Ender Wiggin has been a pawn in others’ lives his whole life. He never truly was given a real choice in anything, he was manipulated into thinking the choice the adults want him to make is the right decision. Kessler says Ender should not be pitied for being manipulated into committing genocide. Although many others feel that Ender had no part in deciding to kill all the Buggers, he thought it was just a “game.” First off, Ender has been physically and emotionally abused his whole life. Emotional abuse as a child can cause aggressive and violent behavior throughout their life, no matter how old they are. Physical abuse as a child can cause periods of apathy where the victim is apathetic for a period of time. These are obvious explanations …show more content…
Ender was a “third” this was not normal in the society he grew up in, so he was picked of often by children at school and by his brother at home causing social isolation and sadness in Ender. This makes all of Ender’s anger bottle up inside of him since he has no release. So when Stilson provokes Ender after school, all of Ender’s anger unleashes itself on Stilson causing Ender to kill him. Ender always had good intentions, he just never carried out what he was doing in a way that it ended well. When Ender destroyed the planet and its’ defenders in the simulation, he was trying to make the adults think he were crazy so he could get out of command school. What he didn’t know, was that it wasn’t a simulation, it was a real battle against the buggers. Ender never really wanted to kill, he was manipulated and abused into it by the adults and his peers. Ender had little social interaction at battle school and command school, he wanted to go home. Many people feel bad for Ender since he lived a life controlled by adults and other people, but never himself. Ender didn’t make more than 10 decisions without being manipulated. Ender would be a good person if other people didn’t mess him up from the
HE never wanted to kill the buggers he wanted to see if the war was a mistake or misunderstanding. He wanted to talk to the buggers and figure them out. Ender’s ability to see patterns as shown through his ability to reorient his gravitational angle, his great ability to think like the enemy and see from the enemy’s perspective,through his ability to innovate unique battle strategies.
General Graff’s goal is for Ender to have an aggressive approach and a killer instinct yet able to understand the buggers nature and relate to them. Ender still doesn’t truly want to destroy the buggers. Since he is manipulated, Ender kills all of them, if it was up to him he would leave them alone and try to communicate with them somehow. But what is done is done since they attacked first assumptions can be made that they are trying to take over the human world, so precautions must be taken. For Ender he needs to choose to save humans or the
Ender does show his feelings of kindness and other emotions occasionally throughout the book, but we see more of his dangerous “Peter-like” side than anything. Peter always seemed to take things too far, because of his power hungry wants. Although Ender doesn’t necessarily want everyone to bow down to him, he does go a little out of hand when he gets angry. His burts could almost make the reader describe him as having a “rage disorder”, which, according to valleybehavioral.com, is violent outbursts filled with “sudden episodes of unwanted anger.” Ender takes his anger out on others when he stressed or sad, and usually, without meaning too, ends up killing someone.
Later on in the book, Ender beats up somebody else to the point of death; his name is Bonzo. Like before, the I.F. also does not tell Ender this information, as seen in this quote, “At least they had the good sense not to tell Ender that the boy died” (266). The reason for this is because after monitoring Ender for three years, the I.F. knows that Ender has compassion. Thus, if they told him that he had committed murder twice, it would devastate Ender. This would not be good for the I.F., because Ender
I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist” (Card, 279). Ender begins to recapitulate his actions during his colloquial conversation with his sister Valentine his ruthless ways formulated in the battle school. His statement describes him taking murderous actions and wanting to decimate his enemies. Through his statement it his evident that the battle school has formed him into a killer, for he states he attacks them until they don’t exist, implying
The whole time Ender had not been aware he had killed them, and the leaders were manipulating him for his own sake. They explain that they didn’t tell him that he actually killed both Bonzo and Stilson; so that he wouldn’t think of himself as a killer. Throughout the book Ender repeats that he doesn’t want to hurt anyone and doesn’t like that he has to be violent in order to be safe. If Ender would’ve found out, it would destroy his motivation and drive to want to be the best he can be. All in all, Ender is an overall better person because of the fact he didn’t know the
While the other soldiers may think Ender is pleased at defeating them, Ender reveals how that isn't true. When Ender visits Valentine back on Earth, he explains, “"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” (184) His understanding is a double edged sword, though it gives Ender the ability to defeat his enemies, he also feels pain in doing so. The greatest example of this is when Ender defeats the buggers themselves, the main goal of the story.
Ender realizes a bunch of things that are wrong but can easily be fixed and that would lead to many advantages that set him apart. For example he realizes the well-rehearsed formations were a mistake because it meant they were predictable, as well as there was no room for adjustment to what the enemy did against formations. After doing more research Ender realized that he could fix these disadvantages and make them into advantages. These advantages would result in his teams core competence or in other words these new advantages would be how his team found a competitive advantage against the other teams. Ender could have better reached his goal of determining his core competence by using the information he did know and building on it to make it a strength of his and for it to become a
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.
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.
However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.
From all of this, Ender’s Game obtained a multitude of distinguished
Calculating Judgments For someone so young, Ender is exceptionally calculating. In almost the very beginning of the novel, the author shows Ender being bullied by Stilson and his gang. Ender realizes that he must thoroughly beat Stilson so the rest of the gang wouldn’t pick on Ender ever
This causes problems only to himself when he refuses to acknowledge Ender’s potential in battles making him look foolish to other characters. Violence and revenge is his way to solve his problems, but it ultimately fails and creates more. He doesn’t enforce discipline but destroys
In the beginning, before Ender left Earth, Ender used to get bullied in school by another kid named Stilson. It came to a point when Ender had to defend for himself. Stilson and his friends bullied Ender, so in order for them to leave Ender alone, he shows his aggression by constantly kicking Stilson while he was down. Ender did that to prevent Stilson or his friends from hurting him again. After leaving the room, he feels terrible because of the fact that he’s passionate and he didn’t want to hurt Stilson.