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Examples Of Manipulation In Ender's Game

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Theme Analysis Essay Is the world manipulating you? In Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card presents his audience with the theme of manipulation which is still relevant today. Ender was faced with manipulation throughout the entire book, just as soldiers are brainwashed throughout their service. In Ender’s Game, there are multiple manipulators who influence Ender and others. Colonel Graff is a prominent manipulator of Ender. He continually isolates Ender and makes sure that he knows he is different. This changes Ender’s demeanor and his outlook on the situation. Ender is persistently worried about whether he is good enough, even Major Anderson sees this. The dilemma on whether this is all morally right has come up numerous times. Anderson is constantly questioning Colonel Graff on whether or not he is taking the isolation with Ender too far. Colonel Graff deliberately separated all the other boys in his launch group from Ender. Ender stuck out like a sore thumb in his launch group because the boys always felt inferior to him due to what Colonel Graff told them. They ignored him and looked at him differently because of it. It was only until the end of his launch year that people actually began to become friends with Ender. Alai and Shen became Ender’s only support, but the …show more content…

Peter often enjoyed the pain and agony of Valentine and Ender when he would threaten death upon the both of them. He influenced many people not only to see things his way, but also tricked them into scheming with him, such as Valentine with the political writings. Multiple times we see Ender saying things like, “I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter”(Card). It quickly becomes clear that Ender wants nothing to do with Peter and wishes to be nothing like him. Peter is deceptive, and often using this to his advantage when threatening

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In the fourth chapter of the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card it starts with Graff and another adult discussing how to deal with Ender at the Battle School. They decide that he must be isolated and yet also be able to win followers. Graff insists that Ender is nice but that they need to get rid of that undesirable trait. The other adult mentions that it appears that Graff enjoys breaking the children, but Graff insists that it is only worth it when they are pieced back together stronger than before. Graff takes Ender to the shuttle, before they go on the shuttle that will take them to the Battle School Ender notices that the nineteen other children on the launch are all laughing and joking.

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This chapter is built upon the relationships between the siblings as well as the role Graff plays within Ender’s life. The computer situation, which Graff tells Valentine about opens her eyes to the fact that there is much of Peter in her as there is in Ender, an example being Valentine and Peter working hand in hand for power. Valentine and Peter’s actions working to spread ideas in hope of rebellion demonstrate that the Wiggins will both have power in space as well as land (Earth). Although the duo has not yet started to rapidly spread their influence, it seems clear that Peter will get what he wants due to the fact that his intellect is matched only by his ambition, to which he will use to manipulate almost anyone. The question that coincides

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Books are the ideal way to introduce a reader to the many morals of the human society. In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender, is drafted by the international fleet to lead multiple fleets of ships in combat against an alien species, but he does not realize that he was drafted for that purpose. Ender is sent to Battle School, where he becomes a true archetypal leader, and he gains many valuable friends that help him along the way. At a hidden asteroid, Ender begins what he believes are simulations, but really is the Third Invasion.

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Valentine always liked Ender more than Peter, because she wanted Ender to be an astronaut for once in the game of Buggers and Astronauts from this quote “Let him be an astronaut once.” From this quote it shows that Valentine wants everyone to be even and have fun, even though that she knows Peter would never let him be an astronaut. Even though she knows that Peter is not bluffing when he says he is going to kill them Valentine says, “You are all talk.” “You don’t mean any of it.” Which says that Valentine still believes there is still good in everyone, even when there isn’t because she just got threatened and she still says that Peter would never do that.

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In the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, he explores a world in which lies and manipulation are a positive idea. The main character, Ender Wiggin, is a six-year-old boy who is recruited into a battle school known as the International Fleet. This battle school was presented to the children as a place where they can train to protect Earth from an alien life form known as buggers. The students soon learn the real reason they are there. Ender in particular begins to figure out that the adults are the enemies as they have continued to lie in order to achieve cooperation.

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At Battle School the kids remain cut off from the people of Earth including their families which hardens them and makes them share their emotions less. When Ender gets to Battle School he goes through a series of mental and physical challenges that he should not have to go through but Graff forces him to. He also puts Ender against incredible uneven odds to make sure that Ender remains at a constant disadvantage. Ender continues to be purposely isolated during his stay there which makes it hard for him to make friends and feel like he belongs. Graff gives Ender a bad army to work with when he becomes commander, doesn’t let Ender practice with his friends anymore after a short time, gives him less time than anyone else to get his team prepared, and has him fight more battles in a short period of time than others.

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While Graff is speaking with someone in higher military command, he insists Ender remains isolated so he can thinks he can only help his self. Graff ends the conversation implying that Ender may have friends, but no parents. Isolation for Ender is unpleasant, and tries not to focus on the agony by counting powers of two. Ender goes to the game room, however he is quickly bored by most of the games. In the meantime, Ender challenges an older boy to play a game best two out of three, in which, Ender beats him by winning two games, ultimately shocking the other elder kids.

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Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.

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After going into space for battle training, he becomes isolated from the other students immedetaly. Ender overcoming challenges finally begins to be accepted by the other students, only to be transferred and isolated again.

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However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.

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Peter is intelligent because he is knowledgable which helps him deceive his parents and get what he wants. Peter displays his intelligence when he mislead his father into thinking that he had no idea, “about Africa and everything”(5), and changed the scenery to, “a green, lovely forest”(5), fooling his father. And when Peter’s father decided to shutdown the nursery he used his insight to once again outsmart his parents by pretending to cry and wale, ”Just a moment, just one moment, just another moment of nursery"(9) and as a result Peter got what he wanted. Due to Peter’s intelligence he was able to outwit his parents and in return achive his goal in obtaining what he wants. Lastly, Peter is known to be ruthless.

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