Overcoming Obstacles In Ender's Game

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Overcoming obstacles and challenges are a huge success in lives of people.In enders game, ender overcomes many challenges that help him grow to be a better commander.Overcoming obstacles in my life is important because the obstacles help shape how we act.Overcoming obstacles as a family is also important it helps us gain each other's trust in stressful situations.Overcoming obstacles in life is very important because it helps shape us and how we act.

In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, ender has overcome many challenges being a third. In the novel Ender's game, ender deals with an internal struggle for mortality because he doesn't want to turn out like the peter.But in battle school, ender has a hard time because they want him to have a killer attitude but he doesn't want to turn out like Peter or be a killer.In the novel Ender's game, they try to isolate ender so that he can learn to be alone and not to depend on others.When ender became isolated he was losing himself but he knew what they were doing so he played along.In enders game, ender overcame being a third by rising to the top and helping himself get to the top.In The novel Ender's game he overcomes his enemies the nice way and the bad way but in the end, the bad way always worked but the nice way never worked.

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