A Powerful Leader In Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card

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In the book Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. It shows that to be a successful leader one must be ruthless, strategic and strict. Whenever Ender has fought a battle he has either killer or beat the enemy so ruthlessly that the enemy won’t even have to think twice whether to attack Ender or not After, Ender wrecks Stilson, as his justification to Graff he says, “I have to win this for now and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”(7) So basically ender is trying to explain that if he gets in a fight he will beat one of the total number of enemies so bad that all the other enemies will just run away of fear. Ender beat up Stilson by first beating him to the ground, and when he is on the ground he still keeps on kicking Stilson even though it states in the book that he knew that “It …show more content…

As ender is coming back from his battle with rabbit army, he said to himself, “Let the boys learn that leniency comes from their toon leaders, and harshness comes from their commander.”(180) Ender wants to be a strict commander. Ender is a strict commander because he would make his army practice for hours and take no excuses whatsoever. Ender is a strict commander because he wants his team to be the most elite of all, he wants the best for his team so they can handle any challenge he or Graff throws at them. Afterwards in the book Graff gives them 2 battles everyday like never before and Ender’s army could handle all of it for quite a long time so all the training paid off. Ender is a very strict leader and does not care whether or not his army get’s along. When Ender got his first army, Dragon Army, immediately after he saw his soldiers he straight away took them to training and didn’t even bother to introduce himself or learn about his soldiers. So, overall Ender is a very strict leader in a positive way always thinking what would be best for his

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