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Ender's Game Character Analysis

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Is Ender’s brilliance something to be proud of or to be feared of. Will Ender live up to the expectations that other people have for him or will he disappoint them all . Ender's game by Orson Scott Card is set in the future where they believe that children are better than adults to fight off space creatures .Ender though isn't like every other children he’s one of the few children in the world that can actually beat the space creatures the other children are his sister Valentine and his older brother Peter. Ender is a 6 year old boy whose more intelligent than others he’s kind he tries to understand his enemy and he’s thorough with things that need to be accomplished .They make everyone hate Ender so that he’ll be isolated so that he’ll …show more content…

Ender’s intelligence is beyond those of other people so him using that he can think of new ways to do things that have never been done before .Ender’s intelligence also lets him understand his enemy more than other people could understand there’s he can predict what their next move would …show more content…

Ender care’s about his enemy he tries to understand them and why they do what they do why they attacked them.Ender love’s his enemy as who they are and why they do what they do . Ender destroyed the bugger world “I didn't want to kill them all”(Card pg 297) “I didn't want to kill anybody”(Card pg 297) Ender didn't want to kill the buggers or there homeworld he wanted to understand he wanted to help them move to another planet so that they could live there and not attack earth but he was tricked into killing all the buggers . Ender never wanted to kill the buggers he wanted to understand them and help them

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