The True Meaning Of Ender's Game By John Kessel

John Kessel makes a few good points about Ender’s Game and the damaging effect it has on the readers. Kessel makes his stance clear and expresses four main points that Orson makes during his book: Ender is innocent and perfect, Training equals intent, intention is based on morality, and you do not have to worry about the families who were affected by the deaths of both the Stilson and Madrid boys. After reading the book myself, the points above seem to be valid and they seem to make up the book.
Ender is “perfect”. Early in the book(not even past the first chapter), Andrew Wiggin beats up a little boy named Stilson and shows no mercy as it is later said that he kept beating him to the point of death. Orson portrays the Stilson boy to be a

If he was meant to be the next big shot commander and was expected to be so perfect, then why did it matter at what point of time he exterminated the entire race of the Buggers? Orson argues that Ender did not have the intent to kill, he just had the ability to. But if Ender’s life was devoted to one simple task, he should be held accountable for that task. Instead of being considered a killer and cold-blooded murder, Orson again makes him look perfectly innocent and even tries to evoke sympathy for him. As Kessel said in his essay, “Despite his moral preoccupations, in this summary of his novel Card seems less interested in interrogating ender’s morality than in evoking sympathy for him.” The rare occasion that Card does involve morals was at a speaking event where he said, “I don’t really think it’s true that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Good people trying to do good usually find a way to muddle through. What worries me is when you have bad people trying to do good. They’re not good at it, they don’t have any instinct for it, and they’re willing to do a lot of damage along the way.” Orson is arguing that Andrew is good and can only do good and that people like Peter are bad and can only do bad. But “poor little Andrew Wiggin” was never a great person in the first place. Even though he may have been sweet and joyful at times, he still had the

Orson seemed to avoid these topics and knew that he could not make any arguments against them. Imagine a working mother who loves her son to the moon and back and tries everything to better his life. One ordinary school day, she takes him to school and drops him off while saying the usual, “see you later”. But that little boy never meets up with his mother after school. She hears that her Kindergartener had circled around some other little boy with his friends and was playing around when out of nowhere, that little boy decided to beat him up to the point of death. The most important person in her life is now dead and she will never have a normal life again. Now, the heartbroken “mommy” tries desperately to give her son justice, but realizes that the killer had been sent to Battle School. A little boy killed her son and got no punishment. When I told you the same story in the perspective of the family of the Stilson boy and his family, you look at the situation a bit differently. But Graff said he is not a murderer and Orson said it was morally justified. After about five years, Ender ended up, “saving the world.” Now you also have a devastated Madrid family who loss their own kid which they had devoted their lives into and had made successful. But when try try to protest the well-being of Ender, everyone argues that he was innocent and was near insanity. No justice is served, and