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.
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.
In the book Ender’s Game, Ender starts out as a little boy who was a third and would get bullied. Over the past chapters Ender has changed overtime because of the battle school, Bonzo, and the giant game. The reason why battle school changed Ender was because it made him tougher and made him realize that he can’t always rely on his sister to help him. During battle school he met Bonzo which was a great example of what not to do, knowing Bonzo improved how Ender thought of things.
Soon, Ender landed on a planet and a few days later and realized he was on the giant's game and Ender found a Queen's egg over a mountain in a castle and traveled everywhere to let the queen hatch. when she was ready on a planet and start a new colony. Connell Graff is the director at Battle school and Graff teaches Ender to be a better commander. Soon after Ender goes to Command school and he´s new teacher is Mazer Rackham. Enders compassion is the element that generates his success as a human being as shown through his great love for Valentine as shown through his acceptance of his ruthless brother, and his dedication to helping the buggers survive.
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.
The fact that Ender saved every human being on Earth cannot be under emphasized, in fact it’s simply irrational to think that Ender could be a villain while saving his entire race in the most logical manner. Even Colonel Hyrum Graff (who had been unwilling to show any legitimate praise towards Ender throughout the majority of the book) said [“You’re a hero, Ender. They’ve seen what you did, you and the others. I don’t think there’s a government on Earth that hasn’t voted you their highest medal”](Kindle page 208) It’s possible that the lawyers prosecuting Ender were unaware of the fact that they would be dead if it was not for him, his military intuition was what spared them from the merciless and unforgiving wrath of the buggers.
However, his friends now regard him as a teacher and “legendary soldier”. They stopped including Ender in their friendly conversations. Ender yearns to be a part of his old company but is frustrated at being excluded instead. This is evident from Ender’s realisation of his exclusion by his friends to for which he states “How could they think I was part of it? Did I laugh?
Though each member of the family testified that they never believed him dead for a moment, the stress of the possibility weighed on them constantly. Comparably, the last time Ender ever saw his parents was at the age of six, at which point he was flown off to Battle School. After training for years there, he was a very different person, and was most likely barely recognizable to his parents. His older sister, Valentine, was the only member of the family permitted to see Ender when he went back to Earth for a short period of time. After winning the war, his parents were notified that it was, in fact, their son who had saved the planet from utter destruction by the Buggers, but whether it was was the son they had raised or one who had been hardened by the stress of competitive schooling was unclear.
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,
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).
His compassion is proven many times, and one of them is the fact that he hates that he feels just like Peter. If Ender had no compassion, why would he have regretted acting like Peter? Ender is also very sympathetic to Bean (even though Ender tries not to show it) and Ender would see himself in Bean, how small and young Bean is but still so determined. Ender initially realizes that he is isolating Bean because Ender himself was once isolated and he wants to force Bean to flourish like Ender did. Ender also has so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, and could understand and anticipate them.
After going into space for battle training, he becomes isolated from the other students immedetaly. Ender overcoming challenges finally begins to be accepted by the other students, only to be transferred and isolated again.
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.
On April 11, 1945, Harry J. Herder Jr. and his company discovered one of the many secret horrors of World War II that dotted the European landscape; the Buchenwald concentration camp. The battle hardened man who had seen his fair share of death and human suffering surveyed the camp with a sinking feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach. Before his eyes lay human beings so starved they could not pick themselves up off of their bunks, children who had never seen the outside of the camp fence, partially clothed bodies and shaved heads. Shocked and disgusted, Harry J. Herder Jr. and two of his comrades then took a deeper tour of the camp. Eerie, and abandoned by the German soldiers lay the “medical rooms” with human organs floating in jars of liquid and the gallows where unruly prisoners were hung.
In the beginning, before Ender left Earth, Ender used to get bullied in school by another kid named Stilson. It came to a point when Ender had to defend for himself. Stilson and his friends bullied Ender, so in order for them to leave Ender alone, he shows his aggression by constantly kicking Stilson while he was down. Ender did that to prevent Stilson or his friends from hurting him again. After leaving the room, he feels terrible because of the fact that he’s passionate and he didn’t want to hurt Stilson.
