Violence In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

The book begins with Ender gets his monitor out and commander Graff tells him he needs to go to battle school because he was the smartest kid. In the shuttle going to battle school, he broke Bernard’s arm and got bullied by the bigger kids. Ender started to command his own army after standing up to the bullies and then graduated and moved to command school. He stays on earth for a while to get ready to travel to Eros and then he was isolated from everyone and then he got to fight in the war against the Buggers. They won and Ender’s team thought it was a game not

“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

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

Ender did not have a good childhood. At the age of six he was changed from a little boy into a soldier in a six year old’s body. He was worked to the breaking point and even had a mental breakdown. Ender was take by th I.F. so that he could be trained to save the world, but he didn’t know that this involved, blocking all forms of contact with his family and being pushed to be perfect at everything until he had a mental break down. Somehow he managed to win the war, but as a result he became a young man with no friends and no life. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, demonstrates the effects of taking away children's rights by working them too hard, forcing them to solve every problem themselves, and are forced into armed combat against each other.

The protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, begins as a six-year-old boy who is always terrorized by his brother. Ender never gives up, even when it seems like everyone is trying to make him fail. He is young, however, which leaves him susceptible to bullies who detest his quick mind. Although Ender proves that he has the ability to be a killer like Peter, he hates himself for that. “And then a worse fear, that he was a killer, only better at it than Peter ever was; that it was this very trait that pleased the

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.

Valentine is taken to motivate Ender because Ender does not want to “be used” by the International Fleet no longer (Card 148). Valentine warns Ender that “If [he tries] and lose[s] then it isn’t [his] fault. But if [he does not] try and [the humans] lose, then it’s all [his] fault” (Card 152). Ender discovers here that humanity was relying on him. If he chose not to fight they would have no chance, but if he did try they would be using their best man for the job. Furthermore, Ender no longer would feel guilty about having to fight the buggers “Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings” (Card 170). He looked at the truth in the situation. Though the buggers did not realize what they were doing, they were still committing a horrible act. This was Ender’s final change as a character. He would use his skill for the sake of humanity without feeling bad about

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

Our resolution tells of how Ender survives after the invasion is over. He hears that Peter is the leader of the battle on earth. Ender eventually talks with a bugger, she would like him to start a new bugger civilization. As soon as he finds that out he creates a book based off of the history. He moves on towards a new part of how the war could have gone. "The book that Ender wrote was not long, but in it was all the good and all the evil that the hive-queen knew. And he signed it, not with his name, but with the title: SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD."

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

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

are insects with human like abilities, they out weapon and outnumber the human, one of their weaknesses is the buggers can't reproduce independently, the only way is for the queen to lay eggs. The human can reproduce and regular families can only have two children, Ender was allowed by the government itself. The buggers work as one like a human body different buggers will do different things by there self the queen is like the heart of the human body,”So it’s the queen controls the whole group.” (page 310) if the queen dies buggers will slowly go extinct, one by one. Ender killed the buggers using his army, and the human won the war between the human and the buggers. The military decided because he did that the war was over and the human race was safe the military sent Ender back to earth to live the rest of his life normally.

The smallest one out of the group is Bean, who is very intelligent like Ender, and proves himself in battle. Ender’s army wins every battle they are given, including the one against Bonzo. After the battle, Bonzo brutally attacks Ender, and because of this, Ender is removed from Battle School and put into Commander School. While at Commander School, Graff takes Ender to a planet called Eros, which is where the International Fleet command is. Ender is then introduced to Mazer Rackham there. Mazer is known as the hero of the second bugger invasion that saved mankind. Rackham teaches Ender how to battle with the fleet and Ender quickly learns the buggers are highly evolved. When Ender is faced with an impossible battle, many officers are watching to see how he handles it. Ender finds the strength to pull through to victory. This battle brings Ender to the realization that the battle was real, as were the other battles that were supposedly simulated. Finding out that he lost the lives of many buggers took its toll on Ender. When Ender found out he was being used, he was informed that it was important for him to be able to understand the enemy. They needed Ender to believe that it was a game so he would win at any cost, even if it meant losing

The novel ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card (1985) is filled with fantasy, action and adventure. The novel follows the story of a young boy, aged 6 as he triumphs over challenges and ‘saves humanity.’ This thought provoking book dwells heavily on moral contradictions and complex characters. The main character - Ender is influenced by a number of other side characters, but in particular his siblings Valentine and Peter. As the third child in the family, he is outcast from the other children at a young age as the government have banned anyone to have more than 2 children due to the population growth. This initial isolation combined with the isolation he is subject to in battle school, the influence of his siblings and his extreme intelligence, Ender is able to become one of the best commanders the world has ever seen.

To begin, the usage of violent content in Ender’s game is used immensely. Not only is it used multitudinous but it is used continuously against others. It even causes some characters to enter a fictitious state of mind. For example,