Similar Themes In Ender's Game By Orsen Scott Card

Ender and Jonas both come from two different settings, yet they still have similar challenges and take similar paths.In ender’s game written by Orsen Scott Card ,Ender must go through a difficult training at the same age as Jonas- twelve. In Ender’s training he must fight in a three dimensional, zero gravity arena. He gets shot at by special guns, which paralyse his suit and often get’s hurt.Ender is also isolated from the rest of his group and as soon as he starts making friends he is moved away. The giver written by Lois Lowry.Jonas becomes the receiver which means he must be trained by the giver. During this training he must receive memories. This can cause him pain depending on which memories, he is told he is not allowed to take any pain …show more content…
Ender lives in the future where the human race is at war with an alien race called the buggers.He must leave his family to go train and fight these aliens. Jonas doesn’t have to go far from home to go to his trainer, the giver. Unlike ender he sees his family and friends and isn’t too far from home. He bikes there. Another example is that Ender is a bit more violent than Jonas. On earth Ender had gotten into a fight with a boy and beat him. Again on the space station ender gets in a fight,this time with his team captain. After the fight the team leader is sent back to earth for the amount of damage caused by Ender. He takes role as the new captain.Finally at the end of the book Ender uses the human race’s greatest war machine to exterminate the buggers. He feels guilty and back on a secret human that used to be a bugger planet he finds the queen bugger. And an egg, so he sets off the find any bugger colonies. In the book the giver it doesn’t say anything about Jonas being violent. These actions committed by Ender proves my point, Ender and Jonas have different personalities. Ender has violent tendencies, after all he is trained to be a warrior . Jonas isn’t violent, he sees his family during his training and stays near by. Ender doesn’t speak to his family for months and sees his sister briefly. Then he is sent to a top secret base, that is light years away from earth, he is no longer allowed to see his family or return to earth because he’s been there. In conclusion Ender travels far far awar from his family, with no friends, and has violent tendencies. Jonas stays near his home sees his family daily, along with his friends. And isn’t a violent