Life Challenges: Ender's Game, The Miracle Worker, and The Veldt

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All human beings cope with different challenges in life. These challenges can be emotional, mental, financial, social, or spiritual. The challenges in life learned in this course will be examined in different literary works such as novels, plays, and short stories. Isolation and conflicts are the challenges involved in Ender’s Game. Then, The Miracle Worker deals with reaching out someone and to an individual with a disability. Finally, conflict involving technology is evident in The Veldt. The challenges revealed in different works of literature are essential because they enable people to develop human qualities that give them opportunities to succeed and move forward.
In Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card, many people meet many challenges that make them move forward. One of the challenges involved in this novel is isolation. Graff isolates Ender, the protagonist, because he has an excellent mind (Card 34). In addition, the World Government trusts Ender to defeat the buggers, which will destroy the entire human race, in the next invasion (Card 34). Therefore, isolation makes him prepare to become a stronger person. Another challenge discovered in this novel is the struggle between Ender and Bonzo. According to Card, Ender gains respect from his friends, since he wins the battle between Ender’s Dragon’s army and Bonzo’s Salamander’s army (Card 181-182). As a matter of fact, Bonzo cannot accept the lost (Card 195). Prior to Ender’s leadership in his army, Bonzo is cruel, he gives a lot of orders, and one incident is when he has slapped Ender for disobeying him (Card 77, 86-87, 95). One day, after the battle, Bonzo and his friends surround Ender in the shower room and plan to kill him (Card 207-208)...

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... out and hoping to make connections to the real world because these will make a difference to the world, and enable the characters in real-life to never give up. Furthermore, The Veldt narrates the disadvantages of being obsessed in the use of technology. This teaches everyone that their loved ones are more important than technology considering it can bring fear and danger to everyone. Facing challenges in life is important in order to build a strong moral character as a human being, help everyone to become a successful person, and these bring to have a meaning of life Remember, life is full of challenges and tomorrow will be a new day for success.

Works Cited

Bradbury, Ray. The Veldt. N/A: N.p., N.d.Print
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game. New York: Tom Doherty Associates Inc., 1991. Print
Gibson, William. The Miracle Worker. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1975. Print

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