Most referred to as Ender instead of his first name, he learns that in order to survive according to the government, he needs to sacrifice his life and family for Battle School. Throughout the book, Ender considers himself a ruthless killer that will turn into his older brother, Peter. In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Ender Wiggin fulfills the apocalyptical hero archetype because he faces the possibility of Earth going to war unless he sacrifices his innocence. When Colonel Graff goes down to Earth to recruit Ender Wiggin he didn’t tell him the full truth about what they wished him to do.…
How would you feel if you were approached at random in your own home to go to a place where each day you’d be fighting for your life? Well, this was what happened to Ender Wiggins. Ender’s Game is a science fiction story focusing on battles between different armies throughout space. It leads to a search for different soldiers all trying for one ultimate goal: beating the returning champions, the “Buggers.” When looking at both the film and the novel, in my opinion, the book was superior.…
Even before arriving to Battle school Colonel Graff starts to isolate Ender. During the launch he says “There’s only one boy in this launch with any brains at all, and that’s Ender Wiggin.” This provokes another boy to attack Ender. Since the people controlling Ender are trying…
Ender knows that time is running out before the Third Invasion, so it comes down to the question if Ender is smart enough to save the planet and human species from extinction. Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel by Scott Orson Card and is one of the many stories that epitomize Joseph Campbell’s 17 stages of a hero’s journey. The hero is Ender’s Game must complete many stages within the journey such as the calling of adventure, a series of trials, a…
56.General Pace comes to the Battle School because he is concerned about Ender’s conflict with the other students. He wants Graff to do something about Ender’s conflict with Bonzo and the other kids. But Graff does not want to help Ender because he wants Ender to take care of his own problems. An evidence quote from the text is “If we transfer Bonzo ahead of schedule, he’ll know that we saved him,” (Scott, Card202). This shows that Graff does not want to help Ender he wants Ender to learn how to solve his own problems for himself.…
The censorship and banning of books has impacted society greatly due to the the editing of books or complete prohibition of reading them. Books can be banned for many reasons says Debra Whelan, “The reasons range from a book’s sexual content and gay themes to its language and violence.” Similar content is evident in Ender’s Game causing it to be banned in many places. Ender’s Game is about a boy name Andrew “Ender” Wiggin who, at six years old, was selected to join the International Fleet (I.F.) to fight the aliens (Buggers) who have threatened to invade Earth. He excels at Battle School and is sent to Command School, where he fights the Buggers through simulations.…
Ender’s Game features Andrew “Ender” Wiggins as a conflicted, young hero thrown into the life of a hero. His morals and true heroism is questioned by his actions, but also had been forced or tricked into such actions, creating conflict within Ender and the reader’s opinion. Ender follows the Hero Cycle, entering new worlds and victories over enemies. Even so, at the same time, he must kill and fight in order to reach those victories, and Ender does not want to become a ruthless killer. Technology ties these heroic or non-heroic deeds together, maintaining a strong yet subtle impact to many significant events and ideas within the story.…
In the Ender’s Game by Orson Scott, the author uses irony to create meaning and conflict in the story. Some of this irony includes Enders treatment as a peer to the other kids, he is treated poorly but comes out on top. Also, Ender's personal conflict with being a hero. First, in the Ender’s Game, Enders age creates meaning in the story through the flipped image of adults no longer being the smarter and more wise age group. Now kids 9, 8, 7, and even 6 years old are smarter.…
Not every child is as smart as six-year-old Bean, one of the best at the battle school. Orson Scott’s novel, Ender's Shadow, is considered a parallax with Ender's Game, where Bean is raised in the impoverished city streets of Rotterdam. He is seen as unique by the battle school recruiters, who therefore enlist him. As Bean starts to climb the ranks, his success is commended by the elders but is simultaneously resented by his peers. He progresses to more advanced schools where he begins to train harder to prepare himself for his final test: an alien invasion.…
At first Graff set him up for failure, he purposely wanted for the other boys to despise Ender. That led to jealousy, and kids picking on him as he “cried out softly with the pain” (Card 60). Ever since the beginning of the novel, Ender wanted to finish Battle School as soon as possible just for the benefit of others. His past life may have caused him pain, but now he still has so much to learn. As soon as Ender made the final move, the strangers that were surrounding him started to cheer.…
Ender’s Game is a novel that should be meant for adults. If the book is intended for children, then the violence in the novel is not needed because it only causes destruction to others; it is more disturbing that the children are the…
Imagine being born an outcast and forced to end a war. That’s what life is like for Ender Wiggin, the protagonist in the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a third child in a world where having more than two children is obscure. The only reason he was ever born was to become a commander and defeat the alien threat known as the buggers. To do this Ender is conscripted to Battle School, a place where kids are put against each other in null gravity to learn about the tactics of war.…
Ender however is different because he gets chosen to go to battle school where he finds out about the battle game in which he has to train with an army. He got really good at the game and got his own army to train himself…
In all three of my short stories people have a hard time accepting others and their differences. My first short story I will be talking about is Ender’s Game By Orson Scott. In this story people don’t accept Ender because he was born third in his family making him a third. He also has a chip in his neck that was put in there when he was born because having a third child where they’re from isn’t normal and is shunned upon by the people. “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”…
I have just finished reading you book Ender’s Game and let me just say it was amazing. I love the way you wrote Ender to be such a deep character from how he felt about the buggers to the way he viewed life. I admired when Ender told us how “It’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming who you pretend to be”. This quote is so true and you see it a lot in the real world like when you are pretending to be someone else for a while you eventually start acting like that person all the time.…