The theme of Ender 's Game is about a society that is falling apart and no one can do much about it. The only people that realize that society is collapsing are the Russians, Peter, and Valentine. Everyone else is concerned about an invasion, that may or may not even happen. Since everyone is focused on the attack on the home world, only the Russians know what society will be like in the next 10 years. Once the buggers are destroyed, then no one will need the I.S., and everyone is going to go back to the way the world was, and old wars will pick up where they left off, people will no longer get along, no longer live in harmony, and at peace with each other, destroying everything that has been accomplished in the last 80 years. The theme to