Reflective Essay On Ender's Game

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I have just finished reading you book Ender’s Game and let me just say it was amazing. I love the way you wrote Ender to be such a deep character from how he felt about the buggers to the way he viewed life.
I admired when Ender told us how “It’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming who you pretend to be”. This quote is so true and you see it a lot in the real world like when you are pretending to be someone else for a while you eventually start acting like that person all the time.
After reading your book i wondered what would happen to the world if Ender was actually in the ship that blew up the planet. Would he have blown up the planet and let down the world. Or would he have done it and made the world happy and made people like

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