The novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is compelling with its characterizations and futurist plot line. Written in 1985, the story shows a boy, only 6 years of age named Ender and his journey through battle school with his companions and altercations with enemies to defeat the supposed “threat” of the buggers: alien invaders. A common practice by the characters in the novel is lying and deceiving to gain power; oddly however, the lies and deceit are more useful than telling the truth. Card shows this theme through the motif of power and how those above Ender such as Graff, Valentine and Mazer Rackham lied to him to help Ender gain power. In the novel, Graff is Ender’s commander and deceived Ender in the beginning by taking away his monitor. …show more content…
Ender and Valentine are at his cabin talking about whether or not Ender should save humanity. Valentine simply tells Ender, “If you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault. You killed us all” (282). With pressure on Ender to protect Earth from the buggers coming from all directions the last person he wanted to hear that from was Valentine. Her words provided Ender help in making a decision, but also put him in the position to access more power because of the role he is about to take on. Sequentially, Ender takes it upon himself to make sure that he doesn’t mess up even though the loss, in fact, couldn’t be Enders fault. It’d be the fault of humanity who put so much faith and power into the hands of one simple young boy. It has always been better to try and fail than to never try at all, and that’s what gave Ender the most power: the fact he tried. The deceit from Valentine and her words are what assisted Ender in his journey to try and to strive, this deceit; more or less one of the most helpful in the entire …show more content…
At the end of the novel is where Ender achieves the most power. When Mazer Rackham didn’t lie per say, however, deceived Ender by not explaining that the “simulations” were no longer a game, but real life war against the buggers. Ender finds out the was no game when he finishes the “simulations” and Mazer Rackham says, “Congratulations. You beat them....This was the Third invasion...no games, the battles were real” (340-341). This deception ends up giving Ender the most power because he was now a hero to the human world. Yet, when Ender assumed the game was merely a simulation, he could do the harmful deeds without so much of a conscious, since there was no one real threat of someone being hurt. Therefore, the false sense of security and safety blanketed by the word “simulation” allowed Ender to let his genius flow, and save the Earth from its supposed “threat” of the buggers: even though he thought the game only counted as practice for what was to come. Without this deception, Enders actions would have been less about winning, but making sure he left his armies as safe as possible. By doing this it potentially would leave Ender and the platoons vulnerable to the attack of the buggers. Ultimately, Ender earns his highest achievement of power with the deception given to him by Mazer Rackham and for the sake of humanity, the lie is better and more helpful than the
In Enders Game; there’s many key points in the film that without them, they story would be completely different. Ender gets his call to action when he gets his monitor out and beats up a kid (Bernard). The
Enders Game Ender overcomes his situation but he goes through many obstacles before he can get where his right now. In the beginning of the story Ender gets his monitor removed and when he goes back to class, a kid named Stilson teases him, and Ender seems bored with school because he knows all the answer. After school, he beats up his bully Stilson and it makes him feel like he has become a bully like Peter which makes him cry. Peter is one of his siblings that has a hate love relationship with him because Ender gets selected to go to battle school and had his monitor longer than Peter or Valentine his sister.
Imagine yourself expected to be the leader of the human space fleet with the fate of humanity on your shoulders, along with a psychotic brother threatening murder. In the book, Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, Ender is expected to be the commander of the human space fleet with the goal to defeat an alien species named the buggers. On his journey to command stardom, Ender faces many problems in battle school and back home on Earth. Choosing between the book and movie, the book illustrated a better and more exciting reading experience than the movie. There are many major themes in the Enders Game.
Ender’s Game takes place during a time of war with an alien species called the Buggers. Mankind’s only hope at destroying the enemy lies in the hands of a child named Ender Wiggin. Ender must endure brutal training and preparation in order to defeat the Buggers when the time comes. This wonderful story is told in both book and movie form. However,
Ender’s Game is an enthralling, award-winning sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card. The book follows main character Ender Wiggin as he is brought to a battle school and trained to fight against the buggers, an alien race who started a war with Earth. Ender’s Game is a simple read at surface depth but once you dig deeper, it becomes something valuable. How the themes, plot and characters flawlessly interweave makes this an interesting book to read and be taught.
My copy of the book is one of my favorite possessions because it is one of the few hard copies that I still have. It was passed down to me from my father and spurred my love of science fiction novels. Ender’s Game is the go to for whenever I am in a situation where I will be unable to use my Kindle to read and has survived the dreariness of many tests and many read throughs. Who I am as a reader and a person is continually molded through Ender’s questioning of authority and the love of his siblings who he will never seem to
It was to each other that they became close; it was to each other that they exchanged confidences. Ender was their teacher and commander, as distant from them as Mazer was from him, and as demanding” (282). Graff’s plan of isolating Enger half worked: The International Fleet, under the command of Ender, defeats the Buggers. However, he broke Ender, who will never be the same. No longer confident or trusting, Ender becomes a shell of a human due to the loneliness and isolation he endured.
On Earth there was a bully named, Stilson. Ender found himself getting physically abused by him daily and when he finally got his opportunity, he made sure he was never bullied again. In battle school, there was a commander named, Bonzo that threatened to kill him; then, in the same scenario Ender decided to make sure that he would win the war and erase all future battles. In argument with Major Anderson, Graff states, “Ender’s not a killer. He just wins--thoroughly” (226).
End them or end us. But heaven knows there was no other way you could’ve done it,” (Card pg.296). This shows that Mazer knew that if they had done nothing during the fight against the bugger humanity would be in danger because the buggers would’ve came back to wipe out humanity. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Mazer said that it was, “all or nothing”, which meant that they could do everything they could and win or do nothing and lose. These quotes prove that inaction leads to loss because throughout Ender’s Game the characters like Ender and Mazer have been through battles where they know that if they don’t do anything at all
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
Scott Macarthy Mr. Werley English III 22 September 2014 The Destruction of Ender A utopia is supposed to be a perfect world, yet there are rarely any true utopias. Ender’s Game begins with a utopic society, where the government pits Earth against the nasty and evil buggers. Throughout Ender 's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, the reader follows the main protagonist, Ender, from his journey as a young boy on Earth to the hopes of being the next great commander in the fight against the buggers.
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.
WHAT IS POWER?? Power is a dangerous weapon in life. It can both destroy and save the world. In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, and in Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, power is used to abuse people.