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.…
How would you feel if you were approached at random in your own home to go to a place where each day you’d be fighting for your life? Well, this was what happened to Ender Wiggins. Ender’s Game is a science fiction story focusing on battles between different armies throughout space. It leads to a search for different soldiers all trying for one ultimate goal: beating the returning champions, the “Buggers.” When looking at both the film and the novel, in my opinion, the book was superior.…
Ender was an isolated, third born young man who was raised knowing he had to defeat the buggers. He was forced by his family and the government who told him he was born for one reason and one reason only, to defeat the buggers. At a young age, Ender was recruited into Battle School to learn how to fight the buggers and he did so well that he became the best commander and moved up to Command school to control the simulator. When he was fighting in the “simulated games”, he was actually fighting real buggers and was in real battles, but he didn’t find this out until every bugger was killed. The book was better than the movie because the book had more details and action while the movie left many details…
He was provoked in every situation, but feels endless remorse for all of his actions. Ender is by no means responsible for what happened, and is completely innocent and…
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…
The program recruits kids that when a problem is thrown at them they can overcome and accomplish it. Ender takes charge in the next attack and destroys the entire species of buggers in the movie and book. Differences from movie to book are not large but well noticed, the description that is given in the novel is what makes it better than the film.…
The censorship and banning of books has impacted society greatly due to the the editing of books or complete prohibition of reading them. Books can be banned for many reasons says Debra Whelan, “The reasons range from a book’s sexual content and gay themes to its language and violence.” Similar content is evident in Ender’s Game causing it to be banned in many places. Ender’s Game is about a boy name Andrew “Ender” Wiggin who, at six years old, was selected to join the International Fleet (I.F.) to fight the aliens (Buggers) who have threatened to invade Earth. He excels at Battle School and is sent to Command School, where he fights the Buggers through simulations.…
“We are like you; [...] We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came back again”(321). In the book Ender’s Game, the hostile aliens known as the formics attacked earth; tens of millions died; only the legendary hero Mazer Rackham managed to fight them back. In order to prepare for the next attack, Colonel Graff and many of I.F. people started a search of the world’s smartest children and train them to be the next Mazer Rackham. One of them, Ender Wiggin, was especially successful; he passed the trainings effortlessly and unknowing wiped out the entire formics.…
After defeating the buggers with his team, he felt blameful that he destroyed a species that were not fully aware of what they were getting themselves into. Ender Wiggin was the best commander in all of mankind history. Different, emotional, this experience took him on a long journey on figuring out who his really is. Ender was the only six year old when his life took a big turn. From having to deal with Peter at home, he now has to deal new challenges.…
Just a few weeks into Enders training, he hates the position Graff once again put him in, because his schedule never leaves him to socialize with others. Nonetheless Ender does not even get the chance to eat with any of the others. Although Ender is never given time to socialize with the others, he will soon come to realize what it all had been for. Ender is awoken to find a man sitting in his room, thinking he was mentally ill, Ender does his daily exercises and the man, being Mazer Rackham , grabs his leg purposely trying to get Ender to fight back. This teaches Ender to be prepared for any obstacle that might come his way at any given time.…
most american boys of my generation and previous ones, I had a childhood dominated by weapons-oriented play”(94)”(Suvin 17). The Battle School is a part of Suvin’s notion of machinery in Science Fiction. Without the Battle School, this notion of weaponry as being a part of the children’s lives within the novel could be less dominant. The children in the Battle School were surrounded by weapons and machines which influenced them in a more as Suvin…
Imagine being born an outcast and forced to end a war. That’s what life is like for Ender Wiggin, the protagonist in the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a third child in a world where having more than two children is obscure. The only reason he was ever born was to become a commander and defeat the alien threat known as the buggers. To do this Ender is conscripted to Battle School, a place where kids are put against each other in null gravity to learn about the tactics of war.…
Orson Scott Card’s definition of an outsider conveys an idea that outsiders can see things more clearly and are important to everyone around them. He compliments their stronger sense of self compared to the rest of people in society. Card mentions how an outsider has a unique perspective than everyone else and that great heroic deeds are made by outsiders because of this unique perspective. While there is a notion that outsiders are not important, it is clear that outsiders are necessary in keeping a balanced society because they notice the conflicts insiders don’t and can initiate change.…
The entire concept of the battle school is adult manipulation of young children. From the start, as soon as Ender boarded the ship headed towards outer space, the situations he was put in were rigged. His entire training was rigged; the situation was manipulated along with Ender. This is one of the most notorious ways the school brought out the side of Ender they liked, they set the situation and the people in the situations against him. They always tried to push Ender’s limits by assuring the odds against him.…
Ender however is different because he gets chosen to go to battle school where he finds out about the battle game in which he has to train with an army. He got really good at the game and got his own army to train himself…