Ender's Game

Ali HassanEnder's game essay 21 April 2013 Ender's Game has many deep thoughts the reader can conclude. One of the important themes that the story has is the relationship between masculinity and femininity. I like to call the relationship between masculinity and femininity in Ender's Game “the circulation of features”. This name derived from the description and changes in characters. At the beginning the story gives the typical features of men and women. Women are emotional, but men are cold-hearted

“It’s not intentions that matter, it’s actions. We re what we do and say, not what we intend to do.” (Unknown) In some cases though, that’s not always true. Ender’s Game, a science-fiction book by Orson Scott Card, extremely contradicts it. The main character, Ender is manipulated into many terrible actions, while he has good morales and never intended to do these terrible things. He is portrayed as a good kids and one of the underlying themes convey that intentions mean everything, not the

Manipulation and Deception in Ender’s Game 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

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” This is a quote from the 1985 science fiction book Ender’s Game by John Harris. This quote exemplifies the conflict inside of the main character, Josh, throughout the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, a film written by Steven Zaillian, The two traits that create this battle are his compassion for the others and his want to please his father. One side of Josh’s

Ender’s Game Essay The struggle for identity within Ender’s Game was a common theme throughout the book. Ender’s Game is a book about a boy named Ender who was recruited into the battle school in hopes of unlocking his true potential so he could command the IF as he was humanity’s last hope. His main goal would be beating the buggers who are an alien species who launched two invasions on Earth and Ender was told that a third one would eventually come. Characters such as Ender are pushed to their

Speaker for the Dead builds on the popular Orson Scott Card story, Ender’s Game, of Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. The book is set thousands of years after Ender destroys an intelligent race referred to as the buggers, on the lush uncolonized world of Lusitania. Lusitania is home to vast, unending forests and grasslands. A horrible disease called the Descolada has left the planet with only a small city, and a few native species. One of these species is the piggies, a hyper-intelligent species at the earliest

How does today’s society distinguish good and evil? In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, characters such as Ender Wiggin and Peter Wiggin face the same question within themselves. Ender is portrayed as a good character by the author while Peter is seen as someone who only brings destruction. Seeing as the reader has Ender’s perspective on most things can help the reader assume that Ender is good and Peter bad. An example of a quarrel in the novel is when Peter chokes Ender. “I could

In Ender’s Game the buggers are portrays as the enemies of humans and they thrive on killing humans and attempted to destroy the human races. The buggers are only humans’ enemies because we are not able to understand them and know their intentions. Also there is talk in the book of the Russian becoming the enemies, when they were trying to break the Warsaw Pact and take over more territories. The real enemies in the book are who Dink say, “the adults.” The adults in the book use countless tactics

from the buggers. Ender lives with other new recruits called launchies. Soon Ender makes a few friends, ending his isolation. Ender makes a friend names Alai. The help Ender fit in with the rest of the group. Ender start to play a computer game called the mind game. He gets further than anyone else and military commanders start to take notice. Ender is unexpectedly promoted into Salamander army. There, Ender becomes friends with the only girl in the army, Petra Arkanian. The commander of the army, Bonzo

Science fiction principles can be identified throughout the narrative elements of ender's game by Orson Scott Card being the setting and themes. The plot of ender's game follows the character ender wiggin as he is raised in a battle school after earth lost the first war with the “buggers”, an insect like alien creature, ender was then promoted to command school and trained to command the fleet. On the day of ender's final training simulation he was unaware that he was controlling the real fleet, and