Much More than Just a Game Classical novels, for everyone other than English teachers and professors, are held in very low regard. Most who read them will say they are boring, devoid of meaning and purpose, and not worth the time it takes to read them. In a way, these once great literary works are precisely as useless as they are characterized because they are portrayed as boring and therefore never read, so their deep inner meanings will never be brought to the light of day. Some books, more modern books, contain views just as profound as the dusty volumes in the back of the library, and are much more likely to be read; Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is one of these books. Ender’s Game, a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel, …show more content…
Card’s first efforts with his theater company, using an old outdoor amphitheater built during the Depression called “The Castle,” were quite successful (“Who Is Orson”). When he tried to move to a refurbished barn in Provo, however, ends didn’t meet (“Who Is Orson”). With the cost of the theater looming over his head, and with only the scrap of a salary Card earned as a copy editor at BYU Press, Card decided to compose his own work (“Who Is Orson”). It took a little bit of time for it to pay off, but it eventually did (“Who Is Orson”). Another reason as to why Card wrote Ender’s Game was his absolute love of science fiction, a genre he discovered as a child and has since held him in its embrace (“Who Is Orson”).
In her presentation, Summersville high school English teacher Jaylynn Meyers gives many definitions and criteria of a classic (“Classics”). One of these points, and arguably the most important, is a classic holds limitless meaning (“Classics”). Ender’s Game easily succeeds in this area, as the prominent theme of the novel is survival of the fittest. This concept is as old as the world itself; the strong have always survived, and the weak have always perished. Humanity is no exception, and things will be this way until the end of