Summary Of Ender's Game

The Genocidal Innocence
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game has sparked many controversial seminars that have produced numerous critical thinking questions. Were Andrew “Ender” Wiggin’s intentions actually good, and was his commited genocide actually guilty? Jon Kessel’s essay, Creating the Innocent Killer, brings up many points that the author of Ender’s Game tried to hide Ender’s crime by making the reader feel sympathy for his past. Many different essays argue that Ender has psychological damage from his past, has been manipulated into doing things he didn’t want to do, and also suffers from anger issue problems.
In Ender’s Game, Ender is reminded of his past and his maniacal brother. Peter, Ender’s older brother often threatened Ender, saying

The officers and students, at both battle and command school, often told Ender to do things, or kill buggers in games, and he often listened to them. Manipulation was the main underlying factor throughout the book, and adults were regularly seen to lie to Ender in order to make him believe things were right. In Jon Kessel’s essay, Kessel states that “adults or authority are never there to protect” in the story, which is true. Ender was constantly told to do the wrong thing. Many different articles state that this is the reason why Ender is innocent, but that is simply untrue. Ender had his own set of morals before he went to Battle School, and he simply ignored them when peer pressure came into play. Ender knew he was being manipulated, he just did nothing to stop it. This is yet another reason why I believe Ender is

Ender does show his feelings of kindness and other emotions occasionally throughout the book, but we see more of his dangerous “Peter-like” side than anything. Peter always seemed to take things too far, because of his power hungry wants. Although Ender doesn’t necessarily want everyone to bow down to him, he does go a little out of hand when he gets angry. His burts could almost make the reader describe him as having a “rage disorder”, which, according to valleybehavioral.com, is violent outbursts filled with “sudden episodes of unwanted anger.” Ender takes his anger out on others when he stressed or sad, and usually, without meaning too, ends up killing someone. Or, in the case of the buggers, everyone. In Kessel’s essay, he describes how Ender knew the damage the MD Weapon would cause, just as his commanders do. That doesn’t stop Ender, however, from committing a planet wide genocide that wiped out a whole world without gathering any information about it or trying to create peace between the two planets. Ender was sometimes half-innocent in his murders, but he still murdered nonetheless, with his own two