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.

2 major and reoccurring themes throughout Ender’s Game is manipulation and deception. Much of this novel is about how adults manipulate Ender into fulfilling their needs. They trick him, lie to him, and tell him just enough so that he can defeat the buggers. Ender pretty much sums this up when he says, “I've spent my life as someone's pawn" (Pg. 97). On one hand, it seems wrong to lie to and cheat a kid. On the other hand, the adults manipulate him to ensure the survival of the human race. Besides the manipulative relationship between the adults and Ender, there are a number of other relationships full of manipulation: Peter manipulates Valentine, Peter and Valentine manipulate the world, and

Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict will help him be a better leader and win games. Finally, his experience with Shen and Bernard teaches Ender that having humor will easily allow him to make friends. Overall, Ender’s experience in Battle School teaches him many things about

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

Ender did not have a good childhood. At the age of six he was changed from a little boy into a soldier in a six year old’s body. He was worked to the breaking point and even had a mental breakdown. Ender was take by th I.F. so that he could be trained to save the world, but he didn’t know that this involved, blocking all forms of contact with his family and being pushed to be perfect at everything until he had a mental break down. Somehow he managed to win the war, but as a result he became a young man with no friends and no life. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, demonstrates the effects of taking away children's rights by working them too hard, forcing them to solve every problem themselves, and are forced into armed combat against each other.

Childhood innocence contains curiosity, imagination and a frail mind that has yet to experience the real world. A young boy, Ender Wiggin, goes through many things a child his age normally wouldn’t experience. As he grows up in Battle and Command School, his humanity slowly strips away due to being isolated and pressured to be the commander that the International Fleet needs. Though everyone benefit from the end result, things they did to win the war should not be excused.

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.

Undermined by dread of another extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity turns to the youngsters to get ready for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the motion picture based – very loosely - on that novel. So how true to the book were these producers? Translating a 368 page military science fiction novel from 30 years back into a 2 hour film regardless of how well approached will have a few aspects of it hit the fan. With the principle force of the story being fixated on Ender's inward voice and several enormous subplots, a few components are sure to be not true to the book whatsoever.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel set in the distant future about Ender Wiggin, a boy sent by government leaders to save the world from an alien race. Ender’s older sister, Valentine, goes through a drastic character change throughout the novel due to the brother she loved leaving her with their abusive brother Peter. Since Valentine had always stuck up for Ender, she didn’t know how to stick up for herself, leading to her dramatic transition. Throughout this novel, Valentine goes from caring to hardhearted, a change which affects her greatly since her entire character is based off her kind, nurturing personality. Peter and Ender are constantly quarrelling over how Ender kept his monitor on for so long, this annoys Valentine and her natural instinct is to protect Ender.

Have you ever read a book, but eventually felt so interested you almost felt like you knew the characters. The book Ender's Game was revealed to the public within the year 1985. It was written by Orson Scott Card. Ender's game is about a young boy who comes from a well known family sent to train in for a war that could dominate the human world. Fearlessness is to not show sign of fear in other words it is the mastery of fear. An example of fearlessness could be bold, courageous, and intrepid along with many more. Ender Wiggins demonstrates fearlessness in numerous occasions through the story. During the story he takes chances in becoming a better team leader. He does this by over achieving and pushing his team to brighter and complicated challenges.

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

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a six year old boy on Earth in the future and he is very different from other people. He is able to make calculations, predictions, and inferences, extremely fast. He is bullied at school and at home by his brother. One day, a man from the International Fleet comes to Ender’s house to invite him to Battle School, and he accepts the invitation. At Battle School, Ender faces many challenges.

Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel written by the author Orson Scott Card in a third person point of view (author's perspective), which was published on January 15th 1985. Scheduled in Earth’s future, the novel displays an dismayed and fragile human race, after two devastating conflicts with the “buggers” or the formics, an intelligent alien species. In anticipation of a third invasion, the I.F., the international fleet, chose children based on a set of skills they possess at a young age. The I.F does this by installing monitors when children are born so they can see the perspectives of the children that are going to be the strongest. The novel’s protagonist Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is chosen as one of these very few children, to be trained,

The culture that creates the battle school and the need to be defended by the IF is one that knows only the “Death and suffering and terror” (25) the buggers can cause. The people of earth feel this way so deeply because to them the buggers are varelse, and as such the human populous is powerless to feel any other way.

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.