The Unjustifiable Acts In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, six year olds are trained to become soldiers. They are manipulated into fighting and killing in order to save humanity. Meanwhile, the adults in the novel do not protest to such behavior and consider it better for humanity. The characters Colonel Graff and Mazer Rackham’s actions towards Ender are clearly unjustifiable. Graff’s actions are inexcusable because he manipulates and isolates Ender from the group. Mazer Rackham’s actions are also unforgiveable because he gets physical with Ender and lies to him. Firstly, Colonel Graff’s actions are unjustifiable because he abuses Ender in many ways. One way he abuses him is by manipulating him into coming with
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When Ender finally meets Mazer Rackham they don’t talk for many hours and seconds later as Ender is walking to his desk he hits him and has his knee to his head. In Ender’s Game it states that “The old man continued to watch him passively. It seemed to go on for hours…Ender practicing lunges and kicks, one move took him near the old man, as he had come near him before, but this time the old claw shot out and seized Ender’s left leg. Ender got up furiously…He went back to his exercise and got tired and angry, Ender went back to his bed to get his desk. As he reached for his desk he felt a hand jab roughly between his thighs and another hand grab his hair. In a moment he had been turned upside down and his face and shoulder were being pressed down on the floor by the old man’s knee” (Card 303). Mazer Rackham attacks Ender because he wants Ender to believe that he is Ender’s enemy and that he is always about to lose. He shows Ender that the enemy will be stronger and harder to beat and he does that by physically hurting a six year old. Not only did he physically hurt Ender but Mazer Rackham also lied to Ender about the simulation. Mazer Rackham says “So Ender we will now begin your education, we have programmed the computer to simulate the kinds of situation we might expect in encounters with the enemy…I will be controlling the enemy simulation…I will
When Ender finally meets Mazer Rackham they don’t talk for many hours and seconds later as Ender is walking to his desk he hits him and has his knee to his head. In Ender’s Game it states that “The old man continued to watch him passively. It seemed to go on for hours…Ender practicing lunges and kicks, one move took him near the old man, as he had come near him before, but this time the old claw shot out and seized Ender’s left leg. Ender got up furiously…He went back to his exercise and got tired and angry, Ender went back to his bed to get his desk. As he reached for his desk he felt a hand jab roughly between his thighs and another hand grab his hair. In a moment he had been turned upside down and his face and shoulder were being pressed down on the floor by the old man’s knee” (Card 303). Mazer Rackham attacks Ender because he wants Ender to believe that he is Ender’s enemy and that he is always about to lose. He shows Ender that the enemy will be stronger and harder to beat and he does that by physically hurting a six year old. Not only did he physically hurt Ender but Mazer Rackham also lied to Ender about the simulation. Mazer Rackham says “So Ender we will now begin your education, we have programmed the computer to simulate the kinds of situation we might expect in encounters with the enemy…I will be controlling the enemy simulation…I will