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
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Book Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Summary: The setting of this story is many years in the future during a time of intergalactic war. An alien race called the Formics attacked the humans 50 years before the beginning of the story. The humans won that war but the Formics have regrouped and have been preparing to strike again. The humans have been preparing for the second attack by taking the brightest children of Earth into a special school, called Battle School
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In her essay “Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game”, for Ender’s World, Hilari Bell expresses that Ender wasn’t successful because he was so great, but because of the friendships and alliances he made based purely on empathy: “True strength comes not from being the best- which Ender was- but from the alliances, teamwork, friendship… and the losers” (83).These friends are the squadron leaders who help him in defeating the buggers. They were the people he trusted, the out castes, but they came together
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occurrences of compassion throughout the book. In the novel Ender’s Game the author Orson Scott Card uses foreshadowing to strongly support the theme of compassion that is portrayed by Ender. In this novel there are multiple occasions where the theme compassion is expressed by Ender. The game tends to mess with Ender’s mind and memories. Ender’s most precious memories are of his sister, Valentine, and they know that so it is used to Ender’s disadvantage when expressed in the book, “As always the serpent
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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