Ender's Game Character Analysis

In Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game the main characters and many of the supporting characters go through challenges that break down their minds and physically drain them changing all of them for better or for worse. Some of them go through challenges that test their bodies and minds, but there is one individual that travels through hell and back again. Ender Wiggin the protagonist of the story is described at the beginning of the novel by General Levy as “‘ too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else’s will”’ (1). In just those few sentences General Levy tells the reader how easily manipulated he will be. As the story progresses Ender is constantly changing from a leader, a hero, and a villain influenced by the memories of his siblings ,Peter

At school he is bullied for being a third child which is considered socially unacceptable and having made it so far in the program made him a target to other students. After sending a kid to the hospital in self defense Colonel Hyrum Graff confronts Ender at his home and says to him“‘Tell me why you kept on kicking him. You had already won.” “ Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too”’(19). In that conversation the Colonel was sure that Ender had passed his test and tells Ender's parents what he meant when he said “‘It isn’t what he did, Mrs.Wiggin. It’s why”’(19). Ender at the beginning of the novel is much closer to his sister’s personality inside him while his brother’s personality he tries to keep quiet. Even though he does his best to hide it it is constantly looming and that is the side that the military wants to uncover. The military wants what Ender states to Colonel Graff “‘To be half Peter and half Valentine”’(24). Throughout the story the International Fleet gains a little more than they bargained for as Ender slowly grows into an emotionless