Truth In Ender's Game

Graff also tells Ender how he changed his parent’s life. At the end of the talk Ender makes the decision to go to the Battle School. This is what mainly happens in this chapter. Important Quotes One important quote in this chapter is “But I’ll go with you,” (Scott,26). This quote is important because Ender chooses to go to the Battle School.

2 major and reoccurring themes throughout Ender’s Game is manipulation and deception. Much of this novel is about how adults manipulate Ender into fulfilling their needs. They trick him, lie to him, and tell him just enough so that he can defeat the buggers. Ender pretty much sums this up when he says, “I've spent my life as someone's pawn" (Pg. 97). On one hand, it seems wrong to lie to and cheat a kid. On the other hand, the adults manipulate him to ensure the survival of the human race. Besides the manipulative relationship between the adults and Ender, there are a number of other relationships full of manipulation: Peter manipulates Valentine, Peter and Valentine manipulate the world, and

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 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.

Colonel Graff. “your practice sessions with half-assed little launchies are over, Wiggin”(Card 100). Within the whole novel of ender's game colonel Graff always has to be riding Enders tail. Colonel Graff only ever picked on ender because he knew he was special, and that he was better than all of the other kids. Although Colonel Graff liked Ender he still gave him a hard time. He was trying to make Ender the best Person that he could be. “I'm not going to quit my freetime practice sessions”(Card 101). Everyone always tried to manipulate Ender by taking his stuff when he still wants it. Ender didn't want to be this way. Ender wanted to be a normal kid, but instead he's a genius who is also a third. Colonel graff manipulates Ender by trying to take away his practice time but Ender doesn't let

Undermined by dread of another extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity turns to the youngsters to get ready for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the motion picture based – very loosely - on that novel. So how true to the book were these producers? Translating a 368 page military science fiction novel from 30 years back into a 2 hour film regardless of how well approached will have a few aspects of it hit the fan. With the principle force of the story being fixated on Ender's inward voice and several enormous subplots, a few components are sure to be not true to the book whatsoever.

Chapter 3: There is a knock at the door while Ender and his family are eating dinner, it is a commander of the International Fleet and want Ender to go to battle school. Ender got his Monitor taken off but Colonel Graff had his final test to see how he reacted without the monitor. Ender’s reason for continually hurting Stilson was to make sure that Stilson did not hurt him again and Colonel graph approves and convinces Ender to go to Battle School.

My reasoning for this is because Ender was forced to be a dangerous person all out of other people’s jealousy. Next, Ender was manipulated easily, having to face torturous and unfair training, Lastly, in the end of the book, Ender realizes that buggers aren’t as harmful as they seem from Eros. So, in the end the war had been pointless.     Ender’s dangerous attitude had come people’s decisions to be jealous of him. Ender was faced with an altercation where Colonel Graff scolded everyone, but Ender.

Although what Graff did was cruel, it was a smart move on his part. Having so much authority in Battle School he gets to do what he wants. He had a goal, and he had the tool to achieve it. Unfortunately it was at the cost of Ender’s trust. Being in his shoes and needing to save the world from the buggers he made the right call. He got do do what he wanted like the lyrics “now I do what i want.” Graff says “the buggers? That was the idea.” after Ender says he killed “them” on page 297.

With mostly boys around him, he seemed to have aimed for the top, winning the most games. But, since that arrogance followed him around, many of the other boys got annoyed with him. Some, like Bonzo and his goons, even tried to kill him at his most vulnerable. As a regular kid, Ender would’ve been squashed to a pulp. But, due to his training, and his strategic thinking, he actually won the fight with Bonzo. No normal, innocent kid would win against someone like Bonzo, but Ender did, because he’s seen too many outcomes of the same predicament, as he has won against many other foes in the past leading up to this

The beginning of training, Graff isolated Ender to get the other kids to dislike him. He shows that Ender is better than them and they start to hate him. He gradually manipulates Ender to take the form of the commander they want. This is reprehensible, the military can’t manipulate people and it is a violation of human rights.

So far what I have read is Ender Wiggins was being bullyed by this kid named Stillson he then got tired of it so he beat Stillson and kept kicking him even when he was down in order to will all future battles. Colonial Graff then arrives at his house to ask him to come to battle school because he thinks he can be the best. Ender agrees, he then travels to battle school. He meets this kid named Alai who is a very nice kid they become friends. Ender does a whole bunch of training and he does night training with his friend Alai and some other kids. He is then reported to join salamander army which is led by Bonzo Madrid. He then meets Bonzo, Bonzo tell him he is going to be traded immediately. Ender meets this girl named Petra who offers to show

Furthermore, Ender is sequestered from his launch group on the fly to Battle School by Colonel Graff setting him up as a higher-ranked and more intelligent individual than the others; accordingly, Ender is debarred from his peers. Graff calling everyone except Ender imprudent and inadequate causes a great disturbance in the recruit members. Some tempered children, like Bernard, gang up against him and torment Ender physically. As a result, everyone starts hating

He will lie just to get the person into the army ,”How will you do that?” ”I’ll lie to him.”(page 46). Graff thinks very seriously of the war and he will get the best commander that’s not dead to teach the new commander how to kill and defeat the buggers once and for all. (at least how to stall the buggers in their time). Mazer Rackham taught Ender how to be a better commander and how he stalled the bugger invasion for a pretty long time until Ender killed all of the buggers and finished the war against the human and the

3. When a kid named Bernard comes back to Battle School after Ender broke his arm. Bernard starts picking on him looking for revenge. So, in retaliation, Ender hacks into the desks leaving notes on kid’s desks saying they were sent by Bernard even though they were actually sent by Ender. Then Ender sets up a better security system so they can’t track him. Ender believes that the system was a mere game to see who could break it. But, it isn’t a real game. Ender imagines it as a game because Ender is manipulative but also compassionate convincing kids to leave Bernard’s gang. His compassion helps him visualize Bernard’s place and thoughts making it easy for Ender to beat him. [120