Symbolism In Ender's Game

“We are like you; [...] We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came back again”(321). In the book Ender’s Game, the hostile aliens known as the formics attacked earth; tens of millions died; only the legendary hero Mazer Rackham managed to fight them back. In order to prepare for the next attack, Colonel Graff and many of I.F. people started a search of the world’s smartest children and train them to be the next Mazer Rackham. One of them, Ender Wiggin, was especially successful; he passed the trainings effortlessly and unknowing wiped out the entire formics. He then seeked absolution and tried to study them, while he found out that there is only one cocoon left; he traveled the universe and found a new home for it. The Giants symbolizes many things, and the things it symbolizes changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the novel, the Giant is a representation of evil and bad. This is shown when the author …show more content…
It was stated, “Its like a Giant died here, [...] and the Earth grew up to cover his carcass. [...] The buggers built it for me” (317). Ender arrives at the places with the Giant’s corpse, and finding out the the formics had build it for him to discover the message they had left for him. Finding out that the formics didn’t mean to kill the people and they didn’t fight back after they realize that they are intelligent life. The Giant is a representation of misapprehension of the formics to the humans. In the novel Ender’s Game, the Giant, is used to represent evilness, violence, and misunderstanding. This contributes to the theme that love is the best way to heal violence. Ender, at the very end of the novel, travels the universe to find a new home for the formics. He realizes that all of this killing is just because the misconstruction. They cannot communicate to each other. At last, Ender manages to find a new home, where they can live in