Ender's Game Analysis

Allowing children to play games, such as imaginary war, or a lifelike video game such as Call Of Duty, is both a good thing and a bad thing in our society. The games teach the children how to use self defense, yes. However, they are still children and should be treated as such and should be able to live their life as innocently as possible. The real world is a cruel place and when children are still in the oblivious state of what is really going on around, we should let them stay that way for as long as possible. However, the children do need to know how to survive, in any case of emergency it is better to know the basics rather than know nothing at all.

For example, in the novel “Ender’s Game” the main character is a six year old boy who is in a world where war is one of the most well-known things in their society. In this society, children are raised to be able to fight and survive and have no true childhood other than what they have to learn in order to survive in a worse case scenario. In this story the children don’t have the normal activities such as going

The children there don’t all have the chance to be a kid, from the minute they are able to walk and talk they are taught that they have to survive from then and until they die. The kids over there can’t play freeze tag or swing on the swing sets, or go out and have play dates with the other kids in their town. Children overseas have seen war and seen their families have to leave them. These children also have to go fight themselves, whether it be because of religion or just for the sake of them hopefully surviving. The children going into war at such a young age is terrible, and even some adults can’t even begin to imagine what the children would and have seen. No child should have to see things that even adults can’t see