Overcoming Obstacles In Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card

     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.

At this point, Ender starts seeing another side to things. Even though Ender realizes and admits to himself that he is being manipulated and tricked, he still continues onward.

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.

“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

Ender does not want to be Peter, who was a cold-hearted killer. Ender was beginning to understand the buggers and find out their reasoning behind the war, but before he could fully understand, the I.F. made him defeat the buggers without even knowing. It also made Ender upset when he found out that he not only just killed one queen, he killed an entire colony and world of queens. Another situation that also upset Ender was when Ender killed Bonzo. Ender didn’t mean to hurt him, but he had to, for self-defense. “’Why should I want to beat anybody?’ Ender pressed his palms against his eyes. ‘I hurt Bonzo really bad today, Bean. I really hurt him… I knocked him out standing up. It was like he was dead, standing there. And I kept hurting him… I just wanted to make sure he never hurt me again’” (222). Although Ender disliked Bonzo, Ender loved him because when he truly understands his opponent to defeat them, he also cared for them. This not only disconcerted him, it made Ender despise the

“I am your only escape...Death is your only escape.”(58) This quote came from when Ender was playing the giant’s drink and was how Ender felt whenever he lost, making him go insane. Giant's Drink Game is manipulative because no one can win it. Ender manipulates the circumstances to figure out a way through the poison guessing game. This shows that Ender was desperate just to beat that damn game. He was angered by the fact it outsmarted him, so he found a loophole and defeated the giant and shocked everyone watching him. Ender was the only one who figured out how to beat the giant's drink game and that was an unbeatable game. Though going through manipulation and being lied to, Ender still has the smarts to beat an unbeatable game and fight the adults bothering

In a world where cooperation is expected among peers and teamwork is all but habit, from an early age children are taught to work effectively with others. Isolation is generally not thought of as beneficial for a person. The author Orson Scott Card, however, is able to state and prove his opposing opinion in his novel Ender’s Game. The book follows Ender Wiggien, a small yet exceptionally bright six-year-old in the future who is monitored from birth, decided to be special, and is taken from his home to join the International Military. In this training program, he learns to fight and win battles amongst his peers in order to prepare for the war against the Formics, an alien species that nearly eradicated the human race

In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin is compassionate, which enables him to connect with people, understand others, and repay his debt to the buggers. Ender is very compassionate since he understands others, even his enemies, like when he gets into fights with other people. For example, when Ender defeats the Giant in the game by scratching his eyes out, he realizes that he is “doing it again…[He’s] hurting other people again, just to save [himself]” (Card 115). The quote shows that Ender does not mean to hurt people like Stilson and Bernard. He just has to deal with them because that is what has to be done. He definitely regrets his actions and wishes that they would just leave him alone so that he would not have to hurt them. This shows

Orson Scott Card weaves an intricate tale of a boy who is born to save the Earth in the novel, Ender’s Game. Ender Wiggin is born a Third in a world where only two children are allowed per family. Ender’s older brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, were not what the government needed to save the world, so Ender was born in hopes that he would be somewhere in the middle of their extremes. (Cherry). Peter is too violent, whereas Valentine has too much empathy. Ender is the right combination for the Battle School’s needs. Although both Ender and Peter have power, only Ender has respect; both boys are instinctive killers, but Peter relishes the act while Ender regrets the act after he

In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender is not only battling aliens but himself. In the beginning of the story he fights a school bully. The book says, "But they let go of him. As soon as they did, Ender kicked high and hard, catching Stilson square in the breastbone. He dropped... I have to win this now, and for all time... So Ender walked to Stilson's supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs." (Card, 7) Ender injured Stilson so badly that it took him weeks to recover. Ender was vicious and more cruel then he needed to be making sure Stilson would never hurt him again. Ender did not want to be a killer but in the situation and many

In the book, Ender is pictured as a mature, young high-minded child. He is sympathetic even to those who threaten him. “I didn’t want to hurt him” (Card 213) he cried. Even though he knew Bonzo Madrid was coming after him, he still did not try to hurt him before hand to increase his chances of winning the fight. He hoped that a talk would lower Bonzo’s hatred for him.

For Ender, extending his existence means a choice choose between victory and sympathy. This unjust election between good and bad stems from his personal longing to be exempt from attacks. With Stilson, Ender forgets his humanity and continues to inflict pain even though “Stilson could not make a sound; he only doubled up and tears streamed out of his eyes” (7). Ender attacks on the helpless to prevent further, possibly fatal, attacks on himself and for the chance to warn others by stating “ You could probably beat me up pretty bad. But just remember what I do to people who try to hut me” (7). Ender demonstrates the same selection of his life over another’s with Bonzo. When given the chance to “walk out of the room and end the battle” (211), Ender refuses because “The only way to end things completely was to hurt

Ender does not play the game like everyone else does. He tries to cerebrate of different, ingenious ways to play. Ender demonstrates his ingenuity when he created a fake profile on the desks. “Ender hadn't cracked the teachers' security system yet, so he couldn't pretend to be a teacher. But he was able to set up a file for a nonexistent student” (p 49). He is clever and ingenious. Ender thought of an action that no other student would have thought of. His conception was so creative and devious that no other student could figure out how he did it. When Ender was playing the mind games on his desk, he was faced with a difficult situation. He could never win when he reached the caliber with the Giant’s drink. It seemed as if every alternative led him to unsuccess. Conclusively, Ender determined that there was another way to vanquish the Giant. “And instead of pushing his face into one of the liquids, he kicked one over, then the other, and dodged the Giant’s huge hands as the Giant shouted, “Cheater, cheater!” He jumped at the Giant’s face” (p.64). Ender thought of a creative tactic that would allow for him to surmount an “impossible” level. Bean isn’t proximately as creative or pristine as Ender. Ender uses his ingenuity, creativity, and originality more than Bean. The International Fleet Battle School is in great need of a Battle Commander who uses their

Imagine you were in the bathroom minding your own business and someone comes in and tries to kill you. Ender's Game is about a boy named Ender Wiggin who goes to Battle School and plays the game. Later the commanders find Ender's full potential and tricks him into killing the entire bugger species.

In the realm of speculative fiction, no author has had as great an impact on my worldview as Orson Scott Card. The Nebula and Hugo award winning Ender’s Game might be the best science-fiction novel I have ever read. The saga’s central character, Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, is the pith of child prodigies, for though his IQ is through the roof, his EQ, or emotional intelligence, is both immeasurable and unmatched. This was duly noted by his second-in-command, Bean, who outperformed Ender in every test the Battle School had to offer. For all of his intelligence though, Bean could never understand why everyone loved Ender so much. Indeed, even the reader falls in love with the infallibility of mankind’s greatest hero, indestructible to all but himself. Nevertheless, in spite of all the admirable characteristics of Andrew Wiggin, it is, ironically, one of the most fallacious characters that should be hailed for his heroism. In regards to finding a more long term solution to to preventing the annihilation of the human race, it is Peter Wiggin who is the true hero. Let us look at the some of the obstacles he faced before he was given the title of Hegemon.