The book I read is called Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. This book is the third in a quartet that chronicles the life of a man called Ender and his sister Valentine. In this book, both Ender and Valentine are over 3000 years old thanks to faster-than-light-travel and Einstein’s theory of relativity. Ender is known through out the universe as Ender the Xenocide for destroying the Bugger race 3000 years earlier. His sister Valentine is equally famous for her writings under the name Demonsthes.
The lines that define good and evil are not written in black and white; these lines tend to blur into many shades of grey allowing good and evil to intermingle with each another in a single human being. Man is not inherently good or evil but they are born innocent without any values or sense of morality until people impart their philosophies of life to them. In the words of John Locke: Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes
SUBJECT: Good and evil THEME: The line between good and evil is sometimes unclear, and as a result, people often think that they are doing the right thing when it is actually the wrong action, and vice versa. CHARACTERS: The protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, begins as a six-year-old boy who is always terrorized by his brother. Ender never gives up, even when it seems like everyone is trying to make him fail. He is young, however, which leaves him susceptible to bullies who detest his quick
People do bad things; they could steal some money, break a mirror, or kill an entire alien race to save his people. One boy managed to do it in Enders Game which is a tale of a young boy who will soon find out what his purpose in life is. Ender Wiggin, a six year old boy, is asked to go to battle school to prepare for a 3rd war with an alien race. When all the war stopped; he finds and egg to produce more of the aliens and tries to find a planet for them to live on. This great story was made not
Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict
Childhood innocence contains curiosity, imagination and a carefree fragile mind that has not experienced the cruelty of the world. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game expresses that general isolation causes the loss of childhood. In the novel, Ender’s isolation is caused by the hostile characters at the Battle School, the mind game and the removal of the monitor. All of these elements prevent him from getting close to others, resulting in isolation, also causing the loss of childhood. One of the elements
Ender’s Game: Fear’s Control “The only way to end things completely was to hurt him enough that his fear was stronger than his hate (Page 211).” – Andrew “Ender” Wiggin. Fear and the power of fear are very delicate things. If someone has too much fear, it turns to anger. Not enough fear, and they have no respect. The book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about fear, especially of the unknown, and the controlling power it has. Sometimes fear can come from lies. Lies about what is happening or going
Traycen Shamo, Sam Allen, Addison Ashcroft, Hunter Curtis Mrs. Eves Language -4a https://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=64226 May 8th, 2014 Comparison/Contrast Essay Ender and Peter In the Novel Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, there is one boy who is born to save the world. His name is Ender Wiggin, he was born a third in the world where only two children are allowed per family. Ender’s older brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, where not what the government needed to save the world
Barbara Sher is quoted saying, “Isolation is a dream killer” which is a perfect summation of Ender’s lonely journey through an isolated childhood. Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card about a young boy named Ender Wiggin who is taken from his family at the age of six for rigorous training that ultimately leads the entire human space fleet against the alien race, the Buggers, that threatens to destroy all of mankind. Card makes it clear from the very beginning Ender is alone
EndersGamePaper Paradigms are very powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. Our paradigms, whether correct or incorrect, shape our lives in a profound way. They are the source of our behavior and attitudes and ultimately shape all of our relationships. The power of a paradigm shift, whether it be instantaneous or developmental, allows us to change from one way of seeing the world to another. In the novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, the main character Ender Wiggin
Over eighty years after aliens almost wiped out the human race, international military forces are in the midst of training an army of children in anticipation of a third invasion. As a result of a government-mandated genetic experiment, six year-old Ender Wiggin emerges as the one who is destined to lead the army. Ender is whisked away to an elite military school in outer space to begin his training to become the most genius military leader in history. It is here that Orson Scott Card’s acclaimed
How does war affect humans? Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is about how the war between humans and buggers forcefully changed Ender Wiggin from a genius, who was isolated in school, into a brilliant military commander. He thought the child that the International Fleet wanted was Peter Wiggin, which is Ender’s brother, and not him. Ender's Game is about anti-war because it shows how did Ender's life changed in a bad way, and how the war make him break down and how people did not have a choice to
Ender’s Game is a futuristic novel written by Orson Scott Card, an American writer, in 1977. The book tells the story of Ender Wiggin, a 6 year old child genius, third child of John Paul and Theresa Wiggin. Starting off as a shy and lonely kid, Ender displays none of the traits of a leader, let alone a good leader. Ender is unaware that he is about to be chosen to become a Commander in a war the Human race is engaged to with an Alien Race, called the Formics. Ender progresses through the book from
for the Dead taught me that I have been and will always be my own main character, but that I should read the books of others. Ironically, Ender Wiggin, Ender the Xenocide, and the Speaker for the Dead are all the same person. Ender Wiggin: hero of the world who wiped out the entire Bugger race for the sake of mankind. Ender the Xenocide: the face of evil who slaughtered millions of innocent people just because they were different. Speaker for the Dead: the most understanding and truthful person who
Ender’s parents are revealed to have lied about their own religious and ethnic background” (Day 220). Ender’s whole journey through battle school is one big trick set up by adults. “The ‘hero’ Ender Wiggin, is manipulated by adults into committing Xenocide, the destruction of an entire intelligent alien species; the rest of his life is devoted to expiating this sin” (James 326). Ever since Ender was six years old, he has been manipulated by the military to concentrate on his survival. The military
This creates a scale of justification, a spectrum that Orson Scott Card explores using the Ender series. Card uses the first three books of the series (excluding books from the Shadow series), Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide to explore this concept of the moral justification. Through portrayals of alien species, the government and figures of authority, and his main character Ender, Card reveals various takes on the philosophy of moral justification. At the beginning
entire species. Having found out that he wiped out the entire alien race in an act of xenocide, Ender now hates himself for what he did, although Ender’s teachers admitting it was their fault did make him feel better. In this scenario, manipulation was a good thing, because it accomplished the task at hand and eased the psychological pain that Ender felt. Ender hated the teachers who deceived him into xenocide and thought of them as his enemies, but is it really fair to say that? Their motive was
Blake Hohmann 2001 Radford Rd. Dubuque, IA 52002 12/9/14 Letters for Literature Dear Orson Scott Card, "Hey Blake, you need to go outside" said Mom. "Can't, I'm busy playing video games" I said. "You've been playing for too long today, you need to go outside or read a book". "*Sigh*". "I know you like sci-fi books so I think you should read this book Ender's Game" she said. "Fine..." That's when I started reading your book Ender's Game. I couldn't put the book down after I started
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
concern for the suffering and misfortune of others. Enders strong sense of compassion is clear when he shows his remorse to Graff, the head of Battle School who manipulates Ender on many occasions, after coming to the realization that he committed Xenocide without his knowledge. He is angry and crying while accusing Graff of tricking him, to which Graff replies explaining exactly why they needed to trick him; his compassion: “It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it…. We had to have a commander