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Summary Of Ender's Game

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John Kessel's essay Creating the Innocent Killer, is a character study of Ender Wiggin, from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Kessel’s essay has an interesting view on Ender’s character traits, his motives, and even the world he’s living in. Kessel’s study describes Ender as being a guilty killer. While his view on Ender’s murdering may seem extreme to some, I believe that Ender is still guilty, regardless of his motives, since in the end, he still does kill off an entire race. In Ender’s game, one of the strongest ways Card produces sympathy for Ender is by exposing him to relentless, undeserved, torment. In Kessel’s essay it states “On the very first page of the novel an adult lies to Ender about something that is going to hurt him”. After
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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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Kessel says that this is all used to by Card to make the reader sympathize for Ender. This allows him to be portrayed as a killer who commits mass genocide, yet is innocent because he has good motives. Kessel goes on to

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Card, himself, said, “My future sister-in-law, Laura Dene Low (she soon married my older brother, Bill), had urged me to read Asimov's Foundation trilogy, which blew me away. I found myself wanting to come up with a futuristic story myself.” Card wrote the book because he wanted to use his imagination to write something awesome. As a result, when Kessel argues that the novel was created based on “... ethics under which Ender can kill without being guilty” (13), it cannot be correct. First of all, Ender felt an immense amount of guilt saying, “I didn’t want to kill anybody!

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Sequentially, Ender takes it upon himself to make sure that he doesn’t mess up even though the loss, in fact, couldn’t be Enders fault. It’d be the fault of humanity who put so much faith and power into the hands of one simple young boy. It has always been better to try and fail than to never try at all, and that’s what gave Ender the most power: the fact he tried. The deceit from Valentine and her words are what assisted Ender in his journey to try and to strive, this deceit; more or less one of the most helpful in the entire

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