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Ender's Game Summary

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Ender spends his time at command school alone or with Graff, working mostly with the simulator. In this game, Ender starts commanding just a single fighter however, is soon in charge of an entire fleet. After a year Ender finds it easy, and he explains this to Graff. The very next day Ender wakes up to an old man sitting cross-legged on the floor. Mazer Rackham introduces himself to Ender by attacking him and pinning him, explaining to Ender that he will be his teacher because he will also be his enemy: “There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer” (263). Together they watch tapes of the first and second invasions. Rackham explains to him why the buggers stopped fighting after he attacked …show more content…

Humans can carry out different strategies all at once, unlike the buggers. Ender is moved into a new simulator where he is to command an entire fleet. However, this time with real squadron leaders made up of all his friends from Battle School. Mazer Rakham tells him that the next battle will be his final examination in Command School. Ender wins the battle by destroying the planet, and the room erupts in cheers. Rackham tells him that he has actually been the fleet commander of the Third Invasion the whole time and that he just destroyed the buggers completely. Ender is angry with Graff for using him. He did not want to hurt anyone and now has destroyed an entire race without his knowledge. Graff explains that he had to trick Ender. Ender does not hate the buggers, and he would not have consciously fought this war if given the choice: “We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers [...] but somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed” (298). However, Graff knew that. This is why they had to make it all seem like a …show more content…

He discovers the tower and climbs up to the room with the mirror. Ender realizes that the buggers must have built all of this for him in order to leave him a message. Behind the mirror Ender finds the pupa of a bugger queen, where the queen communicates with him. She shows him the images of the battles, but they are from the buggers' point of view. She then sends images to his mind of what he needs to do to start a new bugger civilization and let her live again. Ender figures out that they learned his thoughts through the ansible. This was, after all, the humans attempt at mimicking bugger communication. She tells him that the buggers did not know that humans were able to think, “but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams” (321). When the buggers figured out that human beings were capable of thought, they did not attack again. They do not blame humans for killing them. However, Ender blames himself because he always knew that there had to be a way to fix things other than war. Ender endured all of the manipulation to win a war that never needed to have been fought. Now, the queen has given him a chance to undo his

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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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When Graff and Ender arrive at battle school, Ender has a rough start as he is picked on and not treated fairly. He overcomes everything and is then rewarded with his own army to command. After finishing battle school early, Ender goes back to earth to decide what he wants to do. His sister Valentine convinces him to go back to space and fight the war against

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They determined Ender must be isolated but he must also be able to have people be willing to follow him. They need him to be the next Mazer Rackham, he led the victory over the Buggers when they had come to Earth. During the trip, up to Battle School Ender found himself sitting in front of a boy, Bernard who kept hitting him in the head and does not have his seat belt on. Ender takes action and grabbed Bernard’s arm causing him to leave his seat and this time they are in space so the boy keeps floating through the shuttle until he hits a wall and breaks his arm. Once the kids (launchies) arrive to Battle School they are taken to their living quarters and given a computer system similar to a tablet that contained games that will help them improve their strategies and tactics.

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They thought doing that would make all the buggers die, but it ended up making Ender feel like a killer. He felt so bad that when he found a bugger egg he devoted the rest of his life to find it a home, therefore saving the species. These two examples show that you should not manipulate people, because you might not always get the outcome you

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This is also when Ender realizes that the buggers could have been friendly and peaceful. One important theme in this book is the isolation of Ender. Ender must be

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Imagine yourself being the third child in a world that doesn’t allow no more than two children per family and that every time you finally feel comfortable and satisfied with where you are and who you are with, somebody finds some way to isolate you from that. In this book, Ender’s Game, Ender Wiggin is expected to save the world from the buggers. To do this he has to go through rigorous training from Battle School to Command School. While he is at Command School he is told that he’ll be going through “simulations” in which their will be battles with the buggers. But on his graduation day, it is supposed to be his “final exam” of the “simulation” battle against the buggers.

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This lessens the scope of how much the International Fleet has been lying to Ender, leading to the reveal being less dramatic. The movie also completely erases the Locke and Demosthenes subplot, removes the epilogue of Ender moving to a colony with Valentine, and then replaces it with Ender finding the queen bugger’s egg on the same planet as the Command School and leaving to find a safe home for it. This also gets rid of the parallel between Ender and Peter at the end of the book, where it’s pointed out that in spite of Peter being portrayed as exceedingly cruel, he prevents the war on Earth which saves millions of lives. Ender kills billions of buggers in the Third Invasion, almost wiping out their race completely, despite being described as gentle and not wanting to hurt anyone. The movie’s tendency to cut anything not deemed an important event also makes it seem that Ender is unaffected by most of the events that occur.

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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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First, he demonstrates courage when he accepts his call to action by leaving his family. Next, he withdraws from his mundane life and conquers the angst of the unknown. Finally, he restores order for humanity and the buggers. In spite of the fact that Ender is an orthodox type of hero that follows the hero cycle to successfully save the world from a supposed alien invasion, which is later revealed to be an unnecessary attack on the buggers, he proves to be a hero that performs the noble deed of sacrificing his childhood, for he does everything for the greater

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Without the bugger war, Ender would not have been born, and he realizes this fact. Interestingly enough, the reader never directly see’s the war against the buggers. The only war ever seen directly is the other war that Ender fights every day – the war against the teachers games, against the other kids, against his fear of becoming his brother, against the instinct that drives Ender to hurt other people. Ender’s entire life is made up of these little battles. Ender finds his identity in the battles that he fights and the challenges that he over comes.

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Ender goes through many challenges and then graduates to command school and learns to command fleets using a simulator. On Ender's final exam he destroys a planet and then finds out

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They could say that what they did was necessary for them to beat the Buggers in the war. The problem is they were attacking the Buggers not defending. They could have delayed the attack and given Ender and all of the other kids more time to develop their thinking process more so they could fight much better later in their lives. Also they did not need to attack because the Buggers may not have invaded them again. They did not know that they were a advanced species at the time.

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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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