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Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender is the main character in the book Ender’s Game. He lives in a world where mostly everything is controlled by the government. At first, I feel sympathy for him because he is a “Third” (A third child) which wasn’t accepted by other people. Further on in the story Ender realizes that there are some benefits of being a third. His brother Peter was smart and very aggressive. His sister Valentine was also smart but too nice and gentle. Ender being the third has both of their characteristics being the perfect kid that Graff (officer like person) and the people above him needed. Although his problem being a Third might not be that bad, I feel sympathy for him because he is chosen by Graff and the International Fleet …show more content…

Therefore it makes the story easier to imagine and picture. Since the book has more information and details, it interests me when I read something that didn’t happen in the movie. I am starting to like this book and hope to read on.

This book is said to have many good quotes. I found one quote that suggests how people act about warfare. “I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.” (Orson Scott Card 7) This quote is what helps Ender make his decision to kick the bully that has been picking on him. The quote is pretty self explanatory and it suggests that Ender should end the bully from picking on him for once and for all instead of leaving him alone and getting picked on again on the next day. In the end, Ender does actually end the bullying by kicking the bully over and over.

I have realized that at the start of every chapter so far, there are usually two or more people who are in a higher rank in the International Fleet Command that are talking about Ender. It seems to me that they know everything about Ender and that they are going to use him in some way. I have also realized that discussion they have foreshadows the events of the chapter. I really like how the author put this in because it gives a mysterious setting for the reader and we would probably recognize that it will be very important further on in the

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He is a very different character from the other characters in the book. He has his own way of thinking from the other characters he can knows how to handle things that are thrown at him. Mostly the constant pressure. His actions are thought out he just simply knows what he is doing. Ender has a very unique personality no character in this book has personality that relates to his.

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This is another statement that I see often inn the book and agree have with. On this subject kessel writes “The extreme situation Card has constructed to isolate and abuse Ender guarantees our sympathy.   After Ender is manipulated into entering Battle School, (he’s brought there by lies severing him from Valentine, his only protector) his abuse continues, deliberately fostered by Graff. On the shuttle up to the orbiting school Graff singles Ender out for praise for the sole purpose that the other recruits will resent him.

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I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist” (Card, 279). Ender begins to recapitulate his actions during his colloquial conversation with his sister Valentine his ruthless ways formulated in the battle school. His statement describes him taking murderous actions and wanting to decimate his enemies. Through his statement it his evident that the battle school has formed him into a killer, for he states he attacks them until they don’t exist, implying

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In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender is continually set up against impossible odds by the International Fleet, which is part of a plan to train Ender to fight in the Third Invasion and end the bugger wars forever. Ender’s trials are portrayed more convincingly in the book, as the book shows him struggling with the expectations placed upon him more so than in the movie. An important theme in Ender’s Game is that Ender is continually kept in the dark about the events happening around him. This theme is prevalent throughout the book, and sets the stage for the book’s climax, the Third Invasion.

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Throughout the movie, Ender was portrayed as a brilliant and gifted boy, despite his young age. In comparison to the book, in which he was shown as very insightful and quick-witted, the film didn’t show the skillful side of him during the battles. As for physical characteristics, the author originally wrote the character as a blonde, fragile child, about six years old during the beginning of the story, but in the movie, the character was taller, seemingly ten years old, and brunette. Since the book focused more on the psychological aspect of Ender, the reader is able to see in depth how much he blamed himself for wounding others, whilst in the film, he seemed to be detached from the pain he caused. In the course of the movie, it is not explicitly

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Ender had his own set of morals before he went to Battle School, and he simply ignored them when peer pressure came into play. Ender knew he was being manipulated, he just did nothing to stop it. This is yet another reason why I believe Ender is

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Books are the ideal way to introduce a reader to the many morals of the human society. In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender, is drafted by the international fleet to lead multiple fleets of ships in combat against an alien species, but he does not realize that he was drafted for that purpose. Ender is sent to Battle School, where he becomes a true archetypal leader, and he gains many valuable friends that help him along the way. At a hidden asteroid, Ender begins what he believes are simulations, but really is the Third Invasion.

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On Earth there was a bully named, Stilson. Ender found himself getting physically abused by him daily and when he finally got his opportunity, he made sure he was never bullied again. In battle school, there was a commander named, Bonzo that threatened to kill him; then, in the same scenario Ender decided to make sure that he would win the war and erase all future battles. In argument with Major Anderson, Graff states, “Ender’s not a killer. He just wins--thoroughly” (226).

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Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.

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However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.

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