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Examples Of Manipulation In Ender's Game

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Manipulation is a prevalent characteristic in Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's game. Being manipulated is a hard pill to swallow, it is evident that the reader will see manipulation being used in the novel towards the boys attending the battle school, Ender's manipulation towards others and Peter's manipulation towards Ender. Each character has different reasons for why they influence others into their path. In the novel, the battle school teachers use their manipulative ways to influence the boy's outcome. General Levy remarks that Graff is passionate towards making these boys ready for battle no matter what it takes. Graff does admit to enjoying it by saying, “There is an art to it, and I'm very, very good at it. But enjoy? Well, maybe.” In another instance Dink reckons that the teachers are plotting the kids against each to see who will be good in …show more content…

Ender realizes he is doing to Bean what the teachers have done to him. By singling him out he can reach his full potential and Ender knows this and that is why he continues to manipulate this power. “That's what I'm doing to you, Bean. I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance. (Card 168) In another example Ender did not share his strategies or his thoughts with others. He always kept his cards close to his chest. Never letting others know his moves. “Of course, as soon as word got around that Ender Wiggin was watching the war videos over and over again, the video room began to draw a crowd. Almost all were commanders, watching the same vids Ender watched, pretending they understood why he was watching and what he was getting out of it. Ender never explained anything.” (Card 189) It is an emotional manipulation that could ultimately lead to a downfall in the

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Ender’s sister keeps him from getting bullied by his older brother, and she protects Ender whenever she can. Ender keeps going through his training so he can go back and see her. He doesn’t receive any letters from her and thinks she has forgotten about him. The next time Ender sees Valentine, he is tired of fighting and wants to stop. This is when Valentine says, “We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game."

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Instead of just punching the boy once, Ender did it repeatedly and showed no mercy.

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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.

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Card truly exemplified his confidence when he deftly beat the other boy. Ender did not hesitate when asking the boys to play nor when playing them. Instead, he “quickly and efficiently”

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To win the battle, Ender’s ability to understand the bugger's tactics was needed, but his empathy for the buggers was not. Since Ender Wiggin didn’t want to injure anyone, in fear of becoming like his brother, they made him believe that what he was doing was just a practice simulation and nobody would get damaged by it. By not telling Ender, the authorities were able to get him to command against the buggers and ultimately save the human race. Having Ender assume he was fighting Mazer Rackham gave him motivation to win the final battle because he didn’t want Mazer to win. For example, Ender states, “I won’t let you beat me unfairly---

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Ender’s promotion to a “Toon Leader” of Phoenix army and the facilitator of trainings to Launchies, leaves him with little time for his friends. Over time his camaraderie with his friends deteriorates and he struggles to be sincere with anyone. This is exemplified when Ender thinks “But with his old friends there was no laughter, no remembering. Just work” (Card 139). At the same time, Ender misses his early years at the Battle School.

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In the classic novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a young man who lives in a futuristic world where hostile extraterrestrial beings known as “buggers” have attacked Earth twice, and they almost wiped out mankind in the Second Invasion. The International Fleet (I.F.) plans to attack the bugger world a third time to wipe them out for good, and they take Ender at the young age of 6 to a space station called Battle School to prepare him and other children to possibly graduate to Command School and fight the buggers. Throughout the novel, Card develops Ender’s character traits using influences from other characters, plot development, and Ender changing as he grows older. At the beginning of the story, Ender is 6 years old and wears a small device on his neck, monitoring his behavior to find out whether he is what they need to fight the buggers.

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In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender is continually set up against impossible odds by the International Fleet, which is part of a plan to train Ender to fight in the Third Invasion and end the bugger wars forever. Ender’s trials are portrayed more convincingly in the book, as the book shows him struggling with the expectations placed upon him more so than in the movie. An important theme in Ender’s Game is that Ender is continually kept in the dark about the events happening around him. This theme is prevalent throughout the book, and sets the stage for the book’s climax, the Third Invasion.

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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).

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Calculating Judgments For someone so young, Ender is exceptionally calculating. In almost the very beginning of the novel, the author shows Ender being bullied by Stilson and his gang. Ender realizes that he must thoroughly beat Stilson so the rest of the gang wouldn’t pick on Ender ever

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When Ender was talking to himself he said,”the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you’re always subject to those who can, and no one will ever save you,”(Card pg.212). This shows that inaction can make people prone to lose against people who have power can have power over them because inaction leaves them open and defenseless to those they could restrain. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Ender is referring to the fight against Stilson, Bonzo, and Bernard because if he had waited for the teachers to respond to call for help they would’ve overpowered him and he would’ve lost. After ender defeated the buggers Mazer Rackham told Ender, “you made the hard choice, boy. All or nothing.

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