The Command School authorities were justified in how they handled the final evaluation of Ender and his peers. Although their method of tricking Ender’s team into defeating the Buggers was not politically correct, it was extremely effective and lead to success. Ender may have been fit to be a commander due to his killer instinct and intelligence, but he was too young to be mentally ready for such a task. Therefore, the authorities at Command School felt a great need to make the battles seem like a series of tests. In chapter 6 of Ender’s Game, his obsession with a computer game called the Giant’s Drink is mentioned. After Ender manages to overcome an obstacle in the game, he stops playing for a while. However, later in the book, Ender decides to pick up the game again and saw Peter as the Giant. This revelation plagues him in his nightmares and later causes depression where Ender ceases to see the point in life at Battle School. Another source of this depression …show more content…
Even before Battle School, Ender had been bullied by many other students, one of them being a boy named Stilson. At one occasion, Stilson attacked Ender after his monitor had been taken out. In response, Ender reacted aggressively and fought back. Even after he had made his point, Ender continued to beat Stilson, up until he was completely unconscious. Then, at Battle School, a young boy named Bonzo who was jealous of Ender’s abilities decided to fight Ender in the showers. Ender did not respond to this kindly and continued to fight back. Once again, he did not stop until Bonzo had an “empty, dead look in his eyes”. Although he did not mean to, Ender killed both Stilson and Bonzo because they had attacked him first. This proves his killer instinct, but also shows that Ender would not knowingly hurt defenseless people in their home as the authorities wanted Ender to do to the Buggers. Thus, they created a simulation prompting him to win the
The Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card provides understanding of the characters and their relationships with others through indirect characterization and diction. Orson Scott Card uses literacy devices and specific word choice to let the reader draw conclusions about the characters and the relationships between Peter and Ender, the symbolism of the bugger mask/bugger-astronaut game, and the foreshadowing of Peter and Valentines death. The author reveals the relationship between Peter and Ender through Peter’s perception of Ender and the astronaut-bugger game. “Ender did not see Peter as […]
Before Ender got picked to fight the buggers he was just a normal boy he went to school like every other kid, one day he got put in a test and if he passed he would go to battle school in space, Ender eventually passed the test and he had a military personnel come to his door and tell his parents that he passed the test and is going to battle school.
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
Leading up to that he faces enemies and obstacles in the form of bigger kids and the games that he wins thoroughly, to the point where he cannot be beat. He always is one set ahead of whatever is thrown at him. Until Ender finds the Bugger Queen pupa.” Reached into the cavity and took out the cocoon.” (Card 321) Here in this scene Ender is going against what we have come to see as part of who he is. He has the intent to allow the Buggers to rebuild and try to live along side of humans. Normally he destroys something so thoroughly that it can never hurt him or the people he is fighting for again. This is perhaps one of the very best examples of the theme that one’s past does not define them or their
After reading this book, Ender was responsible, though many would disagree at this thought. As an adult being responsible is important, adults have to be responsible for waking up early in the morning for work. Adults also have to be leaders and examples to younger people. Decisions is also an example of responsibility that an adult have to make. All these three examples tie back to Enders responsibility he has to make in the battle school.
After years of being monitored by government officials, Ender Wiggins, the main character of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, finds himself completely alone. The loneliness set's in as he finds himself in a new school, away from the watchful eyes of the government and bared to the world. He is a Third. This feeling of being a third makes Ender feel even more isolated, "It was not his fault he was a Third. It was the government's idea, they were the ones who authorized it - how else could a Third like Ender have got into school?" (Card 5). There was no one there to keep the bullies away now. Although he never really liked the monitor, he now found himself alone and missing the advent ages of having it on and knowing that someone, somewhere was always with him and watching him. At battle school, Ender knows that he will be isolated from the other students. Colonel Graff tells the other students of Ender and how superior his talents and intelligence is compared to the rest of the group. The other students don't like Ender and don't trust him. Throughout battle school, Ender is kept from his family and isolated from other children.
Ender is first shown as intelligent and skillful, and Peter shows the same attributes throughout the story. Ender uses his intellect to triumph over his bullies, and this translates to his experience in the Battle Room. He has to outsmart the enemy, rather than beat them physically, and it worked in his favor the majority of the time. Ender understands when he has to use his physicality to beat a bully, but also knows when he has to strategize to avoid a certain situation. When Ender is encountered by Bonzo after he won the battle by disobeying Bonzo’s orders, he has to use his judgement rather than his fists to get what he wants. Ender argued with Bonzo, “‘... I’ll pretend that you won this argument. Then tomorrow you can tell me you changed your mind.’ ‘I don’t need you to tell me what to do.’ ‘I don’t want the other guys to think you backed down. You wouldn’t be able to command as well’” (Card 87). Ender understands what his enemy, in this case Bonzo, wants, and knows how he can make both of them get what they want. He doesn’t resolve to violence when he knows that he can use a different method that benefits him. Ender’s intelligence and strategizing helps him overcome the difficulty he approaches throughout his life. Peter also uses his intellect to benefit himself throughout the events that happen.
Throughout the novel, the adults use the children's innocence in order to manipulate them. To begin, the adults cover their true identities, as controlling personnel, by portraying themselves as good people to the children. While Colonel Graff and Anderson are conversing they say, "' I like the kid. I think we're going to screw him up.' 'Of course we are. It's our job. We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive'". (Card 10) The adults explicitly state that they use the children's innocence to control them, they display one thing but have an outcome of another. By choosing methods of manipulation that appeal to children, the adults influence the children’s actions as they do things they naturally wouldn’t perform. Furthermore, the adults control every component of the soldier's lives. While reflecting Ender says, "I've spent my life as someone's pawn"(312). The adults choose Ender’s ultimate fate and every other small factor. They have an upper hand in their relationship, hence Ender refers to them as the chess player determining each of his moves. Furthermore, the adults use Ender’s obliviousness to manipulate him to reach their life goal. After the battle with the Buggers, Mazer explains, “You had to be a weapon, Ender. Like a gun, like the little doctor, functioning perfectly but not knowing what you were aimed at. We a...
In the story “Ender's Game” many interesting actions and events happen. From wars to death, to games, that are not games anymore. This story is about a young boy that lives in a world that is constantly under attack from extraterrestrials called the Buggers. In the beginning, Ender is just a young boy constantly controlled and watched by the government (The IF). In the middle, he is taken to battle school and there the people realize that he is the best person for the job and will lead the human race to victory over the Buggers. Lastly, the IF puts Ender and his group together to beat the buggers in a final war. The book “Ender’s Game” written by Orson Scott Card is a fun and exciting science fiction book that leaves the reader at the edge of its seat. The symbolism and hidden messages in the book make the reader connect to the story. The title, the characters, and the setting all have something more to bring to the table and change
Ender Wiggin has been isolated throughout his life from the students at his school on earth, the students at the Battle School and also the teachers in each school. Ender’s peers have always thought he was different since the day he was born. Excluding him, bullying him because he was the “Third Child”, isolating him and making him feel all alone, surrounding him with enemies. An example of this is when Ender thinks “They might even hit him now-- no one could see anymore, and so no one would come to Ender's rescue.” (Card, 5) Ender knew that the government was his only form of protection and would no longer be there to scare off his bullies. Ender was once again surrounded with fear and isolation, fear because there would be no one to watch over him anymore and isolation because he was going to have no one to fall back on; he was all alone once again. The teachers that he had thought he could trust only turned out to betray him. Using him for their ow...
In chapters one to four in Ender’s Game, many important events occurred. In the first chapter, the author introduces Ender and informs the reader that he will be trained to become the greatest military commander of all time. Then, Ender returns home, after his monitor being taken away, and interacts with his brother, Peter, who threatens Ender that he will easily kill him one day. Later on, Colonel Graff, the director of Battle School, introduces himself at Ender’s house and offers him a chance to be trained in Battle School and eventually convinces Ender to join. As the plot progresses, Ender is shown entering Battle School and his experience with zero gravity. Little does he know, that every move Ender takes is being observed by Graff and
Enders shows this when Bonzo again ordered him to this time back off and to not shoot during the battle against the other army in the Battle room. At the very end of the battle Ender once again shows his courage by disobeying his commanders orders and taking part in the battle. This shows that Ender makes decisions for what he feels is right, even if that means to break rules. He decided to disobey Bonzo to save Salamander army from a loss, if this was another solider in Salamander army they would have listened because of the fear of Bonzo. Ender demonstrates this again at the very end of the book, Ender decides to help the Buggers find a new home even when he knew that helping the Buggers was against the rules of the International fleet. Ender does this because he realizes that the buggers were innocent and that they only came to Earth to colonize, the humans on the other side decided to kill all the Buggers and Ender himself played a huge role of killing the Bugger colony. The guilt gets to Ender and he decides to save the Bugger population by finding a new planet for
Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is a novel about a genius boy who has his life turned around at the age of six when he is invited to go to Battle School. Battle School is a place where not so ordinary children are shaped into soldiers to fight against the buggers, an alien species that attacked Earth. Andrew Wiggin, better known as Ender, trains non-stop to become an unstoppable force against the buggers. What Ender doesn’t know is that Colonel Graff has chosen him to be the commander of the elite force against the buggers. Ender changed his toughness, his intelligence, and his leadership dramatically throughout the novel
Ender, on the other hand, is just a child when he is taken away from his family to be trained as a soldier to fight an alien civilization that is known as "buggers." These buggers have invaded Earth twice before and it is feared that they will invade again. It is believed that Ender is the only one who will be able to defeat the buggers. He is taken up into space to be trained at a battle school which teaches students the art of combat in space. Once he passes the tests that are set before him, Ender moves on to combat school where he learns to be a comandor and faces his last test...
In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card he introduces Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the third in a family of child geniuses, is selected by international military forces to save the world from destruction. Before being chosen Ender wears a device called a monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, and they didn’t have it for as long as Ender, and Peter hates Ender for this. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.