Analysis Of Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game Rough Draft

Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. In the novel, a boy named Ender is sent to battle school to learn how to fight the buggers. Ender quickly climbs to the top of his class, and the better he gets, the more of a threat he becomes to the other students. During Ender’s journey, he makes a few friends and many enemies. Throughout the journey, he become more skilled in combat. He ultimately achieves the army’s goal of defeating the buggers. At the end of Ender's journey, it is obvious he learned his most valuable lessons from Bonzo, Colonel Graff, and The Hive Queen .

Enders first teacher is the leader of the Salamander army, Bonzo. Bonzo’s neglect of Ender showed him how not to lead and how not

Graff teaches Ender independence and manipulation through Graff’s example and the way he treats him. When Graff and General Pace were talking, Pace told Graff he was pushing Ender too hard, and Graff admits to this. Graff claims “Obviously. But the connection is there. Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in anyway. He must believe, to the core of his soul, that he can only do what he and the other children work out for themselves. If he does not believe that, then he will never reach the peak of his abilities.” (239-240). Graff isolates Ender, so Ender believes that he has to do everything on his own and to teach Ender that he does not need anybody because he has himself. This also forces Ender to put all his focus on battle school and the buggers. Another thing Graff does that Ender picks up on is Graff’s manipulation. Not only does Graff manipulate Ender to go to battle school, but all throughout school he gets Ender to do things that Ender didn't know about. Even when Ender defeated the buggers, he did not know he had done it, because he thought it was a game. Graff stated “of course we tricked you into it. That's the whole point’ Graff said. “It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. It's the bind we were in.”(342). Ender becomes mad at Graff for this because he used the killer and the empathetic side of him to defeat the

She teaches Ender forgiveness and compassion. When Ender first found the Hive Queen he was nervous, and did not know what would happen. After they talked, Ender realized the buggers are just like humans. They just want to live and not have to fight anymore. Ender realized if The Hive Queen can forgive him for killing all of their people, then Ender should be able to get people to forgive the buggers for killing so many humans. Ender stated to the Hive Queen “If you could make them feel as you make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.”(365). Ender wants to now show people that the buggers are not bad and if they can forgive humans for killing their whole species, then humans should be able to forgive them as well. Another thing Ender learned from the Hive Queen was compassion. When Ender fist meets the HIve Queen he almost starts to cry. He feels bad for killing the buggers, even though they probably would have killed all the humans. Ender thinks “there flashed through his mind a dozen images of human beings being killed by buggers, but with the image came a grief so powerful he could not bear it, and he wept her tears for them.”(365). Ender empathizes with a species he doesn't even know because he knows what he did to them unknowingly was so terrible. Ender become the Speaker For the Dead to bring awareness for the buggers. In the end, the Hive Queen shows him that forgiveness and compassion can be shown