Ender The Giant Analysis

Ender has always despised and feared Peter for his short and hot temper. He has always feared becoming his brother one day, so much that if he does anything violent he shrivels at the thought of changing for the worse. During “The Giant”, a game the Ender seemed to devote an odd amount of time to, he looks at the animated children who have begun to laugh at him and thinks to himself how much “[he] wanted to hit them, to throw them into the brook” (Pg. 71). He has began to no longer contain his anger in a calm way, he now only seems to solve his problems with violence, something that I think our humanity has come to, too. Most people have changed from the kind, smiling human beings that previously made up humanity into tough skined souls in order to survive in this world of harm. Fifty years ago, parents didn’t have to worry about their children getting kidnapped during a late night bike ride. Now, adults must go through advanced background checks just to volunteer in their community. In order to survive in this world, you must change, change into a person that knows how humanity really functions.

Children have been tought to never trust anyone that they meet because they never know what secrets that person keeps beneath the surface. For example, take the college student whom was walking around on the University of Texas’s campus late one night. Years ago, she wouldn’t have had to worry about that night being her last. But now, there was always a possibility that her previous breath would be her last, and sadly, one of them was. Humanity is constantly changing, and there is nothing we can do to stop the progression. All us humans can do is change how we see the world and how we react in order to survive in this unhealthily violent