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…
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
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
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.
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...
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...
...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.
“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 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
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
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.
In Ender’s game the kids they use to fight come out differently than they came in and it affects them in a negative way. For example on page 161 the book says, “Ender wanted to undo his taunting of the boy”. In the quote Ender taunted the kid and did not stop after he realized what he had been doing was wrong. Before Ender entered the program it seemed like he hated bullies and would not approve of
A child's innocent is their worst enemy, and yet it should never be taken from them . In the view of the young boy he observes something quite unique that he has never seen before from most students around his age in Battle School, that they all “(...) act like – history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus” (110). Ender compares the students from Battle School to his classmates back at home (Earth). Remembering that back on Earth the kids always were loud, played around, and said dumb things, and seeing that the students in Battle School acted like little adults, he couldn't understand how. With this in mind, Ender is a child, who doesn’t comprehend the truth behind the image. He is looking at something unknown as any child would be,
Graff betrays Ender's trust when Ender truly believes Graff is on his side. He expresses to Graff "'I thought you were my friend.' Despite himself, Ender's voice trembled" (Card 34). Ender had just learned that Graff is not a trustworthy person, after he had taken a liking to and put trust in Graff, leading Ender to internally struggle later with the issue of who to trust. This internal conflict Ender struggles with has been established by the introduction of trust, and further develops the theme of trust by demonstrating what the effect of betrayal does to a person. "'Excellent. At least I have one soldier who can figure things out.' Ender could see resentment growing in the way the other soldiers shifted their weight and glanced at each other, the way they avoided looking at Bean" (161). Ender uses the same tactics Graff used to control Bean, by making the soldiers distrustful and resentful of Bean; although the soldiers do not speak to Bean, there is silent conflict growing in the atmosphere. The conflict that Ender creates between Bean and the soldiers demonstrates how distrust of someone can affect the level of respect given to them. The internal struggle of learning that one cannot be trusted and the external conflict that arises between a betrayer and a victim is demonstrated in Ender's Game, developing the theme of
...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.
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:
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.