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The Theme Of Ender's Reality In The Dreamworld By Orson Scott Card

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The Dreamworld: How Does “Free Play” Reflect Ender’s Reality?

Although games are typically created with the sole purpose of providing entertainment, the games displayed in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game are clearly exceptions. One of those games, Free Play, delves into a fantastical yet ominous world. In the novel, Andrew Wiggin, more commonly known by his nickname, Ender, is an extremely intelligent and capable child. Ender volunteers to go to Battleschool where he is taught military strategy in the form of games in addition to his regular school subjects. The nations of the world have formed the I.F. or International Fleet for the purpose of creating a military force that is able to defend Earth against aliens otherwise known as buggers. …show more content…

When Ender first enters the castle, he is faced with a rug that transforms into a serpent and kills Ender’s character. Each time Ender goes back to the castle, no matter what he does, his character in the game dies. Finally, after reading Valentine’s forced letter, he becomes so agitated to the point where he gives up on trying to properly play Free Play. This time when he encounters the serpent, he does the unexpected and kisses it. The serpent then transforms into Valentine and through the power of compassion and love, Ender defeats the serpent. This part in the book reflects Ender’s reality because vanquishing the serpent and breaking free of the End of the World, represents Ender vanquishing and breaking free of the cage of betrayal created by Valentine’s forced letter. This in turn makes Ender realize that wherever he went, Valentine would be there to support …show more content…

In East Asia, dragons usually symbolize benevolence, wisdom, and power. However, in European culture, dragons represent all that is chaotic and evil. Unicorns usually symbolize purity and serve as a connection between the everyday world and the afterlife. In the End of the World, the dragon in the mirror represents Ender’s personality because as well as having a benevolent, wise, and powerful side, which is shown when he is commanding his troops in Battleschool, he has a dark, chaotic side. This part of his personality allows him to severely injure and even kill other children. However, because these two sides of Ender balance each other out, he is indeed a mixture of Valentine and Peter. The unicorn in the mirror symbolizes Valentine because she implements purity into Ender’s life. For example, Valentine is like a beacon of light and hope for Ender as she is a fellow person who sees through Peter’s innocent facade into the cruelty beneath. As a reader, it is apparent that over time Free Play teaches Ender that he has to accept that he is not like Peter even though they share qualities such as competitiveness and ruthlessness. This is shown when the mirror reflects the images of a dragon and a unicorn, which reveals a second meaning. The dragon is Peter’s personality in Ender and the unicorn is Valentine’s personality in

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The fleet consist of his best friends from Battle School. They practice and train together and fight the battles against the buggers in the simulation. Mazor tells Ender how we won against the buggers and then they watch the video of the old battles. Ender begins to have bad dreams of the buggers and now barely sleeps. He becomes ill for a few days.

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set on a post-war Earth as well as the Battle School. The main character is Andrew Wiggin who goes by the name Ender. At age six he is sent to Battle School. There he trains in battle and strategies and quickly rises to the top. As he ages, he gets better and better.

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Through the rest of the chapters Ender goes through a lot of things like succeeding in battle school which is in space by the way, he kept getting switched to different schools and he gets his own army called Dragon Army, and they win every battle. When Colonel Graff takes Ender to command school, where the readers finds out Ender killed Bonzo and Stilson, Ender later finds out though, Ender also fund out that the game was real war and that he killed the buggers off and he feels bad about it. Ender finally finds out he killed Bonzo and Stilson when he watches Colonel Graff’s trial (Colonel Graff was found not guilty). So, in the end Valentine, Enders sister convinced Ender to move away to another new colony with her, the buggers found a way to talk to Ender telepathically saying how they’re sorry they killed people, they forgive humans for wiping them out and the history of the Bugger species. They leave Ender a queen pupa which means he can restart the species.

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Ender could of told him no, and stayed and watched his world die but he didn’t. He knew that he was different for a reason and this was his reason to leave. His parents would forget and move on and he would forget about them. When all is done he can still come back to his family, and most importantly Valentine “Come back to me! I love you forever” (Card26).

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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---

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Ender accepts the offer to go to military school because, in his naivety, he wants to save the world. Shortly after arriving, Ender learns being a hero is not as glamorous as he thought it would be. Ender is forced to

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In the classic novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a young man who lives in a futuristic world where hostile extraterrestrial beings known as “buggers” have attacked Earth twice, and they almost wiped out mankind in the Second Invasion. The International Fleet (I.F.) plans to attack the bugger world a third time to wipe them out for good, and they take Ender at the young age of 6 to a space station called Battle School to prepare him and other children to possibly graduate to Command School and fight the buggers. Throughout the novel, Card develops Ender’s character traits using influences from other characters, plot development, and Ender changing as he grows older. At the beginning of the story, Ender is 6 years old and wears a small device on his neck, monitoring his behavior to find out whether he is what they need to fight the buggers.

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In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender is continually set up against impossible odds by the International Fleet, which is part of a plan to train Ender to fight in the Third Invasion and end the bugger wars forever. Ender’s trials are portrayed more convincingly in the book, as the book shows him struggling with the expectations placed upon him more so than in the movie. An important theme in Ender’s Game is that Ender is continually kept in the dark about the events happening around him. This theme is prevalent throughout the book, and sets the stage for the book’s climax, the Third Invasion.

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Books are the ideal way to introduce a reader to the many morals of the human society. In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender, is drafted by the international fleet to lead multiple fleets of ships in combat against an alien species, but he does not realize that he was drafted for that purpose. Ender is sent to Battle School, where he becomes a true archetypal leader, and he gains many valuable friends that help him along the way. At a hidden asteroid, Ender begins what he believes are simulations, but really is the Third Invasion.

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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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Without the bugger war, Ender would not have been born, and he realizes this fact. Interestingly enough, the reader never directly see’s the war against the buggers. The only war ever seen directly is the other war that Ender fights every day – the war against the teachers games, against the other kids, against his fear of becoming his brother, against the instinct that drives Ender to hurt other people. Ender’s entire life is made up of these little battles. Ender finds his identity in the battles that he fights and the challenges that he over comes.

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