Possible Themes In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about a boy named Ender who goes to battle school to fight for the government. While he was there he got into some trouble such as getting into fights. Throughout the book two possible themes could be: you don’t always have to follow the rules to get ahead in life, and the real enemy might not be who you originally thought. The first theme is shown by how Ender did not follow orders given to him by the generals at the battle school. The other theme was shown by how the government made Ender and the others kill the bugger even though they didn’t actually do anything that they deserved to be killed for. Orson Scott Card was good at conveying the theme throughout the book. The theme of “you don’t always have