This book also represents the after affects of war and even how the winners are still the losers with the feeling of guilt lingering over everyone who participated in even hurting another concient person this is the tramating feeling Ender feels even though he should be the…
Most referred to as Ender instead of his first name, he learns that in order to survive according to the government, he needs to sacrifice his life and family for Battle School. Throughout the book, Ender considers himself a ruthless killer that will turn into his older brother, Peter. In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Ender Wiggin fulfills the apocalyptical hero archetype because he faces the possibility of Earth going to war unless he sacrifices his innocence. When Colonel Graff goes down to Earth to recruit Ender Wiggin he didn’t tell him the full truth about what they wished him to do.…
Even before arriving to Battle school Colonel Graff starts to isolate Ender. During the launch he says “There’s only one boy in this launch with any brains at all, and that’s Ender Wiggin.” This provokes another boy to attack Ender. Since the people controlling Ender are trying…
Thanks to Peter, Enders skills soon transcended his peers. Due to Peter’s violence, manipulation and ruthlessness, Ender developed assets he may not have had…
“Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth” (Card pg 284). Ender would not have Killed the buggers if he knew it wasn’t a simulation. Graff was talking to Ender about how humanity relies on him to save the world. Graff stated “Individual Human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive” (card 35). Manipulation is necessary in this circumstance because they needed the best and smartest person to defend the Earth, and ender was being as a tool to defeat the Buggers.…
That’s only to examples of how pride becomes before the fall and I’m sure there’s more examples in the movie but that’s what stands out to me the most in this movie. Ender had some tough times in battle school but he was a good person that ended up having a big hart and ended up not being able to kill a whole galaxy.…
At first Graff set him up for failure, he purposely wanted for the other boys to despise Ender. That led to jealousy, and kids picking on him as he “cried out softly with the pain” (Card 60). Ever since the beginning of the novel, Ender wanted to finish Battle School as soon as possible just for the benefit of others. His past life may have caused him pain, but now he still has so much to learn. As soon as Ender made the final move, the strangers that were surrounding him started to cheer.…
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”(Tzu). Warriors that win first and then go to war spend months, maybe years, preparing for war. John Perry from the novel Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Ender Wiggin from the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card both exemplify this prepare first mentality, which comes out in their battles. Perry practices patience before he attacks the Rraey by studying how to kill them, then uses his new two shot technique to obliterate the Rraey forces. Ender wins first in a different way.…
Such as, “Wiggin, I finally traded you. I was able to persuade Rat Army that your incredible place on the efficiency list is more than an accident. You go over there tomorrow(168).” With Ender being "Isolated", it causes him to feel uncomfortable and upset forcing him to move on and overcome these obstacles in order to be the best soldier capable of possessing. Graff and Anderson purposely do this in order to see how Ender can adapt to the obstacles that are presented to him day by day.…
Ender soon becomes a commander of his own army and becomes the best anyone has ever seen. Ender then goes to Command school where he learns about the buggers’ strategies and inevitably commits xenocide on the buggers. In the novel Card describes how Ender is a good leader because of his intelligence, communication skills, and ingenuity. Ender has many strengths, but his greatest is his intelligence. Ender has always been smart, especially in school.…
When comparing Ender in both the novel and movie he was shown as a very different character…
51. Enders leadership style is that he is hard or brutal when working with his group but when individually he is passionate and patient. Textual evidence that shows this is “He staged mock wars after the first week, savage affairs in the practice room that left everybody exhausted,” (Scott, card175). 52. Carn Carby wants Ender to defeat the next army because if Enders army defeats the next army then his defeat is not that embarrassing.…
When Ender and the other students in the fleet were first boarding the ship, Graff praised Ender first and set him apart from the others, sparking jealousy and shunning Ender from their miniature society. “There’s only one boy on this launch with any brains at all, and that’s Ender Wiggin. Take a good look at him, little boys. He’s going to be a commander when you’re still in diapers up there.” (31-32) Being friendless forced Ender to learn to be alone and live in isolation like Graff wanted. When Ender proves to be the best student the battle school has ever received, more and more people turn against him, and the commanders keep pushing him past his limit.…
Turning Determination into Success “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” This is a perfect quote from Scott Orson Card’s novel Ender’s Game. Ender’s game is based on a strong, intelligent, young boy who is taken from his family to train in a position that is meant to save the world. Almost the whole book surrounds around the abuse Ender endures to become this warrior.…
He always bullied him and feared that he was actually like him when he didn’t want to. He also had a conversation with Graff where he found out that there was a reason that he was born a third. As it turned out, Peter and Valentine weren’t good enough, so Ender was supposed to be the perfect one. There are a number of real life meanings that could be taken out of the statement is that family is one of the most important aspects of life that drive your decisions. In real life, when someone decides to join the army, they do it not only to serve the country, but also to protect their families from outside harm.…