Traumatic Events In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

Traumatic Events Sometimes there are things that can change a person, called a traumatic event. A traumatic event is defined as an incident that causes either physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological harm to oneself. This occurs in the novel, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card in which a dystopian world is brought to justice with the annihilation of a whole alien species, by one child. Within the contents of this text, Card illustrates how traumatic events will change a person, sometimes changing for the better. He achieves this message through his main character, Ender Wiggin. This is shown most importantly, once Ender realizes that he has been lied to, and manipulated into killing off an alien species, without even knowing

The Speaker for the Dead is centered around the idea that once a person dies, they will not be celebrated for all their glory they may of assumed over a lifetime, but for the person they truly were. Toward the end of the novel, Ender just wants to leave, and travel from world to world, spreading the word of the Speaker for the Dead. He even starts signing not his name, but instead signing Speaker for the Dead. It is said through the narration of the novel, “The book Ender wrote. . . it was all the good and all the evil the hive-queen knew. . .” (Card 322). In this narration of the story, Card is stating that the reason Ender decided to create, and become the Speaker for the Dead as a way of showing his remorse for killing off the entire bugger species. Ender knew that the queen bugger had somehow known all the terrible things that had happened to Ender throughout his lifetime, through his constant battle surrounding the lying and manipulation that forced him to do wrong. He was able to figure that out earlier in the novel when it is discovered that the buggers recreated The Giant’s Drink mind game, to taunt Ender once he arrived at the world they once called home. By doing this the buggers basically told Ender that they knew what was going on, and they were more intelligent then the humans had known. This means that the humans could have possibly figured out a way to communicate with the buggers. If only they had figured out a way, the war would of probably ended. By the buggers recreating The Giant’s Drink game, Ender knows that he must travel to the end, and that is where he finds the white cocoon containing the new queen bugger. Card includes this imagery, and scene in the novel to display the remorse, and pain Ender feels for what not only his commanders, and generals made him do, but also the rest of