Ender's Shadow

The Leadership Qualities of Ender Wiggin Ender’s Game by Orson Card has been a popular science fiction novel for the past three decades. Since its inception the book has claimed two highly respected awards. In addition it has even become a highly recommended reading material for several military education facilities for new officers. This novel highlights four basic qualities that make up the basis of a good commanding officer. The first quality needed for a leader to succeed is gaining the…

food. Yet, no sane person disputes the immorality of genocide; likewise, no sane person celebrates when a genocide has taken place. By these standards nearly every human in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is insane. Ender Wiggin may be the only sane person, yet he is the celebrated killer in question. Ender’s good intentions do nothing to alter his status as a killer. And the child did not stop at killing his childhood bully or the older boy who meant to kill him, Ender only stops once he…

Synthesis Essay: Child Soldiers Fear. Trickery. Violation. These inhuman techniques, used by child soldier commanders, destroy children’s childhoods. Within the science fictional book, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Andrew “Ender” Wiggins, a precocious pre-teen, was specifically birthed to take the role of saving the world. He has surpassed many one-sided, atrocious obstacles throughout his time in the battle school. Through Ender, the readers could understand how the children were…

In Ender’s Game, I would like to be friends with Ender. Ender is the main character in the story, and I would want to be friends with him because he is strong, bright, decisive, and also independent. In the story, I read many times where Ender faced challenges, but even though it seemed impossible to do, he still managed to do his best and win. One example was when he was eight years old Ender transferred armies to a new army and became the commander for them. There were many challenges to…

Enders Game, a novel writer by Orson Scott Card, is a look into the experience of a great young mind in a time of peril. Andrew “Ender” Wiggins is chosen as a candidate to become a warrior trained to lead an Army in a time of need. He is chosen at the age of 6, but he is believed to have what it takes to grow and breed into becoming a significantly great leader in his society. This novel takes place in a futuristic world where the civilization and human race is in danger. At the beginning of the…

Ender’s Game is a 1985 military sci-fi novel written by Orson Scott Card, and like other novels, is accommodated by various themes and motifs. In this essay, I will cover one of the motifs that have been sited in the novel—games. In the novel, there are five games in total (excluding the one in the novel’s title): the Mind Game (also known as the Fantasy Game, or the Giant’s Drink), the Game and Battle Room, the simulator in Eros, and the game of “Astronauts and Buggers” that Peter and Ender…

Ender’s Game relation to modern day Far too often, human beings perform nefarious actions based on a prejudice that is either false or simply irrelevant. Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game is based off of preconceptions humans had on a foreign species known as “Buggers”. The main character Ender is assigned the task of working with other gifted children, like himself, to perform a complete genocide on this unfamiliar species. Ender learns much about the buggers and himself…

The book “Ender’s Game” has been a classic for a long time. It has a lot of action going on in the plot, but there is a deeper meaning. The primary theme of this book is to have compassion towards others, no matter how you feel about them. The book “Ender’s Game” starts with Ender having a normal life on earth, but then he gets his monitor, a device which allows government officials to see and hear what he does, removed. After that he was approached by Colonel Graff and went out to the battle…

“There is no teacher but the enemy.” Mazer Rackham, a character in Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, teaches this lesson to the main character of the story, Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. His statement has a prominent significance to the theme of the novel and it can be applied to several vexatious situations throughout Ender’s life. In Ender’s Game, Ender has several adversaries that he learns from, and each one teaches him something new. One of these enemies was his own brother, Peter Wiggin.…

(Ender from Ender's game) Whereas, the other boy lost all his powers, thus being deported to a powerless colony, Is the reason behind a problem that can endanger the earth and all living beings but is the only one who can fix it (Taemon from Freakling). Both of the boys are heroes in the end although their stories seem different.. After reading Freakling by Lana Krumwiede and watching the film production of Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, I have come to a conclusion; Ender’s Game and…