Isolation In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

In the book Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card shows that isolation can control an individual. Even today, when a person is isolated stress and anxiety can affect your thought process. The main character Ender Wiggin is presented with different conflicts throughout the book. He realizes all through the story that he must take things into his own hands. In the novel, Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card leads the reader on a journey to demonstrate the effects of internal isolation, external isolation and social isolation that transpires during the life of Ender Wiggin.
The author Orson Scott Card uses internal conflict to show can isolation is a technique to control others. Six years old Ender Wiggin struggles with coexisting as the third child. He grows …show more content…
At battle school Ender experiences conflicts with many different people, particularly, Stilson. The author explains how one person can have an immense effect on another individual. Stilson and his gang follow Ender after school and bully him because he existed as a third. Ender accepted this as a one-on-one fight. Battle school taught Ender to rely completely on himself. The adults will not come to his aid. The skills Ender possess brings Stilson down. During the conflict with Stilson, Ender continuously needs to prove the importance of winning at any cost. “I have to win this now, and for all the time, or I’ll fight it everyday and it will get worse and worse” (7). Even though Ender has to fight to stay alive, he ends up walking away and crying after killing Stilson. He never knew the external conflict was created by the administration. When alone, Ender views his actions similar to his brother Peter. Each day Ender enters the battle room and the adults manipulate his encounters to force harm on others. The vision of behaving in the same way as Peter becomes his worst nightmare. “The message was clear. Winning is more important than anything” (100). Ender cannot escape or hide from the similarities he retains just like his brother. He also accepts that isolation constructed by the administration will create a stronger …show more content…
From the very beginning, Ender, born as a third is labeled as a social outcast. His parents do not care about his well-being. The family sent him off to military school to save humans from the Buggers. Leaving at a young age, Ender loses his childhood and grows up on his own. Other children his age lived a normal childhood. As he plays the games Ender learns to kill. He attempts not to act as the same as Peter, but stills holds traits of him. When Ender killed the giant this action symbolizes his brother Peter. “I’m a murderer even when I play” (65). Ender feels fear and isolation once again. The author proves that Ender will take extreme measures to stay alive. The character relies only on himself. The dragon army Ender creates symbolizes power and wisdom. He uses the Buggers strategy for picking at problems and teaches himself strategies so he will always win. “So it was from the Buggers, not the humans that Ender learned strategy. He felt ashamed and afraid of learning from them, since they were the most terrible enemy, ugly and murderous and loath. But they were also very good at what they did. To point” (118). Orson Scott Card shows the reader at the end of the book how Ender used social isolation to his advantage. The success confirms how Ender has