Essay about Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

The book begins with Ender gets his monitor out and commander Graff tells him he needs to go to battle school because he was the smartest kid. In the shuttle going to battle school, he broke Bernard’s arm and got bullied by the bigger kids. Ender started to command his own army after standing up to the bullies and then graduated and moved to command school. He stays on earth for a while to get ready to travel to Eros and then he was isolated from everyone and then he got to fight in the war against the Buggers. They won and Ender’s team thought it was a game not

     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 by Orson Scott Card is a science fiction novel that takes place in the future and involves a kid named Ender, the protagonist of the story. He is sent to battle school to defeat the buggers (the enemies) with many other kids who are put through lots of challenges. The government has picked Ender who is 6 years old and is a third child, his older siblings were not selected by the government because his sister, Valentine, is too kind and compassionate while his older brother,Peter, is ruthless and hot-tempered. Ender is both a monster and a hero because he’s half Peter and half Valentine.

In the following quote, Ender is taking a shower when Bonzo and six of his friends walked in and attempt to beat him up. Instead Ender insults Bonzo’s honor by calling him weak to bring six friends to a fight. By doing this Ender was able to fight Bonzo one on one. “All Ender could see, though, was the way Bonzo looked as Ender kicked upward into his groin. The empty, dead look in his eyes. He was already finished then. Already unconscious. His eyes were open, but he wasn’t thinking or moving anymore, just that dead, stupid look on his face, that terrible look” (212). By fighting smartly Ender won the fight with no injuries and ended up stopping the hatred against him. Later Ender heard Bonzo is to be iced, but in fact Bonzo was killed by Ender during the

“Hey third, we’re talkin to you, Third, hey bugger lover, we’re talkin to you.” (Card. 6). In the beginning Stilson (a bully) comes up to Ender with a group of guys. They surround him and start to bully him. At first Ender takes it, then Stilson swings at him, and we see Ender break out of his shell. Ender not only beats him, but we find out he killed him. This is where we see Ender realize what he is capable of. After the fight, we see Ender go back to his quiet self. “Again a blow to the head. Go away Ender thought.I didn’t do anything to you.” (Card. 32). Another group of boys start

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

Many people look up to Ender. He's sort of like the hero of the lonely kids who may not fit in. When he

Ender Wiggin was a timid boy who wanted to have his brother and parents to love him. Prior to joining the Battle School, Ender did not have the belligerence that he would soon possess. He did not want to be like Peter, so

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

After his fight with Stilson Ender realizes what he has done and thinks he is “just like Peter” (8). Peter is everything Ender does not want to be. Everything Peter does goes strictly against Enders morals and so when Ender finds that he has done something like Peter would he becomes ashamed. Enders greatest wish is to not be like Peter and he struggles with this for years. After Ender has won the third invasion and he takes to exploring the bugger world they built their colony on he finds a “silken cocoon” of a bugger queen, Ender knows that if he allowed the queen to live at that time other humans would kill it and so he decides that he’ll “go from world to world until” he finds a place “where you can come awake in safety” (320-321). Ender chooses to do what he believes is right. Ender finally takes a chance to learn from his past mistakes and has accepted that there are parts of him that might be like Peter in ways and because of this is finally able to make his choice. This decision gives Ender some closure in a way, for years he had been doing things that do not go with his morals when he was given control and he finally had a chance to do what he thought was right.

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 book “Ender's Game By: Orson Scott Card” is about an incoming alien invasion. The main character in this book is Ender, Ender is a genius. He is not just any genius he is a genius that could save planet Earth. Ender spends his childhood year preparing for battle school. Battle school is where you are trained to fight against these aliens. Not everyone makes it to battle school but Ender shows “Graff”, Ender's commander that he is fully capable with a very fast and smart mind. Before Ender makes it to battle school he finds himself being bullied in many ways for his brilliant ways. Multiple boys pick on Ender on a daily basis so one day Ender decides to fight back and ends up injuring one of the boys very badly. Ender is then told to get

Ender grew up in a harsh and belligerent society, run by a secretive and overly patriotic government. Because of Ender’s personality, he began to empathize with his own enemies, but still fought them, albeit somewhat reluctantly. Due to the conflicting emotions of empathy and hostility, Ender’s mind began to wither with the thought of the damage he had done to another race. Ender’s militaristic and desperate society forces him to unwillingly commit genocide to an extent where Ender’s withering and empathetic mind begins to question the consequences of his

This novel is about a brilliant military strategist, Ender Wiggin, whose story takes place in the future where there is a constant threat of an invasion from aliens who have been given the slanderous nickname, Bugger. Ender’s childhood is not an easy one considering he gets teased at school for being a “third” only to come home to an abusive brother who is always harassing Ender and his sister Valentine and he has the weight of the world on his shoulders because they believe that he is the last hope for mankind to fight off the Buggers. After many years of monitoring Ender the International Fleet decides they want to recruit Ender into Battle