AMC’s hit television series, The Walking Dead, depicts an enormous, worldwide apocalypse of zombies or known in the tv series as,“walkers”. With the world now overrun by zombies, those who survived the main outbreak are faced with the fear of becoming infected. This fear causes friends to turn into monsters that murder each other to ensure their own survival. In the science fiction novel,”Ender's Game”, by Orson Scott Card, likewise displays how fear causes people to act cold-heartedly towards children to save Earth from what is said to be an inevitable alien invasion. Ender’s Game portrays how kind, pleasant, and innocent people can become vicious monsters when inundated with fear.
Ender expresses his contained fear overwhelming him when …show more content…
Graff informed Major Anderson with a demanding tone,"Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way... If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities" (202). Graff knows that if adults begin to help Ender with fights he gets into or issues he has that he will rely on in the future. This portrays how Graff will let Ender get beat up multiple times and have him suffer through unfair game play just to make him turn into the top commander they want him to be. In addition, after Ender received a large piece of paper from Graff, Bean suddenly realized how cruel the adults were after he asked,“Graduated?” Ender nodded. “What took them so long? You’re only two or three years early….” Ender replies to Bean,”command,” said Ender, and Bean then he was out the door. Anderson followed him closely. Bean grabbed Colonel Graff by the sleeve. “ Nobody goes to command school until they’re sixteen!” (223). Bean knows the regulations, laws, and rules about graduating which helps him realize how bad Anderson and the other adults are to Ender. Anderson and Graff graduate Ender to command school over eight years in advance so he can receive the rest of his training in the one or two years they have left until they calculate the buggers return. Furthermore, Mazer Rackham notified Ender,"I will program your battles now, not the computer... From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose... but you will win. You will learn to defeat the enemy"(263-264). The government of Ender’s world allowed him to be born or “Bred”, so he could be the world's best International Fleet commander and conquer the buggers once and for
Ender expresses his contained fear overwhelming him when …show more content…
Graff informed Major Anderson with a demanding tone,"Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way... If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities" (202). Graff knows that if adults begin to help Ender with fights he gets into or issues he has that he will rely on in the future. This portrays how Graff will let Ender get beat up multiple times and have him suffer through unfair game play just to make him turn into the top commander they want him to be. In addition, after Ender received a large piece of paper from Graff, Bean suddenly realized how cruel the adults were after he asked,“Graduated?” Ender nodded. “What took them so long? You’re only two or three years early….” Ender replies to Bean,”command,” said Ender, and Bean then he was out the door. Anderson followed him closely. Bean grabbed Colonel Graff by the sleeve. “ Nobody goes to command school until they’re sixteen!” (223). Bean knows the regulations, laws, and rules about graduating which helps him realize how bad Anderson and the other adults are to Ender. Anderson and Graff graduate Ender to command school over eight years in advance so he can receive the rest of his training in the one or two years they have left until they calculate the buggers return. Furthermore, Mazer Rackham notified Ender,"I will program your battles now, not the computer... From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose... but you will win. You will learn to defeat the enemy"(263-264). The government of Ender’s world allowed him to be born or “Bred”, so he could be the world's best International Fleet commander and conquer the buggers once and for