...In the book Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the main character, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin learns very quickly the detriments of his decisions. The choices he makes affect not only his own life, but the lives of his family, his friends, his adversaries, and the countless lives of the buggers. Winston Churchill once said that “A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.” Ender Wiggin is the epitome of this quote. Ender Wiggin was born to win. He was created in a lab by the government to have the ultimate genetic capacity—to have extreme intelligence, with just enough compassion and fury to save humanity. Being a third, which is a derogatory term used for a third child, implied that Ender was an ignominy to his family and to society. This title forced Ender to prove that he was better, that he could win when no one else could, including his own brother and sister. The first evidence of Ender’s intense need to win happened as soon as he had the monitor removed from his head. Upon his return from the infirmary, Ender’s nemesis, Stilson, approached him to torment him once again. Ender, who had received many beatings from this boy in the past, thought, “I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse” (Card, 7). Even Blackmore believes that Ender represents an elite, powerful warrior class which is at heart pacific but...
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...Formics Ender eats pudding at lunch Ender eats a brownie at lunch Ender proves his dominance by killing those that bullied him including Stilson and Bonzo. He doesn't kill them. Ender starts the story as a 6 year old and at the end he is in his early teens. He is the same teenager through out the story. Ender hacks his chat feature on his desk to send the message, "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. - God" He sends the message "Bernard is living proof that they still send chimps into space." Bernard is friends with Bonzo and is with him when Ender kills him in the shower. He is not seen after that. Bernard bullies Ender, but eventually he joins Ender's jeesh. Ender breaks Bernard's arm when they are on the shuttle to battle school which leads Bernard to bully him. This doesn't happen. Peter was the character Locke there were no "Locke" character Valentine was the character Demosthenes. there were no "Demosthenes" character There were major parts which focused on Peter and Valentines involvement with politics no talk/plot of politics between Peter and Valentine After having his monitor removed he fought a bigger boy and Ender killed him we never learn of the boys fate but he appeared mostly OK. Ender fought Bonzo at Battle School he killed him. Bonzo was hurt and had a brain injury but lived. Ender never played the boy (he ended up fighting) at school before his monitor was removed. Ender played the...
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...Ender’s Game Ender Wiggin is a special six year old boy sent to a special military school simply for the honor of the way he handles himself. The Government sees the great potential in Ender and sees the possibility of him being the one to save the world from the buggers (huge alien insects who almost wiped out all of humankind once upon a time). Everyone selected to go to this military school is to never contact their family ever again until they are eighteen. His brother Peter was jealous of the fact that Ender became a third longer than he did and punished him all the time by beating on Ender whenever the chance arose. Ender has a sister named Valentine who by her name you could guess she was the love and good in Ender’s life. Their bond was of the strongest thing that Ender had to remembering the outside world. His brother Peter talks Valentine into using her special skills of persuasion to help him get the audience of the people to recognize his intelligence in order to try and gain a seat of power to run the world. They are all VERY gifted children; in fact most of these kids are not your ordinary six, seven, and eight year olds in this novel. The government is searching for that one leader who will help them be prepared and ready to win a war against a fearsome opponent (buggers). In that, the ones who actually make it to battle school are put in battles against each other in order for the government to test the potential in every kid that is attending in...
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...stepping-stones that would allow Ender to become the great military leader and strategist that helped him defeat the buggers. Graff made many difficult decisions that seemed irrelevant at the time but proved very critical to Ender’s success. Mazer Rackham didn’t have much time to mould Ender into what the world needed, however he used the time that was given to him very effectively. Mazer modeled Ender after himself because he himself had once defeated the buggers single headedly just like Ender was born to do. The person of utmost importance to Ender is his sister Valentine. She not only shaped him into a great leader but her opinion was also the only other opinion that Ender listened to other than his own. She was the only person that could convince Ender to use his talents to save human kind from the bugger’s As the earth became overly populated, a rule was put in place that one family could have no more than two kids. The Wiggin family was an exception to that rule due to the overlying potential of their two previous children in Peter and Valentine. Although Peter and Valentine both showed signs of incredible intelligence, Peter was deemed to be too violent and Valentine too empathic. The International Fleet hoped that by the Wiggin family giving birth to a third child he could be the balance between both Peter and Valentine. Ender Wiggin was that third child and was born to be the leader of the International Fleet. Colonel Graff knew even before Ender was born that he was going...
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...from your family, and being a world hero at the age of 12 Jesus to some and Hitler to others? In the book The Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card ,Ender Wiggen, the protagonist of the book, a six year young boy who was separated from his family, taken away to battle school out in space in order to be trained to become a military commander to thwart the enemies, the Buggers, from destroying the human kind. He is betrayed, manipulated and tricked into `destroying an entire species experiencing all of this he attains maturity at a very young age following makes a very important decision towards the end of the book. Although, the book and the movie were both great, I prefer the book over the movie for the sake of details....
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...Andrew or Ender Wiggin was the third in a family of child geniuses and was picked by a special military group to save the world from aliens or what they call in the book buggers. Before Ender was chosen, he had to wear a monitor that allowed people from the military to see what he was doing and that monitor was taken out when he was chosen but Ender thought that the military didn’t want him anymore just like his siblings. Ender’s older siblings also wore the same monitor but neither of them was chosen and that made one of his siblings mad and the name of that sibling was Peter and when the monitor was taken out of Ender Peter’s anger didn’t even decrease by a bit. But it’s also the same with Ender’s schoolmates because they tried to beat him up, but Ender stood up for...
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...Ender is a monster because he killed the bugger planet without completely understanding them. He also killed other kids unknowingly but still should’ve stopped fighting them once they were on the ground. Ender should have listened to his voice inside that told him to stop fighting his opponent once they are in the ground. A six year old should not be killing other six year olds. One reason why Ender is a monster because he killed one of his piers, Stilson. After Peter stops Ender from breathing, “Ender stood there watching him laugh and thought of Stilson, thought of how it felt to crunch into his body. This is who needed it. This is who should have got it” (14). Even after Ender kills Stilson, he is still considering getting into a fight again,...
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...Colonel Graff is a good mentor in Ender’s Game only because he was trying to prepare Ender to save the world for a greater good. According to the text, Graff told Ender, “Maybe you’ll break down under the pressure, maybe it’ll ruin your life, maybe you’ll hate me for coming here to your house today. But if there’s a chance that because you’re with the fleet, mankind might survive and the buggers might leave us alone forever---then I’m going to ask you to do it. To come with me” (Card 25). This shows that Colonel Graff has really good intentions, and that even if it might put Ender in a lot of pressure, it’s to save mankind from the buggers. Additionally, in chapter 4, after Ender demonstrates the realization “that in null gravity directions...
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...life is to be the leaders of the army that defends Earth from the "Third Invasion." Ender is one of those children. Andrew Wiggin's very birth was government mandated, where most families are allowed only two children, but the government requisitioned his birth. After a short six years of torment from his genius older brother Peter, and love from his genius older sister Valentine, Ender is recruited into the army after passing tests, and quickly rises to the top of the class. Loved and hated by other students at Battle School, Ender is isolated by his success, in the games that the students play, and by his teachers treatment of his excellence. The adults do not give him the chance to settle in and find a peer group instead they push him with such urgency that they are willing to break the entire Battle School system down. Colonel Graff, the one who found and groomed Ender, runs Battle School and risks his reputation, and humanity's existence, on his strong belief that Ender is the one who can defeat the Buggers. Battle School consists of games. there is a Fantasy Game, a game room (like an arcade), and the battle room, where war games are played in zero gravity. The battle room plays a key role in Battle School, and students often get so caught up in the game that they seldom realize that they're at the school to defeat the Buggers. One such student, Bonzo Madrid, comes to hate Ender, and Bonzo plans to kill him. Ender's excellence pulls through in battle after battle...
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...The book starts off with Ender getting his monitor off. A monitor is something that they but on the back of these peoples necks to see if they are a good candidate to be a general to fight the buggers. The buggers are aliens. Well, since he is not monitored anymore people who have always wanted to fight him can now fight them. He ends up winning all of the fights and he goes home. As it turns out taking off his monitor was a test to see how he would handle people that fight him. A general then explains that he want to send Ender to battle school so he can learn how to fight in space. Ender decides to go. When he gets there he finds out that it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then goes to command school were he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet and a vast number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on the planet that blows it up. When he finishes the battle he realizes that everyone is cheering behind...
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...Cayla Rosenbaum English II – 2 10/7/14 Ender Wiggin: The Boy Who Could. When thinking of a powerful commander with the correct intellect and skill to save the world, I doubt anyone pictures an eleven year old. However, Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Cards novel Ender’s Game is not your typical, brainless eleven year old. In fact, he shows more courage, capability, and adaptability than most middle-aged adults. Using these raw skills Ender Wiggin saves the world at the fresh age of eleven. Ender shows multiple examples of courage throughout the book specifically in chapter fourteen when Ender makes the ruthless yet courageous decision to blow the bugger home planet to pieces. “Then he whispered a command and the ships dropped like rocks toward the planet’s surface…. Almost from the moment they began to drop they were focusing their Little Doctors on one thing only. The Planet itself” (294). Young Ender wasn’t expected to go so far as to blow the planet itself up, but because of his courage he went above and beyond all expectations. Because of Ender’s courageous personality he is completely capable of the task at hand. In fact Ender had been showing signs of capability since he was six. “Ender knew the unspoken rules of manly warfare, even though he was six.” (7). Ender unknowingly used his “knowledge of manly warfare” to show his capability of being the next commander and saving the world five years later by literally beating the young boy into a pulp, to show the others...
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...In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, unfortunatley Enders contract and the fact that he was the third child made his relationship with his family rather unusal and strained. The governent strongly proposed that Enders parents have a third child. The military and Colonel Graff was really desperate and hopeful that Ender would have what it takes to become a brilliant military leader that would contribute to their victory over the buggers! The reason why they were desperate to have someone capeable of leading the war was because they did not know when the aliens would decide to strike. It was extremely important to Ender's parents that they had a compliant family that had followed the law of having two kids. Having Ender as a third child created a enormous amount of conflict due to the sacrifices they have made. A example of how it created conflict was explained by Colonel Graff. He said that they did not want to reveal their religons since they did not follow the law because the father's family had nine kids when they are only suppose to have two kids. Also, the mother's family had more than two kids. Another example of conflict is Peter, brother of Ender, is very jealous and proud because he also wanted to be a military leader....
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...carry you,’ said Ender, ‘I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time, they can forgive you, too. The way that you’ve forgiven me’” (Card 321). Ender’s words encompass the themes that are shown throughout Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game is a story centered around a child by the name of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, and his ability to command the Earth’s Military and defeat the aliens that once attacked the Earth, the Buggers. Through redemption and strength, Ender trains and fights to become their leader, and perhaps the Earth’s only savior. There are two forms of the Ender’s Game story, the original novel, Written by Orson Scott Card,...
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...Way Isn't Always Direct or Clear to Him/Her Ender Wiggin did not expect to be chosen as a recruit for Battle School. Ender's father says, "It's not very kind of you, to let us think you didn't want him, and then take him after all" (Card, 20). This shows that the administrators of Battle School are toying with Ender's mind and confidence. As readers though, only we know that this evidence also shows that pretending to not want Ender was only a cover so the administrators can see what he would do without his monitor as protection. Colonel Graff replies, "For the two of you, the choice was made when Ender was conceived. But for Ender, the choice has not been made at all" (Card, 20). This evidence shows that Ender originally had no choice in the matter, nor did he expect the Battle School might want him. This also proves that Ender did not have adequate time to think about his decision, resulting...
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...In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggins, the main character, faces many challenges in his journey through the Battle School. Ender is different than most other kids; he is a savant, he is small, and he is a third. Wiggins possesses tremendous knowledge and mental capabilities. He is able to process and think faster and more accurately than most other children in the world. Ender is smaller than most other children, he is supposedly defenseless, which makes him lesser than most of the other children who supposedly have superior rankings to him. Lastly, he is a third, the third born of a family, the title that all children fear and hate, the title of shame and rejection. These differences that Ender faces torments him through his childhood, but in the end, make him victorious in the challenges to come. During the setting of Ender's Game, the world had been attacked by aliens called the Buggers. Through the first attack, Earth was heavily damaged and very vulnerable. However, a great man called Mazer Rackham, a savant, led the armies of Earth against the Buggers in the second attack, and defeated them. Since then, the government of planet Earth searched for children who were smart enough and capable enough to live up to Rackham's success and aid in the destruction of the Buggers. After many years, Ender was born, and he was the smartest that was ever born. He possessed the mental capabilities that most adults never even dreamed of reaching. But most of all, he was a true leader, the truest...
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