Ender's Game Injustice Quotes

“Were like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.” In this quote evil masquerades as mentor. Card employs symbolism to comment on the injustice in authoritarian systems. Ender innately understands and fights against injustice, he fails as often as he succeeds but overcomes eventually. Ender’s struggle relates to a central theme of the work, Injustice is omnipresent in most military based societies.
Enders search for justice is a nearly impossible one it is characterized by authority. Card uses the authority figures in Enders Game to demonstrate the injustice that makes Ender’s life difficult. At one point ender says, “It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.”

For example, “I can’t help that I’m bigger than you. If you’re such a genius, figure out how to handle me yourself.” This saying by Bonzo (one of the people Ender fights) helps shape the theme that, injustice can only be applied by an aggressor. This theme is used constantly throughout the book. Ender finds that he is sometimes the aggressor in times when he is attacking the enemy ships or friends in a simulated war game. More often though he is on the defensive. Ender didn’t decide he wanted to fight someone bigger that him but as the aggressors they don’t give him agency to choose whether or not to fight. One of his oppressors says “I’ll lie to him” “And if that doesn’t work” “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