The Ender's Game

When given a dynamic setting and plot, change is inevitable. In the novel, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the author tells the story of a dystopian society which focuses on the task of defending itself from extraterrestrial creatures. Through the course of the book, the protagonist, Ender Wiggin, faces challenges that influence his actions and attitude. Although there are many characters who undergo change in the novel, Ender’s dynamic personality traits are more evident, being that he has a larger impact on readers. Due to being manipulated, Ender Wiggin changes from an ambitious young boy, to a subdued and wary character.

     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.

Pressure, pain, corruption, and insecurity; imagine dealing with this every moment of your life. In The Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, a young boy genius must take on the weight of the world while dealing with these things. Ender, a nine year old boy, is chosen by the government to go to Battle School, where he must learn to fight and improve his army skills. While he's there, he struggles with his own morality and insecurity, and tries to do what other people want him to do. Even though he is so smart that he beats every single challenge presented to him, he had to learn throughout the course of the novel to be self-reliant and try to figure out the truth about his whole training. Although Ender is a boy

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.

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

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about a boy named Ender Wiggin. When he is 6 years old he is taken from his home to go train in a place called Battle School to fight aliens, or “buggers”. He learns to command an army and plays games to train for the battle against the buggers. When the game is over, Ender learns it isn’t a game at all and they have won the war against the buggers. Two themes in this books are “Life isn’t always going to be fair”, and “Make the best of what you have.” These two themes are in the book because Ender has to deal with having a horrible army to train and the teachers aren’t fair to Ender at all.

What could be better than a six year old boy killing two people, going to battle school, becoming a commander and killing an entire species? And he did all that by the time he was 13 years old. There’s a little bit of a difference between the book Enders game and the movie Ender Game. In the book Ender Wiggins was 6 years old and by the end he was 13 but in the movie he stayed 16 the whole time.

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.

Many years into the future, aliens are attacking planet Earth. The leaders of the world are tasked with finding the one who can save humanity and the person they chose is a six-year-old boy. This is the situation in Ender’s Game, a 1977 science fiction novel in which author, Orson Scott Card, points out multiple problems in today’s society. The two most prominent themes in Ender’s Game is “war as a game” and the “control of information” where isolation is thought of a the key.

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 starts out with Ender Wiggin a Genius at the mere age of 6 who is considered a better shot at saving the Earth from “the Buggers” (Bug like aliens) than any adult. He lives in a postwar society where ironically the only thing stopping an Earth-wide war is the fear of alien attacks. Because of this, you could say our world is quite different than Ender's. We do not have aliens attacking us, we have not had 5 world wars, and furthermore, we do not take advantage of innocent children in order to fight our battles. In contrast, our world could turn into Ender's. China already has a population crisis, we have had two world wars, and lastly children can be easily manipulated, especially when in the hands of evil people.

“You won’t fail, Ender. Not this early in the course. You’ve had some tight ones, but you’ve always won. You don’t know what your limits are yet, but if you’ve reached them already you’re a good deal feebler than I thought.” (Card 286). Ender’s Game is a dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card that follows the training and thoughts of the protagonist, Ender, ultimately ending with the destruction of an alien race, the buggers. 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 actions.

There are always overruling and overbearing people in life, there are the ones who do us good, and the many that stand by and watch both. Id, ego, and superego are what makes up the human psyche (or someone’s personality). They fulfill the unconscious, desires, and defenses. The book Ender’s Game can be viewed through the lens of psychoanalytical criticism, as the id, ego, and superego can be revealed with the characters in the novel.

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, in this manner card illustrates that there is much one can learn from the transformation of varelse to raman.

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