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Summary Of Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

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In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the reader comes across a character who is very smart for his age. Ender is only six years old when the reader first meets him. This young boy often refers himself to his aggressive older brother Peter. After hurting some kids that bullied him, Ender thinks to himself, “I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter” (38). This is interesting because later in the book we find out that Peter sometimes threatens to kill Ender and their little sister, Valentine. As the siblings play a game, Peter says, “But someday you two won’t be together. And there’ll be an accident” (43). He was threatening Peter and Valentine. The reader then thinks that Ender does not sound like Peter at …show more content…

The book mentions that there was a battle between humans and buggers, or aliens, earlier on. This school was designed to train kids and to learn how to defeat the buggers if they ever return. Due to extra taxes, parents usually only had two children. The government suggested that Ender’s parents have a third child because their children showed bright characteristics. The government hoped that their next child would be the one that could be a major help in defeating the buggers. This is important because the third child of a family is usually looked down upon. Peter is always making fun of Ender and says, “You’re a Third, turd.You’ve got no rights” (47). So when an officer from Battle School arrives at the door, a prediction can be made that Ender will be chosen and Peter will become jealous. Peter feels like he wasn’t good enough so they had to have a third child to make up for him. This jealousy is like the story of Joseph in the Bible. Joseph, the youngest of twelve brothers, was given a cloak of many colors. His older brothers became jealous of him because they felt like they were looked down upon by their father. Peter, too doesn’t feel appreciated when his younger brother is chosen to go to Battle School over him. This may be the reason for him constantly threatening to kill

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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.

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Ender was tasked with leading a platoon when he was in command. He led the platoon through battles against the buggers. Unknowingly, he was fighting off the buggers that entire time. He sacrificed some of his men to kill more buggers. Those men died and Ender at such a young age has to comprehend that he killed people unknowingly.

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This is Valentine’s main downfall unlike Peter who is the Id. This is the primal, non organized side This was Peter’s main downfall yet Ender seems to be a perfect balance of the

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Though each member of the family testified that they never believed him dead for a moment, the stress of the possibility weighed on them constantly. Comparably, the last time Ender ever saw his parents was at the age of six, at which point he was flown off to Battle School. After training for years there, he was a very different person, and was most likely barely recognizable to his parents. His older sister, Valentine, was the only member of the family permitted to see Ender when he went back to Earth for a short period of time. After winning the war, his parents were notified that it was, in fact, their son who had saved the planet from utter destruction by the Buggers, but whether it was was the son they had raised or one who had been hardened by the stress of competitive schooling was unclear.

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This lessens the scope of how much the International Fleet has been lying to Ender, leading to the reveal being less dramatic. The movie also completely erases the Locke and Demosthenes subplot, removes the epilogue of Ender moving to a colony with Valentine, and then replaces it with Ender finding the queen bugger’s egg on the same planet as the Command School and leaving to find a safe home for it. This also gets rid of the parallel between Ender and Peter at the end of the book, where it’s pointed out that in spite of Peter being portrayed as exceedingly cruel, he prevents the war on Earth which saves millions of lives. Ender kills billions of buggers in the Third Invasion, almost wiping out their race completely, despite being described as gentle and not wanting to hurt anyone. The movie’s tendency to cut anything not deemed an important event also makes it seem that Ender is unaffected by most of the events that occur.

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This helps keep the constancy and make it so it show that ender was a gifted child. This was important because it made both the movie and book be showing how special children are and how Ender

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This automatically causes complications because he was a third child. In this time it was rare to have three kids, so it was likely that Ender would get picked on after the monitor was taken away. The monitor kept anybody from messing with because it helped the government watch him. After Ender get’s the monitor taken off Stilson, a bully in school, starts causing trouble. “Hey Third.’

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Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.

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Ender’s Game is a 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Key. Set in the future where an insectoid alien species, the Formics (or the buggers), have attacked Earth twice with devastating results for the human species, Andrew “Ender” Wiggins is humanity's last hope. A child prodigy and main character of Ender’s Game, Ender is sent to Battle School to learn how to fight and destroy the buggers. He is chosen because his characteristics are perfect to be a commander. Some traits that are very important in making Ender who he is are his calculating judgments, creativity, and compassion.

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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.

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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.

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**Peter and Valentine are the opposites. Peter enjoys hurting others but Valentine tries to help everybody. Although they are opposites they are very smart and somehow they think the same way at times. The setting of Ender 's Game changes throughout the book, because Ender Wiggin first was on Earth, then he went to a school in space, next back to Earth, after that to another school in space and finally to a distant world once occupied by the buggers. The time was very vague, but it seemed to take place around 2300.

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Even though he was still sleeping, Ender had to get up and fight the buggers right at that moment. He is forced to comply with his strictly regulated schedule so he will be ready to fight any oncoming bugger attack. Ender’s schedule has been closely regulated since the day he met Graff at his house. Graff forces Ender to go to Battle School with him only minutes after he accepted the offer to join the I.F. training program. When Ender makes the decision to join Graff says, “ You can change your mind.

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