Ender's Game Theme Essay

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The story Ender’s Game is about a boy named Ender who was chosen to leave earth to go to battle school to pass many test, and win many games commanding a team to become the commander of the last bugger war. Ender spends his whole life playing games and passing tests when he might not even know it. The main theme in Ender’s Game is about how Ender has a hard time realizing games from reality. In the book Ender’s Game, Ender was the one in class that was the best and smartest, when Ender turned six he was asked to join battle school but he knew that he had no choice. Ender was treated like the best by Graff to make the rest of his launch group not like him and to make it even harder on Ender throughout battle school and quickly moved Ender into …show more content…

An example of this was when Ender was on Eros and playing the game, but in reality he was commanding the fleet and destroying the Buggers existence. Another example is when Ender is exploring the Buggers world and starts getting a funny feeling, “... Ender suddenly began to feel an uneasy sense that he had been in this place before.” (page 316) He finds himself discovering a place just like the Giant's drink which was the game he played at battle school and now he was seeing it in real life. “He had played here too many times as a child not not know this place. But it was not possible. The computer in the Battle School could not possibly have seen this place.” (Page 317) the reason this is important to us is the lesson you learn from reading and understanding the book. The lesson you can take from Ender’s Game is for you to not get so addicted to one thing that make it your whole life when there are so many other things you can do. If you started playing video games all day and that's all you did you would start having dreams about it and that where you mind would always be when you can do multiple things at once and never lose track of what you are capital of. In the beginning of the book Ender was a lot sharper thinking wise and was always the smartest and towards the end he wouldn't think of the things he would have thought of

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