Summary Of Ender's Game

     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.

The only enemy that Ender truly fears, the buggers in the end prove to be friendly. The earth's greatest enemy, the alien race it was at war with, turns out not to have been intentionally hostile. The author constantly proves that friends and enemies are not

Ender's Game is author Orson Scott Card's best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary, the plot of the novel is a story about a young child, Ender Wiggin, taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the

I don’t have murder in my heart” (Card, 84). Because Ender is afraid of becoming like his brother, he struggles with what he is and the things he did since he left home. Man vs. Society: “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.” (Card, 219) Valentine tells Ender that the government can control everyone. Families are not allowed to have more than two children unless the government gave them permission. The government allowed Ender, a third child, to be born in order to put an end to the bugger invasion. Man vs. Technology: The Battle School invented a computer mind game that challenges the children’s mind. Ender tries multiple times to beat the game, but the game always presents new obstacles. Man vs. Supernatural: “It’s the buggers themselves. I don’t know anything about them, and yet someday I’m supposed to fight them.” (Card, 167) The buggers are a race of aliens who invade Earth. They are a mysterious species that seem to possess one mind altogether. Several decades before Ender was born, the buggers were defeated, but they are invading again. The buggers’ Third Invasion is the reason Ender is taken to Battle School.

When Ender finds out that he killed a whole race he is angry and says “’I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer!”’(297).Throughout his journey Ender thinks that he is a replica of Peter. This is one of the many instances where Ender feels his whole persona is being manipulated into a copy of Peter by leaders at Battle School. Once Ender recognizes that most of his choices have been influenced by commanders such as Colonel Graff he decides to make a decision of his own by finding the buggers a new home.

Since more ships were arriving from Earth soon, Ender sets out to find more land for the colonists to settle in. In searching for more land, Ender comes across an area that resembles the images in the computer game he played at Battle School. He believes that the buggers created this place to leave him a message. When he went to the castle and looked behind the mirror, he found the chrysalis of the next bugger queen. The former queen communicates with him and shows him images of the bugger war from her point of view and tells him what he needs to do in order to start a new bugger civilization. Ender writes a book about the history of the buggers and titles it Speaker for the Dead, which becomes somewhat of a religion for some people on Earth and for most living in the bugger worlds. Ender titles the story of Peter with the same title as the one of the buggers and both books become the foundation of a new religion. At the end of the book, Ender asks Valentine to travel to different worlds with him so he can start a new bugger colony, and his search lasts for numerous

And because of Ender’s compassion, he is able to defeat the buggers. He understands them and knows how they feel, so that when he kills them, he feels terrible and wishes that he wasn’t manipulated and that he did not just kill an entire race. Ender also shows his compassionate side when he decides that he will help the buggers. When Ender finds the last pupa egg and telecommunicates with the queen bugger, he replies, “I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come away in safety” (Card 321). He realizes that the buggers did not know that humans were a thinking race during the First Invasion, which was when the buggers attacked the humans. And when they realized their mistake, they hoped that the humans would forgive them. But when the humans do not forgive them and attack during the Third Invasion, which is led by Ender, the buggers know that their race is going to die. And because the buggers know that Ender would listen to them and understand them, they are confident in his willingness to help. So when the queen bugger asks Ender to save their race, he agrees to help find a home for

Mazer Rackham manipulates Ender by saying beating the Buggers is his final test instead of saying this is the fight against the Buggers. Mazer says,’’ Congratulations, you beat them, and it’s all over” (296). This is manipulation because Mazer used Ender to defeat the Buggers

First, Ender explains that his thoughts on how he is displaced about destroying the buggers, but Mazer assures him, “You made the hard choice, boy. All or nothing. End them or end us. But heaven knows there was no other way you could have done it. Congratulations. You beat them and it’s all over” (296). A young boy, six years old, making life or death decisions. Ender

Ender is abruptly promoted to Salamander Army. There Ender is befriended by Petra Arkanian, the only girl in the army. The army commander, Bonzo Madrid, does not like Ender and does not want him around. Ender practices with Petra and begins to teach his launch group what he knows. Ender helps the army by disobeying Bonzo, who hates Ender, but fortunately Ender is traded to Rat Army. Ender is put in Dink Meeker's platoon. Dink is an excellent toon leader, and Ender does well in battles. He continues teaching his Launchies, even though this causes resentment among other soldiers. Ender gets into a fight and he hurts four older boys who attack him. It is clear to Ender that the teachers are leaving him to fend for himself.

The issue is resolved when Ender starts to have dreams about the Buggers. The dreams are him fighting the Buggers in war and he is winning all of the fights. later on Ender is put on a planet which was very similar to his "dream" against the Buggers. He realizes that the Buggers were prepared for

Imagine that one day we finally discover that we are not alone in this universe, but instead of celebrating or making a contact we unleash a war on these far more advanced creatures. Now the Earth can only rely on young children to fight the aliens and anything can happen if we lose, aliens taking over the Earth or even destroy our planet. This sounds terrifying,but this is a good thought to think about and Orson Scott Card reenacted this idea into a book called The Ender’s Game. The Ender’s game is about a kid, named Ender, who is invited to school where they learn how to fight an insect alien like creatures called “buggers”. Ender develop new skills as he takes a simulation after simulation and destroys the alien

Enders Game is a military science fiction novel. Set in Earths future, this book is based on life on Earth and space after two warlike conflicts with an insectoid alien species, the “buggers” and Earth. While the people of Earth are preparing for a third invasion, children everywhere are raised and trained from a very young age to “fight”. The government prepares these selected children with increasingly difficult “games” including some resembling a battle in a space-like environment with zero gravity. In these “games” is when Ender’s genius in battle is revealed to the government. Ender Wiggin, the main character is the third child in his family. In his family a cruel brother four years older,

Enders game is a science fiction, dystopian novel that shows many different relationships that go against what we as a 1st world society know and live in today. The text is set in the eventual future and full with space ships, buggers and war games. The story is about a 6 year old boy called Ender Wiggin who has been chosen to save the world. Ender has to attend battle school, where it isn’t long before his peers realise that he is possibly the greatest war game personnel to date.

“It admirably avoids many of the pitfalls of adapting this book, but seems to have lost some of the life and pace as well” - Helen O'Hara. Ender’s Game is a story about an eight year old boy, named Andrew Wiggen. He is enrolled into a military boot camp, where he and others are trained to play certain games, that will show their potential to lead a fleet against a constantly growing enemy. The movie Ender's Game miss Several themes and ideas of the book.