Ender Wiggin Character Changes

In life a question comes up, do situations change a person or does a person change the situation itself? Phillip Zimbardo once said, “What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?” This quote explains that people are put into different positions in life and they choose to either change or stay the same. In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the main character Ender Wiggin has to save the world from the buggers and along the way he faces different situations. In the novel, Ender Wiggin is usually a compassionate nice young boy. Individuals change when they are put into various different situations. These changes are seen in the novel through the actions of the main character Ender. This will be proven by looking at how people change according to the situations faced in their personal life, in competition, and in life or death situations.
Many people face different types of situations in their own lives and change their mental and/or physical behaviour. These types of situations are seen happening to Ender Wiggin in the novel. Ender plays a game on his
This is proven through Ender Wiggin’s actions as he faced the buggers at Command School and after that. When Ender arrives at Command School, he is told to play a simulator in order to train. He uses any tactic he could in order to win the game. He is not told until the end of the war, when he wins that the simulator is not fake, but real. (Card p. 273-297)
“This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers… you destroyed them completely… Real. Not a game… “I killed them all, didn’t I?” Ender asked… I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! You didn’t want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do