Ender’s Game takes the story of the child soldier and sets it in a futuristic and dystopian society with mixed success in some areas as well as failure in others. The style and realism were interesting aspects to critique because rather than this being a memoir, it is a fictional representation that may have been fun to read, but without examination, it would be easy to miss how the book does not always stay true to the issues facing real child soldiers. Speaking to the style dimension, the book’s plot is well written and the characters are developed throughout the story line to make us genuinely care for them. However, the conversations between characters appear forced and unnatural. Reflecting on the realism of the piece, it does accurately address some of the symptoms that a child soldiers would experience with PTSD and erratic mood changes. For example, Ender wakes up biting on his first and had PTSD influenced dreams about killing Bonzo, even though he thinks the boy was just sent home after the fight. …show more content…
For the most part, he was willing to go along with the war but at that point they took away his choice and determined what his life was going to mean by tricking him into fighting a major battle and killing a whole race of creatures. This clearly reflects the lack of choice that is given to child soldiers in going along with the militia or army groups and the false information that they are fed to keep them under the adults’