Essay On Ender's Game

Synthesis Essay: Child Soldiers Fear. Trickery. Violation. These inhuman techniques, used by child soldier commanders, destroy children’s childhoods. Within the science fictional book, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Andrew “Ender” Wiggins, a precocious pre-teen, was specifically birthed to take the role of saving the world. He has surpassed many one-sided, atrocious obstacles throughout his time in the battle school. Through Ender, the readers could understand how the children were brainwashed and isolated from their family, by the adults they followed over a course of 6 years.
Card highlights how Ender was indoctrinated into joining the space military by the uncompromising, desperate adults into believing propagandas. From the monitor …show more content…
About three quarters of the children are under 14 and most were girls. They were employed in carpet, brick and garment industries, or in private homes as domestic workers. The Nepal reveals that the children there agreed with the parents and employers that they are not in labor, but rather as social adoption. Like Ender, Maya was tricked into labor. At age 10, she came to a city to village to visit her uncle, but “little did she know he would force her into becoming one of the country’s estimated 1.6 million child laborers, putting her into work in exchange for money to give her parents”(Admssf). Most of the children in Nepal that are in child labor, are mostly sold away or tricked into it by family members. Both Ender and Maya were tricked into labor to serve others, making them feel as if they disappeared from the family. Maya explained that her “father was an alcoholic and my mother couldn’t take care of me”(Admssf). Through the experiences made by Ender, Card was able to get his readers to realize how little control, the children put in labor, have on their lives: Their “commanders” are very strict to make sure the soldiers are in control and to enforce