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. Card uses the traits of strength and intelligence within Ender, even at such a young age, to show the theme of “determination guides a way to success”.
Ender is observed as a strong and intelligent young boy in this chapter. He had a tough time getting through this game. He died multiple times and got very …show more content…
Mazer Rackham tricked him into believing that was participating in a ‘final game’ and it was testing Ender’s abilities but, Ender fights against the buggers with no idea what was happening. “Within three seconds the entire plant burst apart, becoming a sphere of bright dust, hurtling outward.” (295) Ender saw this planet blow up and just thought he had won the game with his squadron. He took off his headphones and saw tears, laughter, and exchange of hugs. Within minutes he found out that he had just led his group to beat and kill the buggers, when he thought it was just a game. Mazer and everyone around him had been tricking him for the multiple years he had been in this world. But my question is: was not telling him the best thing for him? As we do not know what would have happened if they had been honest with him. An article by Sara Day titled “Liars and Cheats: Crossing the Lines of Childhood, Adulthood, and Morality in Ender’s Game”, she supports Ender’s intelligence and strength by writing “...Ender has become cynical, and he struggles with a complex network of ideas about children and adults, students and teachers, heroes and villains, which Mazer further exploits to ensure that the young man will behave as the adults expect him to during the final battle”(219) Ender was being mistreated his whole life in space and he thought it was just hard training. These men had to choose between potentially saving the world and Ender’s sanity. They obviously chose the chance of Ender saving the world and although it did work, the abuse that was given to Ender was so strong it broke him and who he was before leaving, training, and the final
“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. Card uses the traits of strength and intelligence within Ender, even at such a young age, to show the theme of “determination guides a way to success”.
Ender is observed as a strong and intelligent young boy in this chapter. He had a tough time getting through this game. He died multiple times and got very …show more content…
Mazer Rackham tricked him into believing that was participating in a ‘final game’ and it was testing Ender’s abilities but, Ender fights against the buggers with no idea what was happening. “Within three seconds the entire plant burst apart, becoming a sphere of bright dust, hurtling outward.” (295) Ender saw this planet blow up and just thought he had won the game with his squadron. He took off his headphones and saw tears, laughter, and exchange of hugs. Within minutes he found out that he had just led his group to beat and kill the buggers, when he thought it was just a game. Mazer and everyone around him had been tricking him for the multiple years he had been in this world. But my question is: was not telling him the best thing for him? As we do not know what would have happened if they had been honest with him. An article by Sara Day titled “Liars and Cheats: Crossing the Lines of Childhood, Adulthood, and Morality in Ender’s Game”, she supports Ender’s intelligence and strength by writing “...Ender has become cynical, and he struggles with a complex network of ideas about children and adults, students and teachers, heroes and villains, which Mazer further exploits to ensure that the young man will behave as the adults expect him to during the final battle”(219) Ender was being mistreated his whole life in space and he thought it was just hard training. These men had to choose between potentially saving the world and Ender’s sanity. They obviously chose the chance of Ender saving the world and although it did work, the abuse that was given to Ender was so strong it broke him and who he was before leaving, training, and the final