What Is The Value Of Life

The book novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a book of perseverance and smarts and the benefits of being unique.

     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.

In Ender’s Game, the constrained amount of freedom is evident right at the beginning of the novel when the International Fleet places Ender in Battle School. Not only was Ender overwhelmed with numerous laws and rules, but he was frequently supervised. Ender’s frustration in the lack of freedom he receives can be shown when Card says, “Now he knew what he hated so much. He had no control over his own life. They ran everything. They made all the choices. Only the game was left to him, that was all, everything else was them and their rules and plans and lessons and programs, and all he could do was go this way or that way in battle” (Card 117). This quote demonstrates Ender’s predicament at Battle School. Many times in the novel, the International Fleet reminds Ender that he is the ‘best soldier’ there; however, he is still soldier doing what someone else wants him to do. As a result, the commanders praise Ender as he is described as the “best in this launch” (Card 26); however, by giving him a high status, in reality this is an illusion as he lacks autonomy and the title is meaningless. Also, Card uses the game Ender plays in Battle School as an image to show the lack of freedom he has. By stating how the only thing Ender has left is the game and that “all he could do was go this way or that way,” Card gives the impression that the only aspect in life Ender has a little freedom in, is still confined by rules that it is meaningless. Additionally, the constrained amount of freedom in Ender’s Game is present not only for Ender, but for everyone. This can be displayed when Valentine (Ender’s sister) claims that, “Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you” (Card 241). Valentine talks about the theme of

Should people put the value of life into monetary value or should life be kept solely as an emotional quantity? People and societies throughout the ages have been trying to answer the problem of putting the value of life into terms of dollar bills. The ancient Egyptians buried their dead with all of their worldly belongings. They believed a person’s monetary worth on Earth was over, and they should take all of that earthly worth with them to the afterlife. Modern day Americans are different from the Egyptians. Today people believe that the families of the dead should be compensated for “their” loss.

Did you ever wish you were considered the most important person in the world? In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender, a six year old boy, who is chosen to save the world. Ender has to overcome many obstacles to become this great leader. The obstacles include being small, weak, and a third. Ender eventually overcomes these obstacles, however as a result Ender becomes a ruthless killer. Ender’s computer game shows how he is unknowingly interacting with the buggers, while the novel itself “Ender's Game” symbolizes how Ender decides who lives and who dies.

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.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. In the science fiction novel Ender’s Game, the author, Orson Scott Card, reveals themes that are important in today’s society. The author teaches people how to understand other peoples’ feelings by demonstrating actions and thoughts in the novel.

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.

I think the theme of ender’s game is him becoming the best commander they have ever had its about him growing up and learning to be responsible and leading his own army at just 7 years old at only 7 but yet still better than any teenage commander he is learning how to be a more well thought out kid and learn discipline and to be a respectful commander the best they have ever had has to be the one they have been waiting for.

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

“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.

Card uses the game and the school to represent a culture based on the military and Ender as what the effects of living in a society like that can have on someone. The bullies and the school test Ender,s morals and he go against them which makes him miserable. By calling something a game a person makes something seem innocent even if it isn't, and people go along with games and sometimes it causes them a lot of pain.

I believe value is something only an individual can assign to their own life based on experience and significance. A life is’t an object you can place a price on, it’s a complex network full of experiences good and bad shared with others. Everyone on this planet has value not just to themselves but to others as well but that value is higher than any amount of money existing. Everyones life has an effect on the people around them. If you were to die tomorrow everyones life in your network of family and friends would change

Countries less privileged than America face the reoccurring issue of being taken advantage of. This occurs because these countries have high unemployment rates and are in poverty so they are given jobs through American factories. This process, though, is not always a fair one. Haiti and China are both countries with bad labor regulations, usually by American influence, and this hurts the welfare of these countries as a whole, the individuals in these countries, and the morality of America.