Ender's Game Thesis

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The book “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card, starts off with Ender, a six year old boy, beating a bully up and then beating him up further to show his tragic flaw; Ender will do, anything to win the fight with his aggressors even put himself in their head. Later in the story Ender goes to the “IF Space Station” and learns that the teachers there are not on his friendly side, all the teachers want is a non sentimental, lonely, strategic child leader for the fight against the buggers. Accumulating later in the “Ender’s Game” is the other kids starting to resent Ender because of earlier events in the story causing Ender to endure a harsh environment of many bullies and few friends that are hard to get but are the best of the bunch. Starting later …show more content…
He also has a bad trait that is a effect of the first conqueror, with Ender’s ability to think of everything and how to do it, he uses other people’s thoughts or his expectations to predict what they would do, and if Ender doesn’t accept it he will change it [1;8]. In today’s society the ability to think of everything would make you a god, but the using that to beat anything you distaste would make you a devil, which describes death, chaos, disorder, and betrayal. Later in the book Ender has a moment where he gets in a situation, in which older boys try to beat him up, instead Ender uses his knowledge of Zero-G to fight the boys. In the middle of this fight he thinks to himself, “i’m doing it again, hurting others just to protect myself.”
The setting of “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card is mainly placed on a space station called the “IF (International Fleet) Space Station” which Ender heads up to in the very beginning of the book. The space station is in orbit around Earth and it spins on it’s axis to create artificial gravity. One part of the station doesn’t spin, (it is at the axis,) instead it does not have any gravity creating a zero-G area, this area is a giant sphere with blocks frozen in place throughout the area. The blocks are because they are used in a giant game, therefore this “space” is called the “Battle
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