In this scene we can virtually see the whole fight happening between Ender and Bonzo. We can see that Bonzo tried to round house Ender but changes directions into a leap. Ender predicts the movement, goes in closer to Bonzo and ends up getting slapped on the back. As Bonzo tried to grip Ender, Ender lunges at Bonzo, causing Ender 's head to smack against Bonzo face that kills him.
Comparing Ender’s experience with Salamander and Rat army; when Salamander army’s leader Bonzo first meets Ender he immediately sees him as someone who has no potential and will be an obstacle in the games. While Rat army’s leader Rose first believed that Ender had potential but then learned that Bonzo had lied to him when they had traded Ender and wanted him to be gone. Contrasting Ender’s experience with both armies; Salamander army was organized and precise, whereas Rat army was a bit immature and accepted Ender somewhat quickly.
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.
This chapter reminds me of how I used to handle problem in real life like Ender that trying to defense myself but sometimes I accidentally hurting someone that even I don’t realize it, like how Ender defense himself so that the problem will not occurs again but he ended up hurting someone in order for his goal to occurs. I dislike this chapter because of how it’s like a set up that was planned by the teachers, that’s why when they fight together in the bathroom teachers was there to help Ender, but they just comes in when the fight was almost over and that Bonzo is injured. “Now the teachers would come. The medical staff. To dress the wounds of Ender’s enemy.
This comes out in the form of subconscious bullying directed towards Bean, who Ender sees
In the book, it is made completely clear that the system of both the Battle School and Command School are breaking Ender down, ultimately demonstrated by Ender being completely bedridden after the Third Invasion due to everything he’s endured. This also happens with the movie’s presentation of the characters, with more characters being sympathetic to Ender. This completely overrides a plot point in the book,
Bonzo, however, releases his anger through violence. Ender can even “see Bonzo’s anger growing hot” when Bonzo goes to attack him in the bathroom (Card 121). Ender notes that “Bonzo’s [anger is] hot, and so it use[s] him” (Card 121). Meaning that if Bonzo was able to control his anger or focus it elsewhere, he wouldn’t feel the need to resort to violence to solve his issues. Eric, unlike Bonzo, is able to redirect his anger so that other people only see a little of it.
The whole time Ender had not been aware he had killed them, and the leaders were manipulating him for his own sake. They explain that they didn’t tell him that he actually killed both Bonzo and Stilson; so that he wouldn’t think of himself as a killer. Throughout the book Ender repeats that he doesn’t want to hurt anyone and doesn’t like that he has to be violent in order to be safe. If Ender would’ve found out, it would destroy his motivation and drive to want to be the best he can be. All in all, Ender is an overall better person because of the fact he didn’t know the
Ender’s anger usually came in the form of “cold” anger, meaning he could use it to his advantage. When Ender learned he could exploit his anger for good, he decided that, “.... with that anger… he was strong enough to defeat them…his enemies “ ( 172). When all the pressure around Ender built up and finally came out, it was after he found out he had killed the buggers, and he had slept for “five days of the league war” (300). Ender has had smaller outbursts and reactions before this, but sleeping for five days while a post bugger-killing war is going on shows that he was really affected by his act of
This causes problems only to himself when he refuses to acknowledge Ender’s potential in battles making him look foolish to other characters. Violence and revenge is his way to solve his problems, but it ultimately fails and creates more. He doesn’t enforce discipline but destroys
Scott Macarthy Mr. Werley English III 22 September 2014 The Destruction of Ender A utopia is supposed to be a perfect world, yet there are rarely any true utopias. Ender’s Game begins with a utopic society, where the government pits Earth against the nasty and evil buggers. Throughout Ender 's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, the reader follows the main protagonist, Ender, from his journey as a young boy on Earth to the hopes of being the next great commander in the fight against the buggers.
And Ender hated himself.” () Virtually identical to the emotional consequence Ender formerly suffered from Stilson, delineates his sentiments regarding Bernard; Card not developing on his idea in the slightest, keeping Ender’s own hatred of himself and the potential individual he apparently mocks
Calculating Judgments For someone so young, Ender is exceptionally calculating. In almost the very beginning of the novel, the author shows Ender being bullied by Stilson and his gang. Ender realizes that he must thoroughly beat Stilson so the rest of the gang wouldn’t pick on Ender ever
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.
When Ender was talking to himself he said,”the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you’re always subject to those who can, and no one will ever save you,”(Card pg.212). This shows that inaction can make people prone to lose against people who have power can have power over them because inaction leaves them open and defenseless to those they could restrain. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Ender is referring to the fight against Stilson, Bonzo, and Bernard because if he had waited for the teachers to respond to call for help they would’ve overpowered him and he would’ve lost. After ender defeated the buggers Mazer Rackham told Ender, “you made the hard choice, boy. All or nothing.
