Ender Wiggin has been a pawn in others’ lives his whole life. He never truly was given a real choice in anything, he was manipulated into thinking the choice the adults want him to make is the right decision. Kessler says Ender should not be pitied for being manipulated into committing genocide. Although many others feel that Ender had no part in deciding to kill all the Buggers, he thought it was just a “game.” First off, Ender has been physically and emotionally abused his whole life. Emotional abuse as a child can cause aggressive and violent behavior throughout their life, no matter how old they are. Physical abuse as a child can cause periods of apathy where the victim is apathetic for a period of time. These are obvious explanations …show more content…
Ender was a “third” this was not normal in the society he grew up in, so he was picked of often by children at school and by his brother at home causing social isolation and sadness in Ender. This makes all of Ender’s anger bottle up inside of him since he has no release. So when Stilson provokes Ender after school, all of Ender’s anger unleashes itself on Stilson causing Ender to kill him. Ender always had good intentions, he just never carried out what he was doing in a way that it ended well. When Ender destroyed the planet and its’ defenders in the simulation, he was trying to make the adults think he were crazy so he could get out of command school. What he didn’t know, was that it wasn’t a simulation, it was a real battle against the buggers. Ender never really wanted to kill, he was manipulated and abused into it by the adults and his peers. Ender had little social interaction at battle school and command school, he wanted to go home. Many people feel bad for Ender since he lived a life controlled by adults and other people, but never himself. Ender didn’t make more than 10 decisions without being manipulated. Ender would be a good person if other people didn’t mess him up from the