Envision living in a world where all of humanity has forgotten their values. The novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, incorporates how humankind reacts when the world is put at risk by the alien Buggers. Throughout this book, a young boy named Ender is put through intense training that makes him question societies true identity. Card reveals how isolation and manipulation take place in the world Ender lives in. Isolation is a feeling that Ender is forced to face. From the start of Battle School he had no friends, so he could only “watch the other kids in isolation” (Card 41). The commander’s from the beginning of school set Ender apart from the rest by telling all the other students that he is better than them. Ender involuntarily is alone in all that he does in battle school. When Ender is promoted to toon leader of the Phoenix Army, Ender feels “completely and utterly alone” (Card 140). At this time, Ender feels distant from all of the other …show more content…
Ender’s colonel, Graff, told him that Battle School is “one of the worst things, but that they needed him” to attend (Card 25). When Colonel Graff told this to Ender, he knew that it is his duty to serve Earth and he did not really have a choice. He has to go because Graff makes Ender believe he is no longer needed on Earth. When Ender quits training, because he is sick of Battle School, his sister, Valentine “talks Ender into going back into his training” (Card 242). The International Fleet uses Ender’s one weakness, Valentine, against him to steer Ender back into training. Ender only goes back to school so he can save his sister. Soon after Ender defeats the Buggers, he realizes that the I.F. “tricked him into killing” the Buggers (Card 298). Ender is destroyed, because it is not his intention to kill or hurt anyone, yet the I.F. got him to kill thousands of people and Buggers without him