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Bullying In Ender's Game

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The Ends Justify the Means
The viscous bullies who get away with their bullying. The adults who fail to protect. The leaders who tell brutal lies. Ender Wiggin, a third, has to suffer all of these to save the human race from the buggers. At the beginning of this science fiction novel, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin faced a difficult choice. He was bullied by Stilson, a school boy, who pushed Ender. Ender decided that he had no choice except fight back, so he knocked Stilson to the ground. However, Ender realized that he could walk away and expect to face him again the next day, or kick him while he’s down. In order to win all future fights he kicked Stilson while he was down, killing him. Ender did not know he actually killed Stilson. This act of violence won Ender a place in Battle School. Colonel Graff, from battle school, manipulated Ender into entering. Humanity was at war with aliens, known as buggers, and battle school was the training ground for future commanders. …show more content…

However, Ender was actually the fleet commander of the third invasion. Ender was happy to hear that he would be going through final examination, because he was very tired of it all. But, when he saw the battle he realized he was vastly outnumbered. He didn’t even want to play but decided that he would win an unfair battle. Ender won the battle by destroying the planet that the enemy lived on, and the room exploded in cheers. Mazer told Ender he was the actual commander of the Third Invasion and he just destroyed the buggers (Card 203-207). After Ender won the final battle, he was the only one who did not celebrate. He felt sad and angered, because he destroyed the buggers. He believes he should have had a choice. Graff and Rackham manipulated him, into playing the game. However, their manipulation was the right thing to do for the survival of

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The fleet consist of his best friends from Battle School. They practice and train together and fight the battles against the buggers in the simulation. Mazor tells Ender how we won against the buggers and then they watch the video of the old battles. Ender begins to have bad dreams of the buggers and now barely sleeps. He becomes ill for a few days.

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Ender says, “I can’t do this” (252). Despite this, Ender and his army win the battle, which is exactly what the I.F. desired. The I.F. are more concerned about Ender receiving all of the training that he possibly can, so that he could be ready to fight the buggers sooner than later. This form of manipulation comes at a cost to the physical health of Ender. It leaves Ender continually exhausted, which is not good for a growing boy, like Ender.

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Through the rest of the chapters Ender goes through a lot of things like succeeding in battle school which is in space by the way, he kept getting switched to different schools and he gets his own army called Dragon Army, and they win every battle. When Colonel Graff takes Ender to command school, where the readers finds out Ender killed Bonzo and Stilson, Ender later finds out though, Ender also fund out that the game was real war and that he killed the buggers off and he feels bad about it. Ender finally finds out he killed Bonzo and Stilson when he watches Colonel Graff’s trial (Colonel Graff was found not guilty). So, in the end Valentine, Enders sister convinced Ender to move away to another new colony with her, the buggers found a way to talk to Ender telepathically saying how they’re sorry they killed people, they forgive humans for wiping them out and the history of the Bugger species. They leave Ender a queen pupa which means he can restart the species.

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Evidence #1: While in Battle School, ender pushes the soldiers of his toon to their breaking limit, just so that they would win the next battle. b. Evidence #2: When ender blows up the buggers’ planet he kills many of his soldiers’ ships in the process. c. Analysis: By putting winning above his soldiers’ well-being he is putting his need to win above his soldiers’ health. This demonstrates that Ender is selfish. In addition consequently he kills many of his soldiers in the final battle, proving that not only does he put his needs above his soldiers’ well-being he also puts his needs above the soldiers’ lives.

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At the end of the novel is where Ender achieves the most power. When Mazer Rackham didn’t lie per say, however, deceived Ender by not explaining that the “simulations” were no longer a game, but real life war against the buggers. Ender finds out the was no game when he finishes the “simulations” and Mazer Rackham says, “Congratulations. You beat them.... This was the Third invasion...

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Ender was tasked with leading a platoon when he was in command. He led the platoon through battles against the buggers. Unknowingly, he was fighting off the buggers that entire time. He sacrificed some of his men to kill more buggers. Those men died and Ender at such a young age has to comprehend that he killed people unknowingly.

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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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“Ender, however, was trying to figure out a way to forestall vengeance. To keep them from taking him in a pack tomorrow. I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.” (Card, page 7) This led to Ender

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32) Colonel Graff set Ender up. Colonel Graff made all the kids around him seem like Ender was his favorite to get kids to pick on him and to see how Ender would handle it. Just as Colonel Graff thought, kids started picking on

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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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When Ender kills Stilson and Bonzo, Colonel Graff immediately defends Ender by saying those kids deserved to die. Another point is, when Ender beats the simulated Giant game. He is the only one that has ever done so. The last necessary plot is when Ender leads the Dragon Army to win every battle they were in. It shows that no one can beat Ender and it also represents that Ender is the quintessential recruit that the I.F. needs.

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This was one of the reasons why he was the perfect choice to be the commander. He also had a tremendous amount of guilt after (unknowingly) killing all the buggers and the pilots he and the squad leaders had controlled. This guilt would only be resolved when Ender finds a purpose as Speaker for the Dead and finding a safe place for the egg to

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After finishing the war with the buggers, Ender finds out that whatever pilots he sacrificed in the

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End them or end us. But heaven knows there was no other way you could’ve done it,” (Card pg.296). This shows that Mazer knew that if they had done nothing during the fight against the bugger humanity would be in danger because the buggers would’ve came back to wipe out humanity. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Mazer said that it was, “all or nothing”, which meant that they could do everything they could and win or do nothing and lose. These quotes prove that inaction leads to loss because throughout Ender’s Game the characters like Ender and Mazer have been through battles where they know that if they don’t do anything at all

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General Graff’s goal is for Ender to have an aggressive approach and a killer instinct yet able to understand the buggers nature and relate to them. Ender still doesn’t truly want to destroy the buggers. Since he is manipulated, Ender kills all of them, if it was up to him he would leave them alone and try to communicate with them somehow. But what is done is done since they attacked first assumptions can be made that they are trying to take over the human world, so precautions must be taken. For Ender he needs to choose to save humans or the

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