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Ender Wiggin Analysis
Even as an young as six years old Andrew Ender Wiggin using his sense of judgment to constantly overcome physical and emotional challenges. Ender Wiggin is the third child born into a family of brilliant children. He is selected by a military force to save the world from destruction by the Buggers, which are aliens. Before Ender was chosen, he wears a monitor that allows the head of the military to see everything he does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, but neither one of them were selected, and they did not wear it as long as Ender did. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out he still does not like him. Ender's schoolmates do not like him as well , and he is forced to be alone. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.
During school, Ender is tormented by a bully named Stilson and his gang of friends. Even though Ender is outnumbered, he is able to quickly evaluate the situation and discover that the only way to truly stop him is to completely
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This often leads us to see the world as we are taught to see it. This is also the case with Ender, when he is tricked into being the commander of the third Bugger invasion. Although he did not realize it at the time, he is ultimately betrayed by his own kind because he was taught to expect battle games, not a real life battle. Even though he faced many challenges, which shaped his character, none were as difficult as finding out he had killed an entire race. Ender was never told that he was not practicing with a simulator anymore, so it was not his fault for killing them, but this emotional difficulty changed his character

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