Bugger Essays

The character I chose was Aunt Alexandra from “To Kill A Mockingbird” because she is a character with a strong personality and stands by her opinions even if they're wrong. A little background about her in the book, she was the older sister of Atticus but not like him at all. She was a racist person and was disappointed at her brother for supporting the black man in the trial, no matter how noble his actions may have been. She's very intent on Scout being the ideal female girl in that time period

awareness. Although he appears in the novel only briefly, the five or so pages that involve Bugger and what he knows are some of the most significant pages in the entire book. What he knows and the decisions Joe makes about that information have made a very significant impact on the outcome of the story. Bugger first important scene happens while Joe is eating lunch with Linda at Mighty’s. Joe sees Bugger steal his bike and ride past the front window and goes

species named the "buggers". After the buggers killed several humans, mistaking them for a non sentient race, the humans promptly retaliate and declare war on the buggers. The protagonist, Ender Wiggins, is the third child in a family full of geniuses. Due to him brutally beating a school bully to death, Ender is ultimately selected by General Graff of the International Fleet to attend Battle School, a school located in space focused on preparing children to combat the buggers. Despite being kept

humans vainly attempt to communicate with the buggers, Earth declares war with the alien species because the humans misunderstand their intentions; ironically, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin defeats and destroys the buggers after lacking communication with his own leaders about Battle School and Command School’s purposes, contributing to his misunderstanding and confusion of the End War. The war between the buggers and the humans, which only occurred because the buggers’ communication, deemed inadequate by the

futuristic world where hostile extraterrestrial beings known as “buggers” have attacked Earth twice, and they almost wiped out mankind in the Second Invasion. The International Fleet (I.F.) plans to attack the bugger world a third time to wipe them out for good, and they take Ender at the young age of 6 to a space station called Battle School to prepare him and other children to possibly graduate to Command School and fight the buggers. Throughout the novel, Card develops Ender’s character traits using

Ender unknowingly executes an entire species, known as buggers. After enduring immense self-conflict, Ender is finally able to restore his compassion, and identity. As shown through Peter, Ender’s treacherous brother, the buggers, who suffer from extinction, and Ender, the destroyer of the buggers, this novel reveals that violent actions do not dictate one’s level of compassion. To begin

Earth's fear of the Buggers gives them one priority, kill them all. The Buggers attack on Earth outrages many. The humans support any efforts to hurt the Buggers in any way, even though humans have no idea what they wanted in the first place. The government feels the need to please the people because not a lot gets accomplished when the humans keep thinking about a possible Bugger invasion. The humans fear strongly drives them to do anything that concerns the Buggers death. When the Bugger home planet blows

they are. Little is known of how the buggers lived and if they cared for their kind, but the mercurial and diverse nature of humans is well known. In some sense, it would be better for humanity to die off, considering our damage to the environment. As eloquently said by Graff, “It isn’t the world at stake. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust.” (Card 35) During the First Invasion, buggers killed humans in cold blood. To them,

teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer” (263). Together they watch tapes of the first and second invasions. Rackham explains to him why the buggers stopped fighting after he attacked

his peers that they had been fighting real buggers the entire time they thought they had just been practicing in a simulation. Without knowing that the final evaluation was a real fight against the buggers and not just Mazer Rackham or a computer, Ender Wiggin, and his peers destroyed them. For instance, Colonel Graff states, “It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it…We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them…But

determining the morality of an action and the means getting there? Stemming from this question, the biggest issue in Ender’s Game that is still the most controversial, still remains unresolved. Should Ender, the protagonist, be held responsible for the buggers’ deaths? This theme is the basis of Card’s belief of intention-based philosophy. In Ender’s Game and his sequels, he argues that the morality of an act is based solely on the motive of the person acting.  The result is a character who can commit

beginning of the novel; he deals with the repercussions of being a third child, a forbidden stigma. When earth is once again threatened by the buggers, an alien species that have previously been defeated by Mazer Rackham during the first and second invasions, Colonel Graff of the International Fleet (a government organization established to protect Earth from the buggers) recruits Ender in hopes that he really is the key to success that the I.F. has always anticipated, but he must leave his parents and older

All that the buggers want is water so there queen doesn’t die. The human race responds with guns and violence causing the buggers to show violence as well. So the humans are the threat all the buggers want is peace and Graff knows that but he doesn’t seem to care.Graff trains boys and girls to fight because he fears that if they don’t the buggers will wipe out their

Battle School. They practice and train together and fight the battles against the buggers in the simulation. Mazor tells Ender how we won against the buggers and then they watch the video of the old battles. Ender begins to have bad dreams of the buggers and now barely sleeps. He becomes ill for a few days. When he wakes up he has to fight the final battle

happens a lot in the book Ender’s Game. What this story by Orson Scott Card is about is Ender Wiggin winning the war against the buggers, but what it is really about is if you manipulate people you might not always get the outcome you expect. In the book Ender’s Game a boy named Ender Wiggin decides to go to battle school, so he can fight in the war against the alien buggers. In battle school Ender meets Alai, Bean, Petra and Dink who all help him become a better commander when he gets his own army

commanded a fleet to fight the buggers when Ender didn't know he was fighting a war. after Ender destroyed the bugger Planet he was told the game was real and Ender went into a breakdown after his break down he found a bugger Queen on

saw how unfair the game was set-up and believed if they didn’t play by the rules why did he have too. So, he just went directly after the planet. After winning the game. He learns all those simulations were real scenarios, he was actually killing buggers and killed the entire planet of them. Heartbroken, he sleeps for five days until the war on Earth ended. Throughout the

“Ender” Wiggin. Set in the 2190’s, we learn the story of a child given the task of saving humanity from an alien race called the buggers. Ender is taken to become a soldier at battle school, a space station in Earth’s orbit. He goes to battle school with only one goal in mind, to defeat his fellow soldiers in the simulated battles to eventually be able to defeat the buggers. Ender is undefeated in every battle and is hailed a prodigy. Though he is seemingly

as Battle School, which is where the I.F (International Fleet, the only army able to fight the buggers.) takes kids to train them to be marines in the fight for humanity. Their is also Fairyland, which is part of a mind game which is used in Battle School. Here, Ender learns his fears, and at the end of the story, it plays a significant role. Characters: The bad guys of this story are the Buggers, which are the aliens that are attacking Earth. There is also Peter, who is Enders main enemy. Peter

we are so scared of anyone else having more power than we will kill anything in our path. The theme in ender's game is human nature is to destroy that which we do not understand and we know that because of what the bible says, the need to kill the buggers and the whole training the launchies go through. The bible has a lot of verses that support the theme “human nature is to destroy what we don’t know. “Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand