Analysis Of Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card

Everyday thousands of children are filled with dreadful feelings of sorrow and anguish from the horrors of bullying. One hundred and sixty thousand students skip school in fear of bullying. Two hundred and eighty two thousand students in secondary schools are left traumatized as they are physically attacked by their bullies each month. Half of suicides amongst young children are associated with bullying. Today, a bully is known to be the harasser of the weak; to possess power and victory over their victims. Ender, on the other hand, has power and victory over his bullies; he has multiple strengths to stand up to the cruel actions of his bullies. Weakness is such a trait that does not exist within Ender when confronted with his bullies. When one is consistently faced with bullying then one is provoked to use their …show more content…
Should one go up against their bully independently as opposed to obtaining help, they are more probable to revealing their strengths. As an outcome, the forms of strength that are likely to be used are intellectual and physical. These abilities are evidently established through Ender’s interference with his bullies in the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. To begin with, when Ender confronts his opponents independently facing the constant bullying from them, he then is more likely to attack his opponents harshly with the purpose of defending himself. Ender experiences a boy who hits him on the back of his head over and over, but when no help is given, Ender immediately shows aggression towards the boy. It is specified that Ender is more provoked to attacking his bully when he is faced with them independently, “If Graff was setting him up, there’d be no help unless he helped himself” (Card