Ender’s Game In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s the central government of china created the one-child policy, the purpose of the one-child policy was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. Throughout the book Ender’s Game, they had a policy similar to the china policy that the central government had created. In the book the standards of having a third child was greatly discouraged and frowned upon. When Ender was 6 years old, he was separated from his loving sister Valentine and his Terrifying brother Peter and brought to battle school. Arriving at battle school, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult challenges. Ender is trained by Mazer Rackham to lead his fellow soldiers …show more content…
The second major element that took place was when Ender starts to make independent choices and decisions that overrule his battle school commander. The last major event that took place in the novel Ender’s Game was when Ender is convinced to go into training to fight the Buggers to help keep humanity alive in the world. Enders decision to go to battle school was because he wants to be safe, mostly because he wants to keep his sister valentine safe and also because that was his role as a “third” child in the society. Ender says, “ I am trapped here, Ender thought, trapped at the End of the world with no way out.” (Scott Card, p.141). This hints Ender’s feeling towards his lack of control of his own life, but also he fears that at the end he will run out of ideas and not be able to win the battle. When Ender starts to make his own decisions that overrule his commander; Ender becomes the leader of his own army group. His success is resented by others and he continues to win battles. Ender says “In the very moment when i truly understand my enemy, understand him very well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment i also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” (Scott Card, p.238. In this quote ender is explaining what happens to him when he fights. This quote also foreshadows event that took place with the bugger. Lastly the last major event was when Ender graduates and tried to leave the military behind; and is convinced to go into training to fight the buggers to help keep humanity alive. Ender says, “ I didn’t want to kill them all. i didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! you didn’t want me , you bastards, you wanted peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it” (Scott Card, p.321). In
Before Ender got picked to fight the buggers he was just a normal boy he went to school like every other kid, one day he got put in a test and if he passed he would go to battle school in space, Ender eventually passed the test and he had a military personnel come to his door and tell his parents that he passed the test and is going to battle school.
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
They wanted Ender to see that it was a game because this would insure that the humans would be victorious over the buggers. Because of this, Ender has suffered a great ordeal of losses in everything such as life, love, family, and friendship. At this point of my explanation, we can clearly see that Ender does suffice enough to be a Christ Figure because he began his journey with a full heart and now he is ending his journey with nothing left but a new world to live in with Valentine, while trying to find a safe place for the Queen Bugger to live. This is his last and most important mission of all. It looks like as if Ender is beginning a whole new journey. Truth be told, Ender is done, but he has that final step to go before he can call out to home and finally live the rest of days free of
Leading up to that he faces enemies and obstacles in the form of bigger kids and the games that he wins thoroughly, to the point where he cannot be beat. He always is one set ahead of whatever is thrown at him. Until Ender finds the Bugger Queen pupa.” Reached into the cavity and took out the cocoon.” (Card 321) Here in this scene Ender is going against what we have come to see as part of who he is. He has the intent to allow the Buggers to rebuild and try to live along side of humans. Normally he destroys something so thoroughly that it can never hurt him or the people he is fighting for again. This is perhaps one of the very best examples of the theme that one’s past does not define them or their
Ender’s game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott card it was published in 1985. This book is in the future when in the story earth has been invaded by an alien race and is almost destroyed by the invasion but wins the battle and to prevent earth from being destroyed if they return they create the International fleet which recruits kids an teaches them to be commanders. The chapter that I am going to analyze is chapter one which is called Third. This chapter shows how Ender is being manipulated since the start and how he has to deal with being different by being a third.
Therefore, Ender shows the reader that he takes responsibility as an adult for just waking up early and on time for his battles. Therefor, Ender taking that responsibility must be hard since he's just a kid and has to be responsible for
After years of being monitored by government officials, Ender Wiggins, the main character of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, finds himself completely alone. The loneliness set's in as he finds himself in a new school, away from the watchful eyes of the government and bared to the world. He is a Third. This feeling of being a third makes Ender feel even more isolated, "It was not his fault he was a Third. It was the government's idea, they were the ones who authorized it - how else could a Third like Ender have got into school?" (Card 5). There was no one there to keep the bullies away now. Although he never really liked the monitor, he now found himself alone and missing the advent ages of having it on and knowing that someone, somewhere was always with him and watching him. At battle school, Ender knows that he will be isolated from the other students. Colonel Graff tells the other students of Ender and how superior his talents and intelligence is compared to the rest of the group. The other students don't like Ender and don't trust him. Throughout battle school, Ender is kept from his family and isolated from other children.
After much internal debate Ender decides to go to battle school and leave home. He knows he won’t see his family until he is at least 12 but most likely he will have to wait until he is 16. When Ender is inside the ship on the way to battle school, the adults start their manipulation game. Graff calls out Ender as the only one who will save mankind, making the other kids hate Ender and become envious. Ender already lost the chance at having a normal childhood when he was born a third, but he was also considered to be the chosen one to save mankind from the very beginning. The manipulation of Ender is shown through the book and the children at the school either take part in his abuse or ignore the adults who cause it. Through this abusive training tactic Ender becomes the skilled fighter and leader the government wants. Ender gets moved through the program fast. He gets to the command school at age 9, a school no one can go to until they are sixteen. The adults tell him he will be doing simulations to practice the attacks on the buggers, but after the last simulation he finds out he killed the entire bugger species. The novel shows Ender to be morally innocent throughout his story, but he takes on the guilt of xenocide of the buggers. He is shocked at what he did, even when he didn’t know what he’s doing. Ender loses his innocence at this moment. He knew he was being manipulated by the adults throughout his career at the battle schools, but he had no idea he was being manipulated into exterminating a whole race. When he realizes what he did he goes into another depression slump and does not come out of his room for days. He doesn’t understand why he was manipulated into what he
Ender Wiggin has been isolated throughout his life from the students at his school on earth, the students at the Battle School and also the teachers in each school. Ender’s peers have always thought he was different since the day he was born. Excluding him, bullying him because he was the “Third Child”, isolating him and making him feel all alone, surrounding him with enemies. An example of this is when Ender thinks “They might even hit him now-- no one could see anymore, and so no one would come to Ender's rescue.” (Card, 5) Ender knew that the government was his only form of protection and would no longer be there to scare off his bullies. Ender was once again surrounded with fear and isolation, fear because there would be no one to watch over him anymore and isolation because he was going to have no one to fall back on; he was all alone once again. The teachers that he had thought he could trust only turned out to betray him. Using him for their ow...
· Staged in mainly four places. Ender Wiggins childhood town, where he is monitored as a prospective third. He is sent to Battle School, which is a satellite of the earth. Then he ends up on Eros where he attends command school and eventually defeats the buggers. He spends the rest of his days with Valentine on the first human colonization, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth.
The first event that changed Ender was being traded to the rats. This disassembled what Ender had tried so hard to get used to. The second event was Ender getting in a fight. This changed the way Ender saw himself and gave him a reputation. Finally, the third event was when Ender saw his brother Peter in the mirror on the game.
The primary goal of the education system was to breed great soldiers. Spartan citizens were obligated to be great soldiers. Babies were judged early on to see if they were fit for their duty as a soldier. In fact, “All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren’t up to standards were left to die.” (History.com) This is similar to Ender’s Game, because Ender’s birth was requisitioned by the government. He is considered a “third”, in a society where only two children are allowed in each family. While his brother tested to be too violent and his sister a too mild temperament, Ender was bred in hopes that he would be the perfect mix of the two. Before Ender was born his parents signed an agreement with the government that if Ender qualified as a soldier he was military property, or he could not have been born. Since Ender was only born to fulfill the government’s needs, he feels that his only purpose is to go to Battle School and train to be in the army. Ender says, “‘It’s what I was born for, isn’t it? If I don’t go, why am I alive?’”(Card, pg. 26) Revealing his natural obligation to the military, just like the Spartan
In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Enders Game, at the age of six, Ender is chosen by Colonel Graff and the International Fleet to help save mankind from the buggers. However, through his journey, he experiences manipulation and deception from significant figures that surround his life. This deceit from Colonel Graff, Valentine, and Mazor Rackham is focused on defeating the buggers in the Third Invasion.
I would recommend Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card because it is an intriguing storyline set in the future on Earth. It is easy to read because it holds your interest and I think that many others besides me would enjoy this masterpiece. I believe that the themes in the novel are universal. Some of the themes I came across were compassion, love and kindness. These themes are universal because many people from all cultures and stages of life encounter these themes often daily. Compassion, for example, is an important emotion required for us to empathise and care for other around us. Without compassion, life on planet earth would be dismal and unhappy.
...is enemy, he became the most ruthless and yet most compassionate commander the world has ever seen in all the wars the human race has withstood. Above all, however, isolation is the tool that made all the attributes transparent and viable to Ender and to the I.F. Beyond the war, Ender became more than just a tool to be used; he became a savior. A savior of not only one, but two different races bent on destroying each other. Ender became the very definition of Hope.