How Does Technology Affect The Ender's Game
For the longest time, technology has aided humans with both simple everyday tasks and complex tasks, but it will not take much longer before it’s power becomes misused. In the novel Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, the community must reduce the amount of technology used because it negatively impacts the society by allowing individuals to obtain too much power, threatening citizen’s privacy, and corrupting the minds of children. First of all, people can gain too much power from technology. An example of this scenario is Valentine Wiggin. When she was writing articles online under the name “Demosthenes” Valentine reflects: “The fun letters, from national bank and international leaders sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly alway
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Firstly, the battle room makes the children enemies with another army. While Dink is having a conversation with Ender at the dining hall, Dink suggests: “ ‘They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves trying to beat each other…’ ” (Card 143). The battleroom is a simulation of what happens in a real battle but instead of making the buggers their threat, they don’t see other armies as humans but instead as obstacles preventing them from gaining victory. . If the technology for the battleroom was not invented, their would be no hunger for victory so there would be no harsh riverallies between armies. Identically, the fantasy game forces the children to think in cruel ways that they normal do not think in. When Ender is playing the fantasy game and is stuck at the giant’s drink, he reports: “ He jumped at the Giant’s face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. The stuff came away like cottage cheese, and as the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed in it’s eye ,climbed right in, burrowed in and in.” The image of a boy gashing out somebody’s eye is disturbing but the only way they can win the fantasy game is if they think in way that they are not used to thinking in. If the game was not programed to push a child beyond a reasonable limit then they would not have to center their attention to such horrid thoughts. In summary, the technology damages the way that children think and how they view each other as a
Firstly, the battle room makes the children enemies with another army. While Dink is having a conversation with Ender at the dining hall, Dink suggests: “ ‘They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves trying to beat each other…’ ” (Card 143). The battleroom is a simulation of what happens in a real battle but instead of making the buggers their threat, they don’t see other armies as humans but instead as obstacles preventing them from gaining victory. . If the technology for the battleroom was not invented, their would be no hunger for victory so there would be no harsh riverallies between armies. Identically, the fantasy game forces the children to think in cruel ways that they normal do not think in. When Ender is playing the fantasy game and is stuck at the giant’s drink, he reports: “ He jumped at the Giant’s face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. The stuff came away like cottage cheese, and as the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed in it’s eye ,climbed right in, burrowed in and in.” The image of a boy gashing out somebody’s eye is disturbing but the only way they can win the fantasy game is if they think in way that they are not used to thinking in. If the game was not programed to push a child beyond a reasonable limit then they would not have to center their attention to such horrid thoughts. In summary, the technology damages the way that children think and how they view each other as a