Change In Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card
Change is inevitable, whether it's good or bad it happens to everyone, including Ender Wiggin. In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, to say Ender’s life is challenging is an understatement. In a world where people are only allowed to have two children, being a third child ensures dilemma for Ender. He is constantly tormented by others around him. His sadistic brother Peter harasses him at home, and he’s bullied almost everywhere he goes. It seems as if the only person who cares for him is his sister, Valentine. As the plot progresses, Ender makes the life changing decision to leave home and all he has ever known, to be sent into outer space and attend battle school to help exterminate the Buggers, an alien race threatening human existence. Ender
surpasses all the obstacles in his way, but whilst doing so, he loses himself in the process. He transforms almost completely from a kind, eager, ambitious, and determined youth to a military leader who is weary, lonely, mistrustful, and lacks motivation. In the beginning of the novel, Ender is intelligent and eager to learn. He demonstrates this on multiple occasions. While in school “he was the one who had figured out how to send messages… ” (Card 5), furthermore, soon after Ender and his group of launchies arrived at battle school, “...he was able to set up a file for a nonexistent student…” (Card 49), showing that he picked up concepts rapidly, and used them to his advantage. Ender, additionally, is ambitious and determined. When he is showed the game room, a game the older kids are playing catches his eye, and within an hour of observing, decides “I could beat them…” (Card 46) and although he loses the first time, he redeems himself by beating the older kid twice right after. Demonstrating that Ender could achieve anything that he set him mind to. Also, when playing the mind game, Ender was relentless at passing the stage revolving around the Giant’s Drink. According to Card, “Sometimes his head was dissolved. Sometimes he caught on fire. Sometimes he fell in and drowned. Sometimes he fell out, turned green, and rotted away” (63). The repetitiveness of this displays that he was persistent, and strived to finish the game.
surpasses all the obstacles in his way, but whilst doing so, he loses himself in the process. He transforms almost completely from a kind, eager, ambitious, and determined youth to a military leader who is weary, lonely, mistrustful, and lacks motivation. In the beginning of the novel, Ender is intelligent and eager to learn. He demonstrates this on multiple occasions. While in school “he was the one who had figured out how to send messages… ” (Card 5), furthermore, soon after Ender and his group of launchies arrived at battle school, “...he was able to set up a file for a nonexistent student…” (Card 49), showing that he picked up concepts rapidly, and used them to his advantage. Ender, additionally, is ambitious and determined. When he is showed the game room, a game the older kids are playing catches his eye, and within an hour of observing, decides “I could beat them…” (Card 46) and although he loses the first time, he redeems himself by beating the older kid twice right after. Demonstrating that Ender could achieve anything that he set him mind to. Also, when playing the mind game, Ender was relentless at passing the stage revolving around the Giant’s Drink. According to Card, “Sometimes his head was dissolved. Sometimes he caught on fire. Sometimes he fell in and drowned. Sometimes he fell out, turned green, and rotted away” (63). The repetitiveness of this displays that he was persistent, and strived to finish the game.