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Why Are Enders Be Allowed As Close To A Normal Childhood

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Childhood is not necessarily a right, but what many common households provide for their children. Although, there is also children like those from “Ender's Game” that don’t receive the opportunity to develop in what we would call a “normal childhood”. Graff states “Of course we already have your consent, granted in writing at the time conception was confirmed or he could not have been born,” (Lee Chapter 3 pg. 50). The only reason for Ender's existence was so that the government could “own” him till he became insignificant to their plan. Today people see childhood as an important stage for their development. Yet Ender's childhood consisted of constantly being monitored till he was six. Where he then attended Battle School and was taught to fight, while facing isolation. …show more content…

The adults of this book constantly break the opportunity of a natural development in childhood through their decisions of monitoring children and deciding their worth towards their plan. Those that are robbed of a normal childhood will be affected on a large mental scale. Their stability as they become an adult could be compromised if they are unable to overcome the disturbances faced in their childhood. As an adult, you are expected to be responsible, make smart decisions, and better understand the world. Although, when Ender feels that “the most terrible thing...was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation and was ready to be Ender's enemy,” he gives off the impression of vulnerability towards trust (Lee Chapter 10 pg. 209). His fear in what other people may feel towards him will ultimately lead to suffering with trust problems. Thus, affecting himself as a whole, if he is unable to overcome it. This could further result in an instability between Enders relationship with

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Everything has its secrets “Persuade him that he wants to come with us more than he wants to stay... if that doesn’t work ill lie to him”(Card16).In the book “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card, one of the main characters Colonel Graff leads ender through his missions. Ender is chosen from a mix of his brother and sister’s personalities. Peter was too violent, Valentine was to caring and forgiving, and thus ender has both these characteristics. Graff has been watching him, even before battle school and has secretly been testing him. Graff prepares him for a life changing war between them and the buggers.

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However, his friends now regard him as a teacher and “legendary soldier”. They stopped including Ender in their friendly conversations. Ender yearns to be a part of his old company but is frustrated at being excluded instead. This is evident from Ender’s realisation of his exclusion by his friends to for which he states “How could they think I was part of it? Did I laugh?

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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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Everytime ender switches to a different new place he is commonly treated good and then bad and then good and so I think after it is going to be bad. The first place he went to from earth was the battle school. At the battle school ender was greeted by dap who liked ender and treated him nicely and by the other launchies and the school. Next, ender got put to the salamander army, when he was at the salamander army the leader named bonzo did not like ender that much and he wouldn’t let Ender do it with the other kids. They had a battle with a group named Condor, he didn’t let ender come and he had to hide somewhere for a long time which was very boring for ender.

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In the book, it is made completely clear that the system of both the Battle School and Command School are breaking Ender down, ultimately demonstrated by Ender being completely bedridden after the Third Invasion due to everything he’s endured. This also happens with the movie’s presentation of the characters, with more characters being sympathetic to Ender. This completely overrides a plot point in the book,

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The first major event that showed Ender enduring some troubles was when he woke up in the middle of the night and found that “there was blood” on his bed, and he had been “gnawing on his own fist” (285) in the middle of the night, in his sleep. This revealed to the reader that the strong and powerful Ender might be beginning to crack and show a

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"…she squeezed his knee…where he had always been most ticklish. But almost at the same moment, he caught her wrist in his hand. His grip was very strong, even though his hands were smaller than hers and his own arms were slender and tight. For a moment he looked dangerous; then he relaxed." () Unknowingly Ender has surrendered to the virtuous boy he once was in exchange for the arduous adolescent he is now, confirming what the Battle School destined him to become.

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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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After all of the trauma, heartbreak, and mental abuse that the Battle School put Ender through, he has finally broken down. Over the course of a few years, Ender’s human endurance has been pushed far past his limits. Once again, he had to force himself onto another as an act of self-defense. Although he did not wish to harm either of his past attackers, Ender did not want to be killed either. After his fight with Bonzo, Ender no longer has faith in the Battle School.

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When Ender was talking to himself he said,”the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you’re always subject to those who can, and no one will ever save you,”(Card pg.212). This shows that inaction can make people prone to lose against people who have power can have power over them because inaction leaves them open and defenseless to those they could restrain. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Ender is referring to the fight against Stilson, Bonzo, and Bernard because if he had waited for the teachers to respond to call for help they would’ve overpowered him and he would’ve lost. After ender defeated the buggers Mazer Rackham told Ender, “you made the hard choice, boy. All or nothing.

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