The Command School authorities were justified in how they handled the final evaluation of Ender and his peers. Although their method of tricking Ender’s team into defeating the Buggers was not politically correct, it was extremely effective and lead to success. Ender may have been fit to be a commander due to his killer instinct and intelligence, but he was too young to be mentally ready for such a task. Therefore, the authorities at Command School felt a great need to make the battles seem like a series of tests. In chapter 6 of Ender’s Game, his obsession with a computer game called the Giant’s Drink is mentioned. After Ender manages to overcome an obstacle in the game, he stops playing for a while. However, later in the book, Ender decides to pick up the game again and saw Peter as the Giant. This revelation plagues him in his nightmares and later causes depression where Ender ceases to see the point in life at Battle School. Another source of this depression …show more content…
Even before Battle School, Ender had been bullied by many other students, one of them being a boy named Stilson. At one occasion, Stilson attacked Ender after his monitor had been taken out. In response, Ender reacted aggressively and fought back. Even after he had made his point, Ender continued to beat Stilson, up until he was completely unconscious. Then, at Battle School, a young boy named Bonzo who was jealous of Ender’s abilities decided to fight Ender in the showers. Ender did not respond to this kindly and continued to fight back. Once again, he did not stop until Bonzo had an “empty, dead look in his eyes”. Although he did not mean to, Ender killed both Stilson and Bonzo because they had attacked him first. This proves his killer instinct, but also shows that Ender would not knowingly hurt defenseless people in their home as the authorities wanted Ender to do to the Buggers. Thus, they created a simulation prompting him to win the
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.
The Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card provides understanding of the characters and their relationships with others through indirect characterization and diction. Orson Scott Card uses literacy devices and specific word choice to let the reader draw conclusions about the characters and the relationships between Peter and Ender, the symbolism of the bugger mask/bugger-astronaut game, and the foreshadowing of Peter and Valentines death. The author reveals the relationship between Peter and Ender through Peter’s perception of Ender and the astronaut-bugger game. “Ender did not see Peter as […]
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.
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...
In Orson Scott Cards Ender’s game, the main character Ender does not have a normal childhood compared to other children. He is destined for a hard life ahead of him from the moment he was born. Through Ender and the characters around him Card draws us a picture about the world around us. One’s past does not shape their future or the kind of person they will be. A different choice can be made at any time.
Ender is first shown as intelligent and skillful, and Peter shows the same attributes throughout the story. Ender uses his intellect to triumph over his bullies, and this translates to his experience in the Battle Room. He has to outsmart the enemy, rather than beat them physically, and it worked in his favor the majority of the time. Ender understands when he has to use his physicality to beat a bully, but also knows when he has to strategize to avoid a certain situation. When Ender is encountered by Bonzo after he won the battle by disobeying Bonzo’s orders, he has to use his judgement rather than his fists to get what he wants. Ender argued with Bonzo, “‘... I’ll pretend that you won this argument. Then tomorrow you can tell me you changed your mind.’ ‘I don’t need you to tell me what to do.’ ‘I don’t want the other guys to think you backed down. You wouldn’t be able to command as well’” (Card 87). Ender understands what his enemy, in this case Bonzo, wants, and knows how he can make both of them get what they want. He doesn’t resolve to violence when he knows that he can use a different method that benefits him. Ender’s intelligence and strategizing helps him overcome the difficulty he approaches throughout his life. Peter also uses his intellect to benefit himself throughout the events that happen.
After reading this book, Ender was responsible, though many would disagree at this thought. As an adult being responsible is important, adults have to be responsible for waking up early in the morning for work. Adults also have to be leaders and examples to younger people. Decisions is also an example of responsibility that an adult have to make. All these three examples tie back to Enders responsibility he has to make in the battle school.
Throughout the novel, Ender gradually begins to realize that he is not so different from his brother Peter. Ender grew up being punished and beaten up just for being a third who was smarter than Peter. This explains why Ender wants nothing to do with him when he leaves home. The mind game periodically reminds Ender that he is not completely different from him through certain levels. On the first obstacle that proved difficult, he brutally
In the story “Ender's Game” many interesting actions and events happen. From wars to death, to games, that are not games anymore. This story is about a young boy that lives in a world that is constantly under attack from extraterrestrials called the Buggers. In the beginning, Ender is just a young boy constantly controlled and watched by the government (The IF). In the middle, he is taken to battle school and there the people realize that he is the best person for the job and will lead the human race to victory over the Buggers. Lastly, the IF puts Ender and his group together to beat the buggers in a final war. The book “Ender’s Game” written by Orson Scott Card is a fun and exciting science fiction book that leaves the reader at the edge of its seat. The symbolism and hidden messages in the book make the reader connect to the story. The title, the characters, and the setting all have something more to bring to the table and change
... he commanded his own platoon. Those are phases Ender went through. During one battle he faced, he cheated. Page 218 describes Ender’s men passed through the gate without soldiers before the gate was reversed. He had to cheat because he was exhausted and he needed assistance. Ender was battling two teams at once, never done before at battle school.. Finally every game has a final stage or battle. In Ender’s Game the final battle was against the buggers. Ender fights them on page 297. Ender was actually tricked into fighting them. This point proves how life is a game because games have a final battle/stage and Ender fought in one. Ender as a game piece, cheating and fighting in a final stage/battle prove how life is a game.
In chapters one to four in Ender’s Game, many important events occurred. In the first chapter, the author introduces Ender and informs the reader that he will be trained to become the greatest military commander of all time. Then, Ender returns home, after his monitor being taken away, and interacts with his brother, Peter, who threatens Ender that he will easily kill him one day. Later on, Colonel Graff, the director of Battle School, introduces himself at Ender’s house and offers him a chance to be trained in Battle School and eventually convinces Ender to join. As the plot progresses, Ender is shown entering Battle School and his experience with zero gravity. Little does he know, that every move Ender takes is being observed by Graff and
Enders shows this when Bonzo again ordered him to this time back off and to not shoot during the battle against the other army in the Battle room. At the very end of the battle Ender once again shows his courage by disobeying his commanders orders and taking part in the battle. This shows that Ender makes decisions for what he feels is right, even if that means to break rules. He decided to disobey Bonzo to save Salamander army from a loss, if this was another solider in Salamander army they would have listened because of the fear of Bonzo. Ender demonstrates this again at the very end of the book, Ender decides to help the Buggers find a new home even when he knew that helping the Buggers was against the rules of the International fleet. Ender does this because he realizes that the buggers were innocent and that they only came to Earth to colonize, the humans on the other side decided to kill all the Buggers and Ender himself played a huge role of killing the Bugger colony. The guilt gets to Ender and he decides to save the Bugger population by finding a new planet for
Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is a novel about a genius boy who has his life turned around at the age of six when he is invited to go to Battle School. Battle School is a place where not so ordinary children are shaped into soldiers to fight against the buggers, an alien species that attacked Earth. Andrew Wiggin, better known as Ender, trains non-stop to become an unstoppable force against the buggers. What Ender doesn’t know is that Colonel Graff has chosen him to be the commander of the elite force against the buggers. Ender changed his toughness, his intelligence, and his leadership dramatically throughout the novel
Ender, on the other hand, is just a child when he is taken away from his family to be trained as a soldier to fight an alien civilization that is known as "buggers." These buggers have invaded Earth twice before and it is feared that they will invade again. It is believed that Ender is the only one who will be able to defeat the buggers. He is taken up into space to be trained at a battle school which teaches students the art of combat in space. Once he passes the tests that are set before him, Ender moves on to combat school where he learns to be a comandor and faces his last test...
In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card he introduces Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the third in a family of child geniuses, is selected by international military forces to save the world from destruction. Before being chosen Ender wears a device called a monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, and they didn’t have it for as long as Ender, and Peter hates Ender for this. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.