A child's innocent is their worst enemy, and yet it should never be taken from them . In the view of the young boy he observes something quite unique that he has never seen before from most students around his age in Battle School, that they all “(...) act like – history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus” (110). Ender compares the students from Battle School to his classmates back at home (Earth). Remembering that back on Earth the kids always were loud, played around, and said dumb things, and seeing that the students in Battle School acted like little adults, he couldn't understand how. With this in mind, Ender is a child, who doesn’t comprehend the truth behind the image. He is looking at something unknown as any child would be,
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...
Therefore, Ender shows the reader that he takes responsibility as an adult for just waking up early and on time for his battles. Therefor, Ender taking that responsibility must be hard since he's just a kid and has to be responsible for
“Bullying is also not an action flick, it’s a psychodrama. It’s not going to glide naturally toward a happy ending; both perpetrator and victim have deep psychological needs to heap, abuse or absorb it” (Gale Student Resources in Context). This quote is sating that bullying is not based on a hero overcoming physical feats and violence, but it is where the main interest is psychological elements. This ties into the novel because it exhibits the psychological effects of the victim and the psychological issues the bullies have. In the novel, Ender’s Game, a boy named Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender, is the third child in his family. The government only allows people to have two children but in this case the Wiggin’s first two children, Peter and Valentine, were not qualified to go to battle school. Peter is too vicious and Valentine is too compassionate. The government lets the Wiggin’s have a third child hoping that the third will be a mixture of both Peter and Valentine. Ender qualifies to go to battle school and leaves Earth to go into military training to fight the enemies, the buggers. Throughout the book Ender gets physically and mentally bullied. While Ender is gone, Peter comes up with the idea to dominate the world. When Ender finally went back home, he realized that battle school was not a game. It was a reality. He actually killed people, destroyed ships and a world. Ender was relieved to be home. Valentine goes with Ender into space and Peter ends up in charge and he eventually dominates the world. Ender wins the third invasion, and then helps the buggers find a new home. The novel, Ender’s Game integrates with American history because it shows the presence of bullying in the schoolyard, the workplace, and even in gove...
Thinking that the war was just an ideal character. Convincing the reader to believe the boys didn't know the risk they were taking by being in this war. They way the boys viewed it, shows that, true their are some hard times in wars, but their minds are young and they thought it was just another thing to talk about. When they should have been taking things more serious, but thinking about the good parts helped them to keep a hold on their sanity. "They ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress to the future", was the beliefs of the boys after their friend Behn dies. Their generation thought that the authorities were going to look after, and take care of them, the authorities were thought of real highly by them. Until their friend passed away, then everything changed. "We had to realize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs", this is where they came to reality that, everybody was taking care of their selves, and didn't want anything to do with other peoples problems.
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.”
However, the book is a better representation than the movie in many ways. In the plot, Peter and Valentine play as their alter egos who are Locke and Demosthenes. Locke is a moderate peacemaker played by Peter, and Demosthenes is a violent nationalist played by Valentine. They both write online gaining national attention and soon influencing the world. This detail is not even mentioned in the movie at all missing a huge form of symbolism in the plot. It matters to include this because it shows how smart Ender’s family is since they are only kids performing at high levels. It also misses the fact that Ender is a balance between these two alter egos because he can be a vicious killer, and a humble peacemaker. The book, however; informs the readers of this detail, making the plot more interesting than it is displayed in the movie. Age is a crucial factor in many stories, and in Ender’s Game, it is a huge component for the plot. The book unfolds Ender’s progression through the plot based on a timeline. At age six, he enters Battle School, then six years later he becomes a commander. In the movie, he is the same age throughout, and it depicts an inaccurate timeline representation of the plot. The age context in the novel is important because it shows his progression from young child to young adult. It also reveals how he matures from interactions with different people. By not including the real timeline in the film, the audience will not be able to relate to the hard work that Ender had to go through in six years, instead the audience thinks that this whole plot happened in a matter of months. Not only is the entire timeline of the plot shortened in the film, Ender’s time in Battle School is reduced by a huge margin as well. The novel shows him going through many intense, long battles at Battle School. As time goes on, his battles
Ender’s Game, winner of the1985 Nebula Award and the1986 Hugo Award for best novel, is a military science fiction novel written by American author Orson Scott Card. In this futuristic novel with spaceships, aliens, and war games, the world needs a saviour against an alien race called “buggers”. The military needs a brilliant mind, like the young Ender Wiggen’s, to command an army and save the world from destruction. After separation from his beloved sister, Valentine, and his terrifying brother, Peter, he is brought to a battle school that orbits around the Earth. He is then tested and honed into an empathetic killer, and begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving the Earth and his family. Ender is more similar in personality to Valentine than Peter because he is compassionate, selfless, and remorseful, while Peter is not.
In other lessons, Wart says he “likes fighting” and thinks “it is knightly” (170). However, in this lesson, Wart experiences what war is like, in person. From the moment he becomes an ant, Wart has had voices in his head, making statements such as “‘June-noon-moon-spoon’” (122). This constant stream of babble is neverending, and Wart is unable to produce an original thought. As he spends more time among the ants, a war breaks out, and “mammy-mammy- mammy gave place to Antland, Antland Over All” (128). This constant stream of nonsense and war propaganda negatively affects Wart “ The [Stream of Voices] had begun to kill the joy of life which belonged to his boyhood” (130). This destroying of innocence and boyhood by war reveals that White is against war and the sending off of young men to fight in a battle without really understanding
Ender has always despised and feared Peter for his short and hot temper. He has always feared becoming his brother one day, so much that if he does anything violent he shrivels at the thought of changing for the worse. During “The Giant”, a game the Ender seemed to devote an odd amount of time to, he looks at the animated children who have begun to laugh at him and thinks to himself how much “[he] wanted to hit them, to throw them into the brook” (Pg. 71). He has began to no longer contain his anger in a calm way, he now only seems to solve his problems with violence, something that I think our humanity has come to, too. Most people have changed from the kind, smiling human beings that previously made up humanity into tough skined souls in order to survive in this world of harm. Fifty years ago, parents didn’t have to worry about their children getting kidnapped during a late night bike ride. Now, adults must go through advanced background checks just to volunteer in their community. In order to survive in this world, you must change, change into a person that knows how humanity really functions.
Guy Ryder states, “Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.” The only way the world can succeed is working together to have justice for all. Peace and social justice will keep families together because they will not be forced away from one another. Social justice is an ideal word for all. It will bring peace for everyone. No one would be discriminated against for anything, be hungry, have no home, be disrespected for their gender, and more. Everyone would be accepted for the person they are. The only issue is many people are choosing to make social justice unachievable and making sure that there will not be a better tomorrow. In the realistic fiction book If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson, the novel The Boy In the
One key component that is produced through Ender’s struggles at his young age is self-reliance. Ender is born unto a family where he is seen as an outcast; he’s a “third.” In a world where population control is major concern, a third-born child is looked upon in disgust. He is isolated even before he is brought into the world. John Kessel reveals his insights into Card’s interpretation of Ender’s exploitation when he says,” Orson Scott Card presents a harrowing tale of abuse. Ender’s parents and older brother (. . .) either ignore the abuse of Ender or participate in it” (Kessel 1). No one contributes more to this abuse than his older brother, Peter. Along with his birth, jealousy and hatred are especially common towards Ender. This disapproving outlook is particularly apparent from Peter. Peter let’s Ender know hi...
In addition, a very important theme is this book is war. Voltaire shows how sometimes young people are tricked or even forced into fighting wars that have nothing to do with them. This is something that is still seen today. In many places of the world small children are drafted into armies against their will and forced to kill and die for a cause that is unknown to them. Voltaire also makes fun of pointless wars, for example when Martin talks about the French and English wa...
They cheat. They change the rules in the middle of the game. Adults, in short, refuse to fight fair - and children know it” (Day 208). Manipulation by an adult is first seen when it is time to get Ender’s monitor removed. The nurse tells him that removing it “won’t hurt a bit”, but as soon as the procedure starts he feels a sharp pain shoot down his spine. As a child Ender does not know as much as she does as an adult, so when she told him it would not hurt she knew Ender would have trust in her words (Day 208). Wiggin’s own parent’s even lied to him about their lifestyle and their certain practices. “The lies in question range in size and scale, but the consistent message is that adults are reliable almost exclusively in their unreliability. Ender’s parents are revealed to have lied about their own religious and ethnic background” (Day 220). Ender’s whole journey through battle school is one big trick set up by adults. “The ‘hero’ Ender Wiggin, is manipulated by adults into committing Xenocide, the destruction of an entire intelligent alien species; the rest of his life is devoted to expiating this sin” (James 326). Ever since Ender was six years old, he has been manipulated by the military to concentrate on his survival. The military shows no concern towards Ender's health are well-being throughout this period of time (Brown 1245). “Andrew (‘Ender’) Wiggin is a ‘third,’ a child conceived by parents in defiance of strict population
New Boy is a short film that envelops the viewer into a third person character and leads viewers to experience how it feels to be an outsider “The New Boy”, the audience experiences this feeling through the Protagonist 's mind in this case “Joseph.” This short film not only focuses on the idea of bullying but also the idea of being an outsider.The positioning of the title “New Boy” on the left-hand side of the frame indicates that the new boy will be powerless.