"Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." -Ender’s Game. Manipulation is a key theme in the book, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Although in this book, it has many themes, Manipulation has a giant role in the life of Ender. The system pits him against the students who highly dislike him for his brilliant intelligence and the teachers just simply make it worse. But with all these thrown at him, Ender is still afraid of Peter and his actions on Earth. All these steps of manipulation make Ender a stronger soldier but yet. a vulnerable boy at heart.
“Its the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate. The game is everything, WIN WIN WIN. It amounts to nothing.’’- (Pg 108 spoken by Dink Meek to Ender …show more content…
Peter manipulates Ender by inflicting pain upon him. But as we see in the book, when Ender kills someone, he thinks he is turning into Peter when in reality it was self defense. Peter’s power over Ender is immense but only in fear. I know fear turns into power, and that power can be over someone. Peter also manipulated Valentine to become Demosthenes, cause if she doesn’t, Peter will probably become the monster he was before Ender left. Fear is power, we know that. But without the fear you have control over what people’s actions do to the world, good or evil causes.
Ender’s Game By Orson Scott has a large role of manipulation. Ender’s story through this struggle of the point of his life shown how, the game system affects him to become a better solidier. His teachers craft him into a better commander. But his brother, his brother’s ruthless power over him changed him into a better person. I learned that sometimes you have to think how others treat you and think of you, instead of being
“Its the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate. The game is everything, WIN WIN WIN. It amounts to nothing.’’- (Pg 108 spoken by Dink Meek to Ender …show more content…
Peter manipulates Ender by inflicting pain upon him. But as we see in the book, when Ender kills someone, he thinks he is turning into Peter when in reality it was self defense. Peter’s power over Ender is immense but only in fear. I know fear turns into power, and that power can be over someone. Peter also manipulated Valentine to become Demosthenes, cause if she doesn’t, Peter will probably become the monster he was before Ender left. Fear is power, we know that. But without the fear you have control over what people’s actions do to the world, good or evil causes.
Ender’s Game By Orson Scott has a large role of manipulation. Ender’s story through this struggle of the point of his life shown how, the game system affects him to become a better solidier. His teachers craft him into a better commander. But his brother, his brother’s ruthless power over him changed him into a better person. I learned that sometimes you have to think how others treat you and think of you, instead of being