Ender And Ellie Character Analysis

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Many people have different personalities, but Ender and Ellie have some very different qualities but a few similar ones. Ender's Game is about kids who are very smart who get taken up to a place called battle school ams they get trained to fight and alien race which humans call “Buggers”. Night is a true story about a boy who is in the middle of World War 2 as a jew and gets taken to Auschwitz to work until The Allies free them. Ender and Ellie are very different personality wise, some can be drastically different or they can be very similar. Ender seems to be very hard working in his different missions that his commanders give him. One point where he is very hard working is when he is in the battle with his team against Salamander Army and Rat Army and he created a very precise plan to win, and they did. He is also very smart. In his final test against the Buggers he was able to adjust his plan at the drop of a hat. Ender always seems to be very insecure and imitated by his commanders in the …show more content…
The world can also be very scary and overwhelming so they seem to be very frightened by a lot of things. Ender lets his brother still haunt him even though they are billions of miles away from each other. Enders character and Ellie's personalities include the fact that they are very impressionable. Ender lets himself be conformed by the way people are treating him in battle school. While Ellie is getting more and more weary by the day because the guards push them to their limits. In the majority of their lives, they are friendless. With the pressure of saving the world and surviving the Holocaust, their doesn't seem to be time to be very friendly to others. With all this pressure and extreme amounts of action going on, they are very stressed which pushes them to the breaking point. Ellie and Ender may have many differences in their personality traits but they have a few things in

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