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Moral Dilemmas In Ender's Game, By Orson Scott Card

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card explicitly deals with the inner workings of moral dilemmas, mistakes, situations and solutions. Many situations can be compared to Ender’s, and dealt with in similar or contrasting ways. I have, like Ender, made a sort of mistake by not understanding the consequences of my actions. Ender’s reaction is also something to think about when comparing a situation to his. Although stakes were higher for Ender, the moral problems that arise throughout his story are easily applied to real life occurrences. To begin with, I have had an experience when I did what I thought was right while in reality it was not. I have always been very close with my step siblings, and especially my older sister. Throughout my visits …show more content…

Ender’s realization and mistake is made on a much grander scale when he eliminates all but one egg in a species, but there are parallels between the two. He kills “buggers” without giving them proper consideration because he thought he was playing a game of little consequence. This is a reasonable assumption in his situation, but while Ender thought he was doing good for the world, he was actually exterminating a species based on a lack of communication. Similarly, I thought that I was doing a good thing by including my sister and keeping her connected to her family, when in reality some of her family (and mine) isn’t worth keeping contact with. Even if my mom was worth her time, though, hearing the specific details of how she has hurt people isn’t necessary or helpful. My issue might have been avoided with better communication, as Ender’s. Other aspects of my situation relate to the text as well. In the end, Ender’s reaction was to grieve for what he’s done, and move forward, making amends by promising the egg and previous queen that he would help repopulate their species. Making amends and finding a relative solution allowed Ender to accept what he did. In my opinion, that is the best way to deal with any similar situation. By examining what has happened and how you can improve or make things better, you are choosing a positive change. This is also what I’ve tried to do after having my own realization, although there are always

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Ender doesn’t like hurting people much at the beginning but towards the end he becomes a soldier and a killer. Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter. This quote shows that Ender doesn’t want to turn out violent like his older brother, but the government forced him to.

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Ender’s Games Summary In Ender’s Game, earth had previously been attacked by aliens, called buggers, and were going to attack again in the future. The main character is Ender Wiggin, who has a sister named Valentine, and a brother named Peter. He and his sister have a very close relationship, but his brother is crazy and wants to kill him. In the beginning, Ender beat up a bully, and when asked why he said that it was to prevent future problems, which made the colonel decide that Ender was a good candidate as commander for dealing with the future alien problems.

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Enders Game Ender overcomes his situation but he goes through many obstacles before he can get where his right now. In the beginning of the story Ender gets his monitor removed and when he goes back to class, a kid named Stilson teases him, and Ender seems bored with school because he knows all the answer. After school, he beats up his bully Stilson and it makes him feel like he has become a bully like Peter which makes him cry. Peter is one of his siblings that has a hate love relationship with him because Ender gets selected to go to battle school and had his monitor longer than Peter or Valentine his sister.

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So the reader is so full of sorrow for Ender that they want him to be innocent. The reader never gets to experience what the buggers had been through or even  know their future intentions of the humans. The reader gets so trapped in sympathy of Ender that they never once question the morality of his mass genocide. The reader feels as if it isn’t his fault when indeed it is. If one were to just take as step back and think about the Buggers they would realize they really know nothing about them.

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Imagine yourself expected to be the leader of the human space fleet with the fate of humanity on your shoulders, along with a psychotic brother threatening murder. In the book, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, Ender is expected to be the commander of the human space fleet with the goal to defeat an alien species named the buggers. On his journey to command stardom, Ender faces many problems in battle school and back home on Earth. Choosing between the book and movie, the book illustrated a better and more exciting reading experience than the movie. There are many major themes in the Enders Game.

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