The Giant's Game Analysis

Title The Giant only offers options that end in destruction. He offers a drink in one of two cups. One leads to poison-induced death and the other to Fairyland. Only the game is rigged; both cups are poisoned. The Giant’s Cup is one game presented to Ender Wiggin in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game is about a child genius who is training to become the next great military leader. The human race is depending on him to defeat the Buggers, a superior alien species. Those who run the battle-school often use unpleasant means to mold Ender into the perfect strategist and leader. Just like in the Giant’s Cup, Ender finds that every challenge presented to him is set against him. In order to survive and excel he learns not to follow the

The giant offers two cups of poison and forces the game avatar to drink from one. Ender plays the game repeatedly and learns that there is no winning. Instead of playing the game again, he sends his mouse avatar to gouge out the giant’s eyeballs and kill it from the inside. To his surprise, this move takes him to the promised Fairyland. Playing within the established rules did not win him the game, breaking the rules does. There are two significant battles that Ender wins by manipulating the system. When his Dragon Army is set to fight Salamander Army, he tricks Salamander Army and wins the game in less than a minute. The more significant battle he wins is the final battle against the buggers. What he thinks is a grossly unfair simulation, is the real Third Invasion. He is angry at how outnumbered he is and blows up the Bugger planet as a way to show the flaw in the game. He later finds out that he destroyed an actual planet. Ender Wiggin is a genius. He never finds anything challenging and is often upset at the way others manipulate and use him. This is why he learns to manipulate rules himself. At every turning point in the book, Ender finds a way to correctly break rules in ways that nobody