Ender's Game Character Analysis

If someone is different than everyone else, they will be cast out by the people they know, but this will allow them to see everything clearly and become better at whatever they do in life. In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, all the other kids exclude Ender, the main charecter, because he is smarter and a better fighter than all of them, but this only makes him better because he can work without distractions. In The Catcher in The Rye by JD. Salinger a boy named Holden tries to be true to himself, which just pushes people away from him, and because of this he becomes even more true to himself. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Junior, a reservation Indian decides to go to a fancy all white school, because he is very smart and creative. When he goes …show more content…
In the book The Catcher in the Rye Holden is a young boy who is incredibly true to himself and completely despises those who aren't. He is always sad and unhappy with the world around him. He especially dislikes his old school principal, Hans. “then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents. I can't stand that stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed I go crazy”. Holden is incredibly true to himself, and he doesn't do something just because someone else tells him to. Unfortunately because he is so true to himself and so rude to people who change who they are for other people, he has no true friends, and he drives away everyone that could be his friend. If someone is true to themselves they may reach inner happiness, but they may also become a social outcast and struggle to be content with the world around