Ender's Game

Ender’s Game: Character Development, Theme and Symbolism 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

Brian Ton 8/9/2017 Ender’s Game - By Orson Scott Card (Author’s Definitive Edition) “The teacher would know, of course, that he wasn’t paying attention,but she wouldn’t bother him. He always knew the answer even when she thought he wasn’t paying attention.” (Card 3) “Ender looked at the others coldly. “You might be having some idea of ganging up on me …. But just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me.” (Card 5) “Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the

foreshadows the manipulation Ender is destined to face in order to save the human race from bugger retaliation. Although being misled, in this case, is not particularly bad, for he is being used to defend others, it shows how oppressed the government in Ender’s Game has become. Children cannot decide their own fate but must act for others. This brings about the theme of manipulation; children are meant to function as pawns, nothing more and nothing less. From the start, Peter is portrayed as a dangerous character

In the first chapter of the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Ender gets him monitor removed. Ender had him monitor with him from when he was born to when he was six years old. This device had allowed the authorities to view the world as he did. Most kids didn’t keep their monitors as long as Ender did, this made Ender an outcast. Peter, Ender’s brother, also had a monitor but Ender had his for a year longer then his brother, because of this Peter hates Ender. All Ender wanted was to be Peter’s

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

Ender’s Game is a scientific fiction novel, set in the future. Aliens, also knows as buggers, have attacked earth twice. Most of the story is set in Battle School; a well trained military program in outer space. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is assigned the task of defeating the buggers, in there third engagement. Ender becomes the best leader ever by building loyalty and developing teamwork. At the beginning of the novel, Ender is chosen by Colonel Graff to take place in a program called Battle School

Romeo and Juliet and Enders Game are two immensely different stories with obvious differences due to the time they were written, and intentional differences in the kind of story they are. One is a science fiction war story, the other is a renaissance romantic tragedy. It may not be clear, but both stories actually do have some surprising similarities. Both male protagonists share an unwanted enemy, Ender is very young in battle school, making quick progress in his campaign through the program

In Ender's game a boy named Ender Wiggin is sent to battle school at a very young age to learn how to become a commander in the military. Throughout the entire book the government seems to control everything. This reflects Orson Scott Card's communistic political views. The government controls how many kids’ families can have, and the government begins conditioning children to become military leaders at a very young age. Another underlying theme in this book is the idea of perfection. Throughout

Imagine if you had to leave the country by yourself or leave your family for a while. How would you feel? How would you feel when you got home to see them again? The book Ender’s Game is very easy to compare and contrast to The Odyssey because of the themes, characters, and the plot lines. Three of the characters in Ender's Game are Ender, Valentine, and Colonel Graff, and in The Odyssey there was Odysseus, Penelope, and Athena. They have something in common with each other. Ender and Odysseus both

Introduction The amount of times the superiors in Ender’s life are truthful towards him is limited. As Ender accurately states in the book, “I’ve spent my life as someone’s pawn.” (page 312) This novel consists of adults constantly manipulating Ender in order to fulfill their own needs. These superiors successfully deceive him into defeating the buggers, they trick him and lie to him, only revealing enough of the truth for him to be victorious. It seems wrong to influence and lie to a young kid