Character Analysis Of Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, takes place on future Earth. Earth, successfully defended once from an alien species known as Buggers, is fearful of another assault in the near future. A government known as the International Fleet is recruiting children at the age of six to train to fight against the Bugger race. These children are forced to make decisions no child should ever have to make, and Ender is “lucky” enough to be chosen due to his superior intellect. As a result of Ender’s training, he becomes the commander of the International Fleet at age eleven and destroys the bugger army, successfully committing Xenocide, once and for all. Ender is overcome with grief once he realizes what he has done and wishes he could have found another way to solve the Bugger problem. Being eleven years old, Ender cannot be old

From the start of the novel, a man named Graff is there to push Ender to his limits through mockery, betrayal, purposeful isolation, and the rare display of affection for the young boy. Graff’s role in molding Ender is unparalleled to any other character in the novel, besides Ender himself. Ender must fight through the tests and trials to become the smartest battle strategist in all of history. These tests and trials put a load of stress on Ender that no child his age should ever endure. What the International Fleet puts Ender through is truly criminal; Ender’s mind is filled with horrible plans to kill and destroy, and Ender cannot control the lies that are fed to him. Ender’s moral compass is not fully developed at his age, and he cannot begin to understand the gravity of the actions he makes. The constant falsehoods he is fed leads him to believe what he is doing has some level of normalcy. It is truly a miracle that the soon-to-be weapon Ender survives the whole ordeal and nothing more sinister happens to