Ender's Game Themes
In the book Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, there are many topics that are protrayed to the reader. Topics such as bullying, friendship, isolation, self confinenment, manipulation, self creation, self image, deciete, lying, and combat. All of these topics help us to gain a better understanding of the book and the authors message. In Ender's Game, these topics presist, meaning that they are always an on going topic. These on going topics will help us better understand themes and ideolgy in this book. Bullying is described in this book a lot. In fact, almost in every chapter we see people bullying each other. For example, in the first chapter a bully named Stilson antiganises Ender. Stilson says "Hey, Third,
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In Ender case, Ender is forced to follow all of the rules and deals he made with Conell Graff. For instance, Graff says "I'm sorry if you're lonely and afraid. But the buggers are out there. Ten billion, a hundred billion... And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius" (35). Graff is taking about how he is going to have to train Ender. Graff is willing to take neccasary steps like, self confienment, to achieve his goal. Manipulation is used a lot through out this book to get characters to do what they want. Ender has to fact the reality that people are going to use his. Ender get a liitle word of edvice from Graff which is "Individual humans beings are tools, that the others use to help us all survive"(35). This qoute helps us realize that the whole book is going to be about how Ender is being lied to. Self creation has taken a grematic effect on Ender. Ender always is thinking about how he is like is brother Peter. He say in chapter 1, "Take away my moniter, and I am just like Peter" (8). This leads us to belive that Ender is truly good at heart, but when people try to hurt him he will act like
The novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is compelling with its characterizations and futurist plot line. Written in 1985, the story shows a boy, only 6 years of age named Ender and his journey through battle school with his companions and altercations with enemies to defeat the supposed “threat” of the buggers: alien invaders. A common practice by the characters in the novel is lying and deceiving to gain power; oddly however, the lies and deceit are more useful than telling the truth. Card shows this theme through the motif of power and how those above Ender such as Graff, Valentine and Mazer Rackham lied to him to help Ender gain power.
A bad side of Colonel Graff is that he gets what he wants through manipulation. It gets what needs done but you lose your trust. Graff only wanted the war to end so “Of course we tricked you into it, that’s the whole point” (Card298). Ender was most definitely hurt by this, but hey it got the job done didn’t it? All of Enders commanders knew what he was really doing, all except Ender.
Orson Scott Card’s book Ender's Game, is a famous science fiction novel that makes everyone question who they perceive to be a hero. In the novel, Card creates a character capable of mass murder while staying innocent throughout the entire story. Not taking the blame for any of his actions, Ender convinced himself that his actions were necessary. However, many readers began to have their own opinions and believed that Enders innocence was questionable and that he deserved prosecution. One of these critics happens to be John Kessel, author of the essay Creating the Innocent Killer, published in Foundation, the International Review of Science Fiction, in Spring 2004.
John Kessel’s essay, Creating the Innocent Killer, is a character study of Andrew ‘Ender’ Wiggin, from Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The essay provides an interesting look into who Ender actually is underneath all of Card’s world manipulation, and the message that Card was trying to send through Ender’s existence in the story. Essentially, the message that Kessel sees in the novel is that ‘actions should be judged based on intentions, rather than results,’ which is a belief that is generally be untrue. The theory that this message was intentionally being portrayed in Ender’s journey is backed up by large amounts of evidence, both from the book, and from Card himself. This isn’t all too hard to prove.
Ender is being trained differently because he is going to be the next general and it makes his life a whole lot harder. In Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card uses cultural surroundings to shape Ender's psychological and moral traits as Ender struggles to adapt to his new life aboard the battle school. Firstly, Card uses cultural surroundings to create the
The school later on sent two agents to Ender’s house for questioning. One of the agents named Graff, asked Ender why did he hurt Stilson. Ender replied “Knocking him down was the first. I wanted to win all the next ones, too, right then, so they’d leave me alone” (25). That was the exact mentality the agents wanted their recruits to have.
My book report is on "Ender 's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Ender 's Game is a military sci-fi book that has received many awards. The author did continue the series on Ender, however the military aspect of it did not continue with the series. Ender Wiggins was only allowed to born so that he can save the human race from exstinction. Since birth he was a outcast, hated by his brother Peter, and constantly being hurt by everyone except his sister Valentine.
As Ender enters Battle School, Graff declares that everyone has a certain purpose. Graff alludes to Ender’s role: “‘Individual human beings are all tools’” (35). Graff’s comment foreshadows his ideas for Ender’s life in Battle and Command School. Graff views Ender and all the other children purely as instruments in Graff’s master plan of defeating the buggers while withholding information about what the children’s purposes truly are. This withheld information hurts Ender once he learns that he, like Graff once indirectly told him, only aids in the destruction of the buggers.
Partial Success "We train our commanders the way we do because that's what it takes – they have to think in certain ways, they can't be distracted by a lot of things, so we isolate them. You. Keep you separate. And it works. But it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself, when you live with metal walls keeping out the cold of space, it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving.
Title The Giant only offers options that end in destruction. He offers a drink in one of two cups. One leads to poison-induced death and the other to Fairyland. Only the game is rigged; both cups are poisoned.
As humans, people will face many difficulties throughout their life. In the science fiction novel, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, the main character, Ender Wiggin, faces complications when he is selected to go to Battle School for training. Many of these hardships are caused by deep affection while other troubles are created because of his separation from the other students at school. However, these obstacles do improve Ender mentally, and it is depicted that these bumps in the road strengthen the protagonist physically in the long run, too. Throughout the book, Card uses love and isolation to demonstrate that life struggles are beneficial to a person’s life which creates a unique and relatable reading experience.
Colonel Graff is a prominent manipulator of Ender. He continually isolates Ender and makes sure that he knows he is different. This changes Ender’s demeanor and his outlook on the situation. Ender is persistently worried about whether he is good enough, even Major Anderson sees this. The dilemma on whether this is all morally right has come up numerous times.
After all that training, Ender is promoted to command school. Even at command school Ender trains as hard as he did at battle school. This is shown in Ender's performance at his graduation battle. Colonel Graff doesn't tell him that this is the real battle for the third invasion. Ender, who believes it is only a simulation, observes that “the enemy outnumbered him a thousand to one…
Is Ender and Peter the same or different? In ways they’re different but they do also have similarities. In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender (the main character) has a brother which is named Peter. In the beginning of the book, Peter is vicious and cruel.
Ender’s Game by: “Orson Scott Card.” The conflict that I found most interesting in Ender’s Game was, Ender v’s Ender. Ender had many problems, one of his main problems was he did not want to kill anyone. Ender was a great leader, but being a great leader had its consequences. The whole conflict would affect Ender in how well he will do in battle school.