Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

In Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, the reader is taken into a fascinating futuristic world in which the human race is in danger. Having twice survived alien attack, the human race, fearing a more powerful invasion, develop a program to breed and train a warrior who will lead them to a final victory. The young boy chosen to do just that is six year old Andrew Wiggin also known as Ender. According to the government, Ender exhibits the traits needed to assure victory. At six years old he enters…

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…

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is one of the most celebrated books in the twenty-first century. It is also one of the few books to receive the Hugo and the Nebula award. Ender’s Game is about a young mastermind named Ender, who has been given the responsibilty to command the IF fleet to end the war with the formic. Throughout the book many of the kids have been put under extreme amounts of pressure. The adults have stated many times that they could not bear this pressure. If the adult who is bestowing…

therefore has more effect on our behavior. This is held true for the song Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne and the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Similarities are present throughout both works of art, and the continuous battle of wits and insanity, fought ever so tactfully between both sides. "Manic depression befriends me." It's a lyric in the song that defines Ender's journey through his wrecked childhood. Isolation at Battle School drives Ender to his breaking point, leaving him with…

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…

On the other hand, our environmental surroundings and the experiences we endure may also play a role in making us who we are. There are surely plenty of literary examples tackling this theme, but the one I plan to focus on is the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I think that this novel illustrates that it isn’t as simple as just saying “Nature vs Nurture”. The development of the individual is dependent on both, with varying degrees of dependence based on the person in question. The novel is…

Manipulation Today “Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive” (Card 35). This quote from the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card foreshadows the manipulation and control that the characters experience throughout the story much like one does in real life. The novel is centered on a young, precocious boy named Ender Wiggin. Ender is chosen by the International Fleet to attend battle school where he trains for war against an alien race…

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…

Case Overview In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, we are introduced to Ender’s family and Ender’s early life at school and with his family . We immediately see conflict emerging in both of these settings. Ender has difficulty at school after his monitor is removed and is forced to deal with a bully, the results of this encounter lead to life changing circumstances for himself, his family and ultimately the world. These life changing circumstances will impact his family and take him, and those…

Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is an exceptional novel created by an extremely smart, intuitive, and talented individual. This novel deals with several of societies’ issues and is almost satire, comparable to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Some topics that are prominent in Ender’s Game are compassion, humanity, and the relationship between adults and children. These three elements define the main character, Ender, and influence the way he makes decisions and eventually changes the world. The…