected into the IF with the possibility of being the new commander of the third invasion of the buggers. Ender went through vigorous training and battles with other students at IF to earn his rank. He did not have the same path as the other students as the adults of the school wanted a lot out of Ender. I believe that the book was better than the movie because all though the movie could show emotion through a screen I still

Have you ever been in command of an entire space army? Imagine yourself with all the latest technology for war. visualize the people of earth putting all of their hope into you, and no else. In the tale of Ender Wiggin, he was the person you were imagining, Ender was a young boy who was put into command school to tailor the traits of a great soldier. The movie and book showed amazing traits of his character but only one can be better.

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

And I played off of that” (Card 238). He is able to quickly understand his opponent and lead him into any and every possible trap. This shows that because of his knowledge for the opponent, he has never lost a single battle. And the reason for his winning streak is his adept ability to notice minor details. This information would be the key point to his main objective: defeating the buggers. While studying film of the first and second battles with the buggers he doesn’t find much. But he does find one thing that stands out. While watching the film, “…he found useful sequences: ships, like points of light, maneuvering in the dark of space, or, better still, the lights on shipboard plotting screens, showing the whole of a battle” (Card 188). In a couple of scenes, he was able to figure how the buggers used decoys and set up traps. More than anyone, Ender realizes that the first step to manipulating your opponent is knowing how they operate. Once again he has figured out an opponent which could lead him to victory. What he soon realizes, though, is that he was fighting the wrong battles.

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).

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.

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.