Enders Game by Orson Scott Cars is about a boy named Andrew "Ender" Wiggins. Ender is the youngest of three Genius Children in his family, and both Peter and Valentine have worn the same monitor that Ender wore. Though neither had the monitor for as long, and neither were selected to battle school. Battle School is the Military Run training facility the trains soldiers from the time they are children to be efficient and effective soldier for the international fleet. Enders success in being selected to train at battle school angers Peter, and upsets loving Valentine.
He becomes the top soldier and commands his own army by the age of 11. Political exploitation of children is a big theme in these books. In Ender’s Game, they use kids as soldiers. The use of children for political advantage in this book is the most noticeable part of the book. They raise kids so they can go kill other people.
This is another statement that I see often inn the book and agree have with. On this subject kessel writes “The extreme situation Card has constructed to isolate and abuse Ender guarantees our sympathy. After Ender is manipulated into entering Battle School, (he’s brought there by lies severing him from Valentine, his only protector) his abuse continues, deliberately fostered by Graff. On the shuttle up to the orbiting school Graff singles Ender out for praise for the sole purpose that the other recruits will resent him.
To win the battle, Ender’s ability to understand the bugger's tactics was needed, but his empathy for the buggers was not. Since Ender Wiggin didn’t want to injure anyone, in fear of becoming like his brother, they made him believe that what he was doing was just a practice simulation and nobody would get damaged by it. By not telling Ender, the authorities were able to get him to command against the buggers and ultimately save the human race. Having Ender assume he was fighting Mazer Rackham gave him motivation to win the final battle because he didn’t want Mazer to win. For example, Ender states, “I won’t let you beat me unfairly---
During the flight to the Battle School, he showed everyone that he is brilliant by explaing the law of gravity. However, Graff isolated him from the other students. Ender started living with his recruits, Launchies. When they went to the battleroom, Ender figured out how to move around in zero gravity with another member named Alai. Alai helped Ender to fit in with the rest of the group and that way Ender ended his isolation.
Did I join in? Just stood there, watching, like a teacher” (Card 140). Ender grows increasingly callous toward his close ones as a result of his friends' refusal to include him in their friendship. Ender realises that he has been played in the hand of Graff whereby he has been isolated from all his emotional attachments to make him a fighting machine he is planned to be made into. By the time Ender becomes the commander of “Dragon” army, he has a build up of anger and frustration.
In the book, it is made completely clear that the system of both the Battle School and Command School are breaking Ender down, ultimately demonstrated by Ender being completely bedridden after the Third Invasion due to everything he’s endured. This also happens with the movie’s presentation of the characters, with more characters being sympathetic to Ender. This completely overrides a plot point in the book,
32) Colonel Graff set Ender up. Colonel Graff made all the kids around him seem like Ender was his favorite to get kids to pick on him and to see how Ender would handle it. Just as Colonel Graff thought, kids started picking on
The first major event that showed Ender enduring some troubles was when he woke up in the middle of the night and found that “there was blood” on his bed, and he had been “gnawing on his own fist” (285) in the middle of the night, in his sleep. This revealed to the reader that the strong and powerful Ender might be beginning to crack and show a
"…she squeezed his knee…where he had always been most ticklish. But almost at the same moment, he caught her wrist in his hand. His grip was very strong, even though his hands were smaller than hers and his own arms were slender and tight. For a moment he looked dangerous; then he relaxed." () Unknowingly Ender has surrendered to the virtuous boy he once was in exchange for the arduous adolescent he is now, confirming what the Battle School destined him to become.
After going into space for battle training, he becomes isolated from the other students immedetaly. Ender overcoming challenges finally begins to be accepted by the other students, only to be transferred and isolated again.
However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.
After all of the trauma, heartbreak, and mental abuse that the Battle School put Ender through, he has finally broken down. Over the course of a few years, Ender’s human endurance has been pushed far past his limits. Once again, he had to force himself onto another as an act of self-defense. Although he did not wish to harm either of his past attackers, Ender did not want to be killed either. After his fight with Bonzo, Ender no longer has faith in the Battle School.
World War I was one of the worst wars humankind has ever seen. World War I was a war fought in Europe between Germany, Russia, France, Great Britain,the United States,and many others. However,the cause of WWI is still unknown, but a few things that could have started one of the biggest wars anyone has ever seen are the alliance system,militarism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Alliance System was an underlying cause of World War I because of the Triple Alliance that consisted of;Germany,Austria-Hungary,and Italy. The Triple Entente formed between France,Britain,and Russia,but a problem with this alliance was that France and Britain were enemies but since they both feared germany they came together
The story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” written by Katherine Anne Porter starts out with an eighty year old woman named Granny Weatherall in a hospital bed disputing with her doctor whom she thinks is childish. Doctor Harry was telling her to stay in bed , there she would gain strength, as he touched her forehead then cheek. As a consequence She reminds the doctor that she has lived through further more serious illnesses before he was even born. Granny Weatherall would reply with “Leave a woman alone. I’ll call you when I demand you.”
