Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card’s definition of an outsider conveys an idea that outsiders can see things more clearly and are important to everyone around them. He compliments their stronger sense of self compared to the rest of people in society. Card mentions how an outsider has a unique perspective than everyone else and that great heroic deeds are made by outsiders because of this unique perspective. While there is a notion that outsiders are not important, it is clear that outsiders are necessary in keeping a balanced society because they notice the conflicts insiders don’t and can initiate change. In Ender’s Game, Ender Wiggins challenges the norms in his world as he grows into being the most important commander in history of mankind. He is an exceptional…

Like a little girl mimicking her mother at the vanity table, the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, resembled its predecessor but paid minimal homage to the beloved novel, despite its fancy dresses woven with exquisite graphics and its faint perfumes of action and intensity. By focusing on the general events at Battle School and Command School, the film left out the specific details of Ender’s training experience. Although the movie included essential scenes from the…

Orson Scott Card is the author of the 1985 science fiction novel, Ender’s Game. Card was born in Washington state in 1951. His family moved around a lot when he was young, but he finished high school in Utah in 1969. He later went to college at the University of Utah and got his bachelor's degree in theater, where he sparked an interest in writing. After receiving his degree, Card then briefly ran a repertory theater. Being raised Mormon, his first writing job was with the official magazine of…

In the book Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card shows that isolation can control an individual. Even today, when a person is isolated stress and anxiety can affect your thought process. The main character Ender Wiggin is presented with different conflicts throughout the book. He realizes all through the story that he must take things into his own hands. In the novel, Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card leads the reader on a journey to demonstrate the effects of internal isolation, external isolation and…

In the twenty-second century as set in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, children are recruited for Battle School. They suffer through unimaginable trials for children of their age and still survive. This unlikely feat is explained by Diane Coutu in her article “How Resilience Works,” a study of resilience in modern people and businesses, in which she discusses the three key characteristics of resilience that help people through hardship. In Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card displays children’s…

Ender's Game exercised many different aspects of a child's life. Orson Scott Card does a phenomenal way of showing how Colonel Graff exploited his power in Ender's Game because he sees a lack of maturity in the children, and because of his mindset, he left a negative impact on the children's lives. Taking the youth and brainwashing them to be soldiers was a horrible act that they could get away with. The International Fleet had not been scrupulous when it came to the course materials.…

From the very beginning, man has been ruled by man. In the series Ender's Game, the author Orson Scott Card betrays a form of leadership which may come across as foreign to most. Card depicts a futuristic world in which our world is under attack by an extraterrestrial threat. In order to be prepared for the next war, the government has recruited the assistance of brilliant children, who will lead each other in battle. In this story the main character, Ender was only six years old when he was…

A hero is someone that puts everything important to them behind what’s important for everyone else. Ender fits this description with just his existence alone, his whole purpose is to become the savior of the human race. There is no real choice for him and despite his selflessness, he is not rewarded. His is given challenge after challenge to prove his worth. Then, to defeat the buggers. Ender’s Game, wrote by Orson Scott Card, is a book about leadership, trials, and overcoming said trials. Ender…

Wiggin, the protagonist in the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a third child in a world where having more than two children is obscure. The only reason he was ever born was to become a commander and defeat the alien threat known as the buggers. To do this Ender is conscripted to Battle School, a place where kids are put against each other in null gravity to learn about the tactics of war. Ender soon becomes a commander of his own army and becomes the best anyone has ever seen.…

Violence is a behavior that involves physical abuse, intended to hurt or cause damage to others. Many people use violence because it is in the nature of humanity, and it is something that is released when people feel anger. The novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, has a drastic amount of violence throughout most of the novel. Children are trained at a battle school to defeat an alien race that caused damage to humanity in the past. It is shocking to adults that such a book is claimed to be a…