Afghanistan, United States of America, and Iraq are all various places where violence takes place due to various obstacles people face in their lives. People often choose the path of violence because they lack the choice to choose other options thus forming violence as a priority. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott, Ender Wiggins, a boy who is known as a different child since he was a third, was put through various scenarios where he is impacted by the lack of options in order to face everyday problems. Therefore, Ender realizes that the obstacles he faces pushes him to express his emotions in a violent form due to the lack of options.
As Ender faces various obstacles that affect his mental state, he portrays how his use of violent actions is affected by the very few options he has. Firstly, Ender’s pursuit of victory is stalled as it causes him to expose his feelings in a form causing destruction. After playing the level repetitively he thought to himself, “I hate this game. It isn’t fair. It’s stupid. It’s rotten…..He jumped at the giant’s face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the giant’s eye. The stuff came away like cottage cheese, and as the giant screamed, Ender’s finger burrowed into the eye, climbed right in, burrowed in and in,” ( Scott 52 PDF Version). Due to the lack of choices after repetitively losing to the giant, Ender’s next actions were based on violence as he realizes that the giant is trying to affect his feelings thus forming the solution that he must kill in order to pursuit victory. Secondly, Ender’s emotions give away as he faces the obstacle of “overcoming” the game, thus only resulting in his anger being released. Ender grew tired of the complaining as he shouted, “Ender slammed his ope...
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... his entire journey was to prepare for this war however, as he was outnumbered this caused him to use destruction as his only source of hope due to the fact that any other option would result in a disastrous toll upon Ender’s army.
In conclusion, when Ender is put in tight scenarios where he has very few options to choose from, it results with his emotions being expressed in a violent form. As a result, Ender’s mental state is affected by the violent actions taken upon Ender by showing the effect it has on the mind and how it effects one another. The effects upon Ender’s physical state results with him choosing to use violent acts in order to avoid the harm that is brought upon physical combat. Life is always based on decisions and many of these decisions are based on basic emotions like happiness, sadness, etc,however many of them result with others as well.
These two men have a conflict that they do not find themselves in their world. They feel that they do not belong in the world that they are living in. Ender is living in a place where the government controls a system that everyone must follow. Ender does not believe that this system was right for the people. He is fighting with his internal and external conflict. His external conflict involves his struggles to overcome the obstacles places in his path, and the internal conflict is the result of the external that affect his emotional life.
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.
“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.
He uses a combination of Peter’s ruthlessness with Valentine’s compassion. “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him 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” (Card 238). Ender reveals this to Valentine because it is the main reason why he despises himself. Ender first uses his method against Stilson after getting his chip removed. He realizes that with the way Stilson is, the only way to stop him is to cause enough pain to deter retaliation. Learning from his enemies does not only occur on Earth. While being rejected in Salamander Army, Ender studies the good and bad techniques in the battle room. Given that, Ender ultimately beats Bonso once he is in command of his own army. He continues to do this with every person and battle he comes into contact with, making him the best commander at
...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.
During the book ender plays many battle games, intelligence games, and mind games. It basically turns enders life into a game, or saying life is “Ender's game”. Next, there is the part where Ender destroys the Bugger (alien) army he believes it is just a game. The leaders of the schools tell Ender that it is just a simulation, just a game, but really it ends up he is leading the real armies to beat the buggers. Once again there is a game, Ender's game. Throughout the book it is constantly telling you low key that life is Ender’s game, that he can do whatever. Lastly, one of the mind games ender plays ends up being real in real life. In this game ender kills a giant, and explore this magical land. In this land Ender kills a giant and explores the playground area next to a forest where there is this castle. Representing Ender's game, The buggers somehow built this magical land on one of their planets with the giant and castle and
These are the three biggest events that impacted Ender’s mental health. Being traded, getting in a fight, and seeing a picture of his brother.
All of these things were done to create the perfect soldier. They eventually manipulate him one last time when he plays a series of games that he thinks will end the training. Another theme is isolation. From the very beginning of his time at Battle School, Ender is isolated. He is singled out as the smartest in his class.
The method of control is varied from Ender’s brother, who bullies Ender mercilessly; Colonel Graff’s absolute control over Ender’s upbringing and training, even to the point of clearing Ender of murder twice; the alien’s, who control the mind-game to make contact with Ender and to give them a second chance; on to Ender becoming a Speaker of the Dead, atoning for his crimes against life and taking control of his
The part of the book where this is most evident was when Ender was confronted by Bonzo and six other boys in the shower. This was so fascinating because it demonstrates how Ender used Bonzo's honor to face Ender one on one, and give Ender a fighting chance. But, the most fascinating thing about this part of the book is how fast Ender can think on his feet. Before Bonzo started fighting him Ender covered himself in soap so that Bonzo could not grab or hold onto him. Ender wanted to provoke the attack so he began saying to Bonzo “please don't hurt me,” and “I don't want to fight.”Once Ender said this Bonzo lunged at him. After he did this Ender avoided the attack, and hit Bonzo knocking him down. When he was down, Ender kicked him in the groin and Bonzo laid motionless. After Bonzo was kicked, Ender’s friend Dink came in and rushed him out of the showers. The thing that fascinated me so much about Ender in this fight was the way that he used Bonzo's honor in order to fight him alone. Ender did not want to ever have to fight Bonzo again so he wanted to make Bonzo fear him. He did this by kicking him in the groin when he was down. Ender did this to keep himself from ever getting in a situation like this with Bonzo again.
The theme of Ender’s game is to show that pushing someone to the end of their wits can have a good turnout. In the first chapter Ender gets his monitor removed, and then he has to defend himself and fight Stilson. Ender’s whole story is a symbol.
In Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game the main characters and many of the supporting characters go through challenges that break down their minds and physically drain them changing all of them for better or for worse. Some of them go through challenges that test their bodies and minds, but there is one individual that travels through hell and back again. Ender Wiggin the protagonist of the story is described at the beginning of the novel by General Levy as “‘ too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else’s will”’ (1). In just those few sentences General Levy tells the reader how easily manipulated he will be. As the story progresses Ender is constantly changing from a leader, a hero, and a villain influenced by the memories of his siblings ,Peter
Ender Wiggin’s mental state at the beginning of the novel was stable, but his fear of his older brother Peter Wiggin disrupted his state of mind. As the story progressed Ender was no longer afraid of Peter himself, but of the fact that he was soon becoming Peter, the person he most despised of becoming. Ender realizes his transformation in becoming Peter while he was playing one of the mind games, “ in the mirror he saw a face he easily recognized. It was Peter, with blood dripping down his chin and a snake’s tail protruding from a corner of his mouth.” ( Card 193). As the games in Battle and Command School continued he soon started to become mad, because of the pressure caused by commanding his army to victory and trying to live up to the expectations of the school leaders. An example of the stress put on Ender during the school is shown
Stilson, another kid at battle school trying to be better than everyone, always loses to Ender. Once Stilson sees his competition he wants revenge. He wants to get anyone who is better than him out of his way. Stilson gets his friends together and traps Ender in a science lab to get payback. Instead of simply deciding on a strategy to win this fight, he looks at the situation in a whole new light. Even though Ender is unprepared and outnumbered, he has the ability to quickly evaluate the situation and conclude that the interaction cannot have a happy ending. He chooses not to be the victim anymore. Ender engages Stilson, his school bully in a fight and to his surprise he is able to knock him to the ground. “I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse” (Card 78). Why does Ender continue to beat on someone who is no longer a threat? He knows that he must not only win this fight, but he must win all the next ones too. If he does not end this pattern of behavior, it will get increasingly worse, and he will face the same battles every
He just wins—thoroughly.” this shows he is not afraid of taking certain circumstances to win. This shows the reader that ender is a tough and fearsome person. Ender is also a smart character. He works on his strategy because he believes that you must be smarter than the enemy. He thinks often about what he's about to do before he does it. He also encourages others to think about their decisions and be smart. ““I need you to be clever,