Comparing Ender's Game And The Giver

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“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved" by Mother Teresa. It explains the value of love. Being unloved is one of most unfair things in the world and can even make you think death is better consequence. In the books, Ender's Game and The Giver, they talk about love, compassion, responsibilities and how they're abandoned by the society because they're special. Ender is a third and he’s an outcast. He doesn’t have any friends except his sister, Valentine and a brother, who might kill him. Ender is predicted to be the next savior to protect everybody from Buggers. On the other hand, Jonas is living in a utopian society, which chooses people’s jobs, mate and who they love. Suddenly, he becomes the receiver and …show more content…
The government also thinks that Ender could save humanity from the third invasion. After the battle between Ender’s and Alai’s army, he thought, “The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall can’t be breached and Alai was glad to be separated, and [now he was already Ender’s enemy].” (Pg. 171) Ender was a talented and skilled rival, even though Alai and Ender were friends, in the battle field they were enemies. The friendship wouldn’t be the same if he was competing against his close friend. He feels miserable and lonely because now he doesn’t have Valentine and now he’s also going to lose Alai. In the Giver, Jonas is the receiver, so he has all the awful and painful memories. When Ender receives the memory of a boy snow sliding, he thinks, “They have never known pain…. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg.” (Pg.110) Ender feels isolated because the people in the society live ordinary lived without the knowledge of suffering and agony. They don’t know the meaning of love and don’t even have a glimpse of the past. He feels buried in the world of painstaking memories because he can’t share to …show more content…
If you have a lot of pressure then you’re always in your own world. If you can’t share then you drift apart from all your possessions and loved ones which makes you lonely. Ender and Jonas were all given significant responsibilities like holding onto memories and to save humanity. They didn’t get loved because work and responsibility were always before love. Everyone had high expectations and relied on them, so they couldn’t think about themselves and focused to help others. Without love you feel like a person curled up in a small corner of the world and it makes you secluded, and if people trust you to save humanity or hold onto memories you desire love, but your priority will be your duty. The quote by Mother Teresa, signifies that loneliness is a feeling that people shouldn’t experience because everyone deserves love. The huge responsibilities on these children’s shoulders, make them face bitter feelings like lonesomeness, so realize how precious love is and respect it, because you’re lucky to at least experience

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