Ender Wiggin Thesis

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.” (Sander). We as people have always questioned what humans are really doing, but never question what we are too scared know the answer to. In the novel, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a Highly intelligent child is taken in by an International military school to find the next “Mazer,” by a man named Graff, to save the world from destruction by the hostile alien race known as the Buggers. Years later, Ender meets Mazer Rackham, a famous soldier that won against the second invasion of the buggers. Mazer puts Ender though several simulated battles that turned out to be real. Peter takes over the world, and Valentine …show more content…
The children are ranked and labeled by their place in the family, and the families are judged by the number of kids they have, and as a matter of fact, the main protagonist, Ender, is labeled as a “Third” in the story, a child who was the third to bear in the family, and is bullied by other kids because of the fact that he was the third child to be born in his family, even by his older brother, Peter. Not only...but also, but the relationships between children and adults are controlled by social standards as well. Children and adults are forced into a specific relationship set out for them. They can’t build any structure of a relationship on their own, they can only build onto the relationship, if the government needs them to do so, as they must follow the standards laid down. “Graff can’t express his feelings behind the mask he is expected to have” (Abbie), and the parents can’t actually “love” their children, but they understand them. Ender can’t love his parents, and neither can his parents love him, or build a relationship with them, which just proves more of his isolation. The very incredible thing about this aspect of the story is that, this is what builds the main structure of the story. Without this part of the story, it wouldn’t create an interesting character such as Ender if he wasn’t forced to be Isolated by the relationship children and adults they have with each other. Their ranking of the families worth by how many kids they have, and the fact that they are forced to be in a certain relationship with each other but can’t build anything on it without being given permission to do