Traditional Stereotypes In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card has written countless novels during his career, filled with excitement and sci-fi themes. Card has implied many western stereotypes throughout his reign of the sci-fi entertainment business. Arguably his most famous of those being Ender’s Game. Throughout the book Ender must go through training to become a commander in the war against buggers while Earth was going through a worldwide crisis. The book introduced minimal realistic male and female characters, of which followed close traditional stereotypes. Throughout this book there are countless examples of the common gender issue in today’s society exploited. Today it is widely believed of equality in rights for all people regardless of heritage, race and gender. A majority of people in the world are in the support of female lead characters and an increase in the books regarding females. As time continues literature has introduced female leads with problems outside the typical house or friend issues. The only female characters introduced in the book with at least one quote is

Out of those three females when applying the Bachdel test to the given characters, females talking to one another about something other than a male, Enders game fails. During the book Ender’s mother fulfills the stereotypical caring mother for all her children and Valentine fulfills the stereotypical role of female in the book spends a majority of the book carrying for and trying to help Ender instead of helping herself or her government instead has Ender take these responsibilities. Petra is the one exception to the stereotypical female roles being in the military but, at the beginning of the book Card told us only the smartest kids made it to Battle School. This implies the ideas of women either not being smart enough to go or