Ender's Game Good Vs Evil

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“ Individual human beings are all tools that others use to help us all survive.” This is a quote from Ender’s Game, a novel where we commonly see two main themes addressed: the concepts of good and evil and manipulation. Most novels tend to take standard, generic views of these topics, but Ender’s Game is not one of those novels.
Good and evil, we typically see them addressed as separate entities, but in Ender’s Game, they are one and the same. For example, in the beginning of the book, we think that the humans are good and that the aliens are evil incarnate. However, at the end of the book it turns out that the aliens were sorry for what they had done and hoped that mankind would forgive them for their transgressions. Mankind subsequently …show more content…

You might not ever know who or what is manipulating you, but you must ask yourself two questions: Is manipulating others ever okay? Is it fair to say that someone who manipulates you is your enemy? Ender is supreme commander of the human armada during the war. Although granted such a prestigious title, Ender doesn’t realize it has been given to him. He thinks that he is still in training and that he is commanding ships in simulators, but he is actually commanding real ships. Every mistake he makes costs the lives of real soldiers. Ender’s teachers manipulate him by telling him that it is all a game, but was that really evil? After all, Ender’s teachers only tricked him to protect him from himself. They knew that Ender was too compassionate to willingly wipe out an 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 to protect Ender, so even

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