Ender's Game

unrestrained, can lead to disaster. Similarly, is the theme of Ender’s Game, a novel written by Orson Scott Card. In Ender’s Game, characters come in conflict between themselves and their own obsession. Their obsessions to control a desired outcome also results in some nondeliberate self-harm, as obsession fails to efficiently address essential problems. In the book, over obsession can be seen as a recurring emotion with Colonel Graff, Ender’s rivals, and the International Fleet. Colonel…

Tyler Kennah, Mrs. Prevost Adv. English 9 4/8/24 Your Past Doesn’t Define You Orson Scott Card’s science fiction “Ender's Game” reveals that if you were bullied, or hated before, that it does not define your future in being a genius. The main character of the book is named Ender. Ender is extremely intelligent as well as innovative, a genius. Ender is a genius because he is quick at thinking, strategic, and thoughtful, he has a wonderful blend of characteristics. However, in the beginning of the…

play with them. However, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game embraces the idea of an adult in a child’s body. The protagonist, Ender Wiggin, is the third child of family geniuses and the only one who qualified for Battle School. At the age of six, he is stripped from his family’s side and is placed with the fate of humanity in his hands. His duty is to destroy the aliens that have invaded Earth and have attempted to destroy the human species twice. Ender’s Game is an intriguing story during the…

Orson Scott Cards Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel set in the distant future, in a time when aliens have already attacked Earth twice and a worldwide birth limit has been imposed to moderate the excessively inflated population. During Ender’s time at the Battle School, Ender, a child, is exposed to many adverse encounters in this dystopian setting. However, it is his internal conflicts involving his principles and the effect of his older brother, Peter, and Colonel Graff, that are the…

the novels Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. In both of the novels, military leaders manipulate their soldiers in a way to create a winning situation. The leaders advantages of using these soldiers come with costs and risks. The costs of wars include a soldier’s mentality during and after the war, physical soldiers, and the costs of what it takes to get something that a military wants. In Old Man’s War and Ender’s Game, the fight for the risks and the outcome…

and the Family (2002), Fifty-three percent of females at the age of thirteen were not satisfied with their bodies; by the age of seventeen this will rise to seventy-eight percent. There are three ways the media has influences young characters in Ender’s Game: they lure them to Battle School, they place ideas in their head about their enemies, and they influence the flow of the war. Media is an extremely dangerous weapon, like a double-edged sword; it can create a positive as well as a negative…

Ender Wiggin Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a novel about a six year old boy named Ender who lives in a time after alien “buggers” attacked Earth and were driven back by a great general called Mazer Rackham. Ender is an extremely bright child chosen to go to battle school, a school in space, to fight in the next bugger war. Ender flies through the ranks and becomes the greatest commander in the school. He graduates early and is brought to command school on a dwarf planet in the asteroid…

for anybody, as the small garden can mean so much to you, but completely nothing to someone else. In the novel Ender’s Game, the author Orson Scott Card interprets beauty differently than most of us do, as there is a myriad of beauty in compassion, beauty between Ender and Valentine, beauty between war and the games. Compassion is one theme that is explicitly talked about, throughout Ender’s life. It is the beauty that keeps Ender strong and alive. His ability to understand the enemy, the way…

his parents leave him for the first time. (Still need a better hook) It allows him to experience what it’s like to not be coddled all the time. Similar to Ender’s experience after he gets sent to a school for the highly intelligent, in hopes to one day be able to save the human race from Aliens. In Ender’s Game, author Orson Scott Card uses Ender’s growing up in the battle school to illustrate how general isolation often times creates a loss of a childhood innocence and vulnerability to one's…

In the book Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, power is shown through manipulation, control and authority. Frequently the greed for power seems to always increase, along with that is abusing that power. To establish power, control over a group is necessary, manipulation is often the first option to obtain it. Manipulation is the greatest attribute for any leader of a group, the world in “Ender’s Game” is controlled by three main groups, the strategos, polemarchs, and the IF. The…