Perseverance 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.

Often, authors often use literary techniques to convey a particular effect, which can range from a tone, a message, a sense of danger, a feeling, etc. Portraying these techniques throughout a text allows the reader to develop a deeper understanding of said text. In the book Ender's Game, the author Orson Scott Card, uses foreshadowing, comparison, and inner dialogue to convey a sense of danger that renders the readers feeling.

A huge part of the theme of Ender's Game is saying that life is just a game. This is proved by the concept that Ender has to succeed through different 'levels' of life in order to achieve what the battle school has set out for him-killing the buggers. This is proved by the quote,”-Because most boys in this school think the game is important for itself, but it isn't. Its only important, because it helps them find kids who might grow up to be real commanders.” This is the real point of the book in which Ender fully realizes that The Battle School is really just a game. The symbols of this main idea is the armies, friends, enemies, and leaders that Ender comes in contact with in the Battle School. All of the friends, enemies, armies, and leaders that Ender meet are all part of Ender

In this novel, Ender goes through a four-part narrative process which are exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution. The exposition explains the world around him, the rising action shows the start of a conflict, the climax shows how the climax develops and shows its worst, and the resolution solves the conflict introduced. Ender develops through this novel from the exposition to the resolution about his potential for

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.

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin has been through a lot during the story. Throughout Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender has had many challenges to face during his character development. These challenges include: isolation, Battle School, other students, etc. The story of Ender’s Game tries to focus on displaying the strength of isolation by separating Ender from people who can help him. In doing so, Ender adapts to his environment and becomes able to face impossible challenges for normal people, despite the fact that it’s a dangerous strategy.

As a nine year old child, Ender should be happy and energized, but what the reader sees through the novel, Ender gets less like a child and the pressure from before, even though relieved, does still take a toll on him, showing that pressure the human race puts on it's youth to succeed, even when taken off,can still take its toll. Through catharsis, In the novel, Ender’s Game, Orson Scott card shows the reader real resemblance through major pressures in the novel, and in reality’s schools and lives. Unlike catharsis, Imagery makes the reader sympathise for characters, and experience situations.

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

Ender’s Game is a military science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card, published in 1985. The story is set in the future when the mankind is invaded by the alien race known as Buggers. The protagonist Andrew Wiggin, or known as Ender, was sent to the Battle School along with many other children to be trained as soldiers to fight against the Buggers. Ender’s Game is centred around the theme manipulation as it discussed about both positive and negative effects manipulation can cause on people.

Ender’s theme: Always making a good choice for others to benefit even though it may not be the correct one. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, shows on numerous occasions that some of the choices characters in the book have to make can be very difficult including Ender. Throughout Ender’s early life, he was constantly bullied by his brother and classmates They would be waiting, though, the bad ones. It was Stilson, of course. He wasn’t bigger than most other kids, but he was bigger than Ender.

Heroism, something all kids look to when dealing with problems. A kid being a hero, unheard of, until now. Is being a hero always a good thing? In Ender’s Game, Ender shows many qualities of heroism and defeats the bugger, saving the human race without knowing he was doing harm to anyone. Is killing millions of people really worth the title of being a hero?

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.

When the novel starts Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old genius. He has a brother, Peter, and a sister, Valentine, whom is the only person Ender truly loves. Ender is the third born in the Wiggin family, which is rare, because the limited amount of children per family is two. The government had been running a Battle School in space to train young boys and girls to become military commanders to fight against the buggers, aliens who had invaded Earth in the First and Second Invasions. Peter and Valentine had both been tried out for the Battle School, but Peter was too ruthless and Valentine was too soft towards the enemy. They both failed to go to the Battle school. But, the government wanted Ender. They

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone” (Hans F. Hansen). The book Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, describes the journey Ender took to stand alone and become a leader. At the age of six, Ender qualified to go to battle school, and he made the decision to go. This choice affected the rest of his life. Battle school is a school in space where children have education, but also learned to fight buggers. They played games which they fought each other in anti-gravity battle room. Ender exceeded everyone else and one day the world was going to depend on him. Ender is a marvelous leader because of his unbelievable intelligence, his compassion to see others succeed, and his ruthlessness to protect.

Ender’s Game is a well known science-fiction genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many