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Book Summary: Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

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Ender’s Game The science fiction novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about Ender Wiggins a child genius. Ender is the third in the family. He wears a monitor that allows the head of the military to see what Ender does. At the age of six Ender beats Stillson a bully to death even though he didn't know at the time. He was chosen to help save the world from buggers. Although Ender is a strong player he is also weak because he is easily manipulated. Adults in the novel are always manipulating Ender so that he can fill in their requirements. Ender Didn't want to be like Peter a cold hearted killer. He didn't want to kill anybody. But Graff didn't understand that. He tricked Ender on thinking that the real war was a game. For instance, it states “ I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it” (Card 391). Graff knew that Ender wouldn't have done it because he has a sensitive heart. So he took it into his hands he tricked him. It was the only way that they would win the war if they have Ender to kill them all. In short, Ender is a weak player because he is easily tricked. …show more content…

He didn't want to leave his sister for 16 years. He loved his sister so much he didn't want to be apart. The international Fleet needed him to beat the buggers at war. For instance, it states “ The sister is our weak link. He loves her… He won't want to leave her. So what are you going to do? Persuade him that he wants to come with us more than he wants to stay with her… I’ll lie to him” (Card 16). They knew that he didn't want to leave her so they had to trick him into thinking that he want to go with him. They tricked him from the beginning. To summarize Ender was getting tricked since the

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Ender doesn’t like hurting people much at the beginning but towards the end he becomes a soldier and a killer. Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter. This quote shows that Ender doesn’t want to turn out violent like his older brother, but the government forced him to.

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To win the battle, Ender’s ability to understand the bugger's tactics was needed, but his empathy for the buggers was not. Since Ender Wiggin didn’t want to injure anyone, in fear of becoming like his brother, they made him believe that what he was doing was just a practice simulation and nobody would get damaged by it. By not telling Ender, the authorities were able to get him to command against the buggers and ultimately save the human race. Having Ender assume he was fighting Mazer Rackham gave him motivation to win the final battle because he didn’t want Mazer to win. For example, Ender states, “I won’t let you beat me unfairly---

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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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Children Games Ender’s neck was getting choked out like a crocodile had a hold of him, but the thing is it was just his brother. Aren't “brothers” always there for you well for Ender’s family it was like a constant competition between the kids. In the book the saying isolation was often put with success. Such a young child could be so talented that he saved the whole world's estance. But Peter took control of Earth with ease, showing children are truthly special.

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the hook the author used to keep the reader wanting to read Ender's Game Was getting the Reader to want to see what Ender becomes at the end of the book. The theme to Ender's Game is about war and intellect. Ender had a monitor on the back of his neck once it got taken off a bully and his crew came to beat up Ender than Ender took down the leader of the group and did something so the others wouldn't seek revenge, after that graff came and talked to Ender to join battle School Ender said yes. once Ender got to B.S. he started out as a launchie and then went to salamander Army. after Ender became the number one soldier in battle School he was given a army called Dragon Army.

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Graff pushes Ender to his limit a lot and Ender gets tired of getting manipulated sometimes and causes him to get angry: “Dink was right, they were the enemy, they loved nothing and cared for nothing and he was not going to do what they wanted, he was damn well not going to do anything for them, He had only one memory that was safe, one good thing, and those bastards had plowed it into him with the rest of the manure-”( 151-152). At the Battle School evil thrives in the environment and people’s villainous side comes out. In the novel, other settings have an evil environment too. While Ender has to deal with problems in the Battle School in space, Ender’s family deals with the war that's bound to come on Earth. War remains a threat throughout most of the novel on Earth.

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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.

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“Just as the next blow was coming, Ender reached up with both hands, snatched the boy by his wrist, and then pulled down on the arm, hard.” () Card and his somewhat applaudable idea of power did not view it sufficient enough for Ender to request the aid of an adult. But did envision Ender reinforcing the agony brought upon him, promulgating his power in such a way he experiences yet another unintended consequence. “…the boy was feeling exactly the pain Ender had meant him to feel…I am Peter. I’m just like him.

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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

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My book report is on "Ender 's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Ender 's Game is a military sci-fi book that has received many awards. The author did continue the series on Ender, however the military aspect of it did not continue with the series. Ender Wiggins was only allowed to born so that he can save the human race from exstinction. Since birth he was a outcast, hated by his brother Peter, and constantly being hurt by everyone except his sister Valentine.

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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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After Peter appears in the mirror, Ender fears more that he is turning into his overly-violent brother. This part of the game shows a visible aspect of Ender that he can get out of situations easily, but he uses a lot of force to do

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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.

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At this point he is admitting fault with lying to Ender about the battles just being a game, and not the actual war. At this point in the book, Card intends that the reader catches on to the fact that Ender dislikes lying, if the reader has not done so already. After this point in the book, Ender does not tell a lie, but only tells the truth. This is how Ender was able to rise up as a person from such a traumatic event, and learn quickly that lying is never the answer, and that it will result in nothing good in the end. Ender even admits earlier that Colonel Graff was indeed right in his speculation of Ender not being able to kill off the bugger species if he had known exactly what he was doing.

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