Imagine if you were just a six year old and school just finished. You can’t wait to get home and hang out with your siblings. So you start to get get ready to leave but there was one thing that was impromptu. The school bully comes at you and attacks you. This is what happened to Ender Wiggins in the beginning in Ender’s Game. It’s not a good feeling to be attacked physically and verbally. But something overcame Ender. Out of nowhere Ender feinted and rage which caused him to beat the bully. He somehow managed to injure him very badly. But he was still mad. He was tired of all of the bullying. He was tired of being called names. So he made a choice, he kicked the bully and killed him. His actions gave him an automatic ticket to battle school. After Ender went to battle school, he met a man called Graff. Graff was a very interesting man and he asked a lot of questions but little did Ender know, Graff knew who peter was. Peter is Ender’s brother. Peter is known to be very aggressive and very violent. Most of the questions Graff asked was , “Tell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won”. But I could tell that Graff was making his questions sound very extenuating. This made Ender trust Graff a little bit more. So in this way, Graff can get the info he needs. Ender …show more content…
believes that if he didn't kill the bully, he would have lost the other fights. So he felt decided to kill him. Soon after, Ender became a team leader.
Overtime, people were very ambiguous about how good he was. But his was a very encouraging to him. A little bit of time later, Ender had became a very strong leader. He was always working on making his men better and soon reoriented because he wanted to win all of the battles. But with all of this hard work he put into all of this, Ender became very tired. But he begins to realize that he was being used after he heard this, “There is no war, and they’re just screwing around with us.”. Ender couldn't believe what he just heard. Lots of questions are going through him right now and he felt that he was anathema to graff. This also made Ender very
assimil. Currently. Ender was a bit shocked when he finds out that Graff may have been using him to kill others. He needed to reguist his theories so he can find out the truth. After knowing that Ender himself is being used, He started to doubt himself, which made him substantial. Was all of the comments true? Did Graff just pick him because he ‘better’ than anyone else there? So that leads us to the 3rd quote. “I surprised you once, Ender Wiggin, Why didn’t you destroy me immediately afterward? Just because I looked peaceful? You turned your back on me. Stupid. You have learned nothing. You have never had a teacher.” In this quote, i’m pretty sure someone wasn’t happy about the decision ender made. They obviously wanted a different decision than what Ender has made. But Ender has a heart and he doesn't want to be under control by Graff. So Ender gather up info so he could corroborate his theories. But soon does. He got all of the courage to complete the games and he goes to command school. But Ender could not have done it if he hadn’t block of the haters. And doing so made him successful. Even though Ender went through all of the bullying and torment, He still never gave up. He showed us readers, that we can prove to everyone who doubted us that were are better people than them.
Before Ender got picked to fight the buggers he was just a normal boy he went to school like every other kid, one day he got put in a test and if he passed he would go to battle school in space, Ender eventually passed the test and he had a military personnel come to his door and tell his parents that he passed the test and is going to battle school.
Alexander the Great […] Peter only to detect anger or boredom, the dangerous moods that almost always led to pain. ”(Card) From the passage I can come to the conclusion that Ender has good perception on other people’s behavior and that he feels negatively about Peter. "Let him be the astronaut for once"(Card) Ender always plays the bugger, the weak underdog whilst
In this book, Ender is most particularly manipulated by Graff, the I.F. soldier who watches over him. Even though Graff is secretly Ender’s friend, Colonel Graff is the recipient of a lot of doubt and negativity coming from Ender. The constant belief that Graff is supposedly deceitful pushes Ender to perform better. Now away
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
Leading up to that he faces enemies and obstacles in the form of bigger kids and the games that he wins thoroughly, to the point where he cannot be beat. He always is one set ahead of whatever is thrown at him. Until Ender finds the Bugger Queen pupa.” Reached into the cavity and took out the cocoon.” (Card 321) Here in this scene Ender is going against what we have come to see as part of who he is. He has the intent to allow the Buggers to rebuild and try to live along side of humans. Normally he destroys something so thoroughly that it can never hurt him or the people he is fighting for again. This is perhaps one of the very best examples of the theme that one’s past does not define them or their
No one in this novel could go through what Ender had and still function, so I excluded the internal conflict. Mazer Rackham is a magnificent solider who would do what he can to accomplish his goal. “ A very dull voyage, Ender. Fifty years in space. Officially, only eight years passed for me, but it felt like five hundred.” Mazer had been away from Earth for fifty years, meaning that most of his friends and family have parish, he left everything he knew simply for the betterment of his mission. If Ender was in another major conflict that required sacrifices, he should emulate Mazer Rackham. Ender should be able to make great sacrifices in the future for his goal to be accomplished. Ender should also follow in the steps of Mazer Rackham and have a pupil. Ender has so much knowledge that doesn’t even have to do with warfare, but it would be a waste for Ender's philosophy to die with
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
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:
...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.
Ender Wiggin has been isolated throughout his life from the students at his school on earth, the students at the Battle School and also the teachers in each school. Ender’s peers have always thought he was different since the day he was born. Excluding him, bullying him because he was the “Third Child”, isolating him and making him feel all alone, surrounding him with enemies. An example of this is when Ender thinks “They might even hit him now-- no one could see anymore, and so no one would come to Ender's rescue.” (Card, 5) Ender knew that the government was his only form of protection and would no longer be there to scare off his bullies. Ender was once again surrounded with fear and isolation, fear because there would be no one to watch over him anymore and isolation because he was going to have no one to fall back on; he was all alone once again. The teachers that he had thought he could trust only turned out to betray him. Using him for their ow...
“I’ll tell him the truth were allowed to do that sometimes in emergencies, we can’t plan for everything you know. This quote helps shape another theme, that only through can one have justice. In a lot of cases where Ender is treated unjustly it is because he was lied to. Colonel Graff is the main culprit. In that quote Graff implies they consistently lie to Ender; the truth is a last resort. This demonstrates the central theme of injustice throughout the
He cannot even bother to look back at his past and what he has done. Ender tells Graff that he came to the Battle School, because he’s been in the presence of the brother who he hated but known he has become just like him. He accepts the fact that he has turned into Peter and that there is no going back now. When Ender decides to go to a colony world with Val, she tells him that she feels like Ender is beginning to manipulate her when he breaks down in tears and tells her that he needs help. He says he will do whatever to get her to help (Card Ch. 15). Ender turns to Val as the only person he can trust now, and it seems like she has always been the only person that he can trust. When Ender and Val are together, he lifts up his hand and ask her if she can see the strings. Ender is comparing himself to a puppet that is being controlled by someone, in this case the adults at the Battle School (Card. Ch. 15). Valentine tells Ender that everybody knows who you are, you do not have complete control over your life. There will always be someone or something that is going to boss you around, in this case the government (Card Ch.
...s how Ender has come to except that he is not the Ultimatum and that he can be defeated. I think Graff said this to prepare Ender in case there was disappointment. Ender is a fictional hero because he wanted to help save the human race and make his family proud.
No matter the circumstance, never lose sight of what one truly embodies. In Ender’s Game we meet Ender, a young boy who must take on frank and cruel command of many people.
He makes huge decisions, many of them. He was the main one making the decisions of his life, others life and even the world's existence. All of his decisions for himself and others were all based on not giving up. There were many times when Ender felt like he lost, or like he is done trying, but Ender always succeeds to get thru the battle of life and the battle of the buggers. Whether it was training people to fight ,Him learning to fight, or even his personal life and family. Ender never ceases to give up. But not only Ender was the one not giving up, His sister Valentine, Brother Peter, The Buggers and even the people who train Ender, never give up. Almost everyone has times where they kept pushing to do better than they thought they could. They all suprise and continue to do better every time. They all have such astounding perseverance, it feels unnatural the way they all get thru their own problems so