...“‘I’ll 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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...Ruthlessness in Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card wrote, “It was forbidden to strike the opponent who lay helpless on the ground; only an animal would do that. So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him, again, viciously, in the ribs,” (Card 7). Right and wrong in the eyes of a child can become mixed and almost indistinguishable at times. Ruthlessness tends to be classified “wrong” and plays into Ender’s story as a theme. It can be considered necessary in situations; however, Ender often participates in instances in which it cannot be justified. Ruthlessness, necessary or unnecessary, causes major decisions to be made which influence the overall plot, character behavior, and character development. Graff, Peter, and Ender have proven...
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...Imagine a situation as if you were put in a small dark box and you are trying to escape, but no one is willing to help you. This was the exact situation that Ender was placed in. The book and the movie, Ender's Game, are about a boy named Ender who was “born” to save the world. Ender was isolated throughout his life to make him mentally stronger. At the end of the story, he destroys the whole alien race and saves the world. While the book and the movie have a similar story, the book is much better than the movie because the book conveys the story with more depth. There are many crucial elements in Ender’s Game that are needed for the story to be good. One theme that is important in the story is that the end justifies the means. This is...
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...Picture this: a game that you have been playing for one year has just been revealed to you as being real. Everything that you did in that “game” has also happened in real life. That is exactly what happened to Ender in Chapter 14 of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. In Ender’s “simulator”, he had destroyed an entire species, known in the book as “buggers”. Immediately after this revelation, Ender felt regret that he had killed the buggers, and also anger that he was manipulated into doing something against his will by his superiors, the adults. The way that Command School authorities handled Ender’s situation was wrong because they had manipulated Ender into fighting their battle against his own free will. Moreover, Colonel Graff and the IF hurt other, innocent and uninvolved students to achieve their ends....
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...initial box office sales shows that, this movie was not successful and the book was revolutionary everyone can agree to that. Ender’s Game revolutionized the way we viewed the future and made us realize the true problems or enemies of society may not be what you think they are. Throughout the book you are entertained by Ender’s trials & tribulations and will eventually end content with his conquest. Ender’s Game has many staple ideas throughout the story and many of them are important for us to know. Ender learns that you never know the truth behind a situation, there are always other people in control manipulating the final outcome. The Buggers were known to be the enemy worldwide eventually you will find out that everything is not as it seems. The main goal of Ender and the International Fleet is to completely destroy the Bugger civilization so they never will be able to retaliate again, Ender does not know the whole story and never will until the end of it all. Ender Wiggen does not stand alone, Valentine his beloved sister will always be there for him through the ups and downs created by the adults to form their “perfect world”, his family is very important to him but...
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...Imagine a world where the only salvation for the human race is a six year old boy. Ender’s Game is a book, written by Orson Scott Card, about that six year old boy named Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. When he was six years old, he left his family to join the International Fleet’s Battle School so he can learn to command or even fight against the buggers, an alien race that invaded earth 50 years prior. He defeats them by putting everything on the line and destroying their planet. The book portrayed the story much better than the movie had and was a more enjoyable experience because it had many suspenseful moments that were taken out of the movie. Ender’s Game had many key elements that would not have made the story as great if they were not included....
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...Compassion is what makes us human. It is a main theme in Ender’s Game and what separates Ender from his psychotic, power hungry brother Peter. Ender Wiggin’s purpose in life as determined by the controlling government is to become the ultimate military commander who will destroy the Buggers, an alien race that the humans have engaged in war with two times before. The movie Ender's Game excludes crucial details from the novel by Orson Scott Card making the book a more thrilling work of science fiction. The plot of Ender's Game keeps the reader interested with important details and subplots. One of the most crucial details in the book are the internet personas that Peter and Valentine take on to capture the eye of the world. “Demosthenes and Locke” write political articles from two different perspectives that are read worldwide by everyone from the Wiggin children’s father to the President of the United States. This angle is incredibly important to the story as Peter uses his global power gained through Locke to take over Earth at the end of the book. Just as important is the intentional isolation of Ender in Battle School by the controlling adults of the...
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...Ender's Game vs A series of Unfortunate Events Ender's Game and Unfortunate Events, both seem as if they are so far away that there cannot possibly be similarities between the two, right? Incorrect, the two pieces of writing actually have more in common than meets the eye. Ender’s Game comes from the perspective and life of a young boy who gets chosen to go to a space academy to enlist in a kind of war. In Unfortunate Events it follows three orphans on a journey of miscommunication, confusion, death, and depression. Those descriptions may sound vividly and wildly diverse and could be far from similar, but if we go deeper into the stories, they will prove to be very similar. In Ender’s Game, Ender is taken away from his family, and his...
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...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....
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...Independent Reading Project Analysis Paper: 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 the survival of the human race. Besides the manipulative relationship between the adults and Ender, there are a number of other relationships full of manipulation: Peter manipulates Valentine, Peter and Valentine manipulate the world, and Ender manipulates many other kids throughout the book. Manipulation may sounds negative, but it gets the job done. Deception can involve being tricked by others, or tricking one's self. In Ender’s Game, trickery and false promises are parts of both games and deadly conflicts. Deception can be used to hurt or protect, depending on the intention of the deceptor. In Ender's Game, deception plays many roles. The main use of deception is the adults versus the children. Early on in the novel, it is clear that Ender already realizes adults lie when the subject of the monitor being removed is discussed. The adults are also deceptive when they remove the monitor and allow Ender to think he was not accepted into...
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...In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin, a six-year old genius is able to survive a world that has been created from the constant fear of another attack from the Buggers, aliens who attacked the Earth years before, killing millions. The attack has left the world in fear of another invasion, which shows as the I.F has spent the last 80 years creating a new military of children. The fear leads the people and allows them to grow stronger as well as to defeat their enemy in time. While the war against Earth may not be referred to as the common definition of an apocalypse, it is an apocalypse of sorts. Even though the war against the Buggers did not completely destroy Earth, it completely destroyed the Humans’ lives and their way of living....
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...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, despite being given a green army and the most intense schedule ever given an army. Bonzo's rage turns murderous, and they fight in the...
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...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 him. When he asks why they tell him that all of his missions were real ones against...
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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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