Leadership In Ender's Game

From the dawn of time to the end of the world as humanity knows it, where there is sentience, there will always be leaders. In Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, leadership is displayed by numerous characters, children, and adults, almost all of which displayed some forms of eloquence, empathy, and organization. Eloquence is needed for a leader to secure the trust and loyalty of their followers, after all, would one follow a leader they could not trust? In order to be on the cutting edge of strategy and innovation, one must be empathetic and able to understand the desires of both their peers and their enemies. To maintain leadership, a leader has to be organized, each of their decisions must be calculated, their resources should be set out in front of them for them to know all of their options at any time.

In Ender’s Game, characters showing leadership often display eloquence in their speech and writing. The ability to use words in such an elegant fashion allows the user nearly unlimited potential. Ender convinces Bonzo to fight him alone by taking what he already knew about Bonzo’s history and using the information to verbally attack him, claiming that Bonzo had no honor. This event shows that Ender, the best example of a leader in the book, knows how to use words as weapons. Colonel Graff displays his persuasive side when convincing
Empathetic leaders have the ability to understand their enemies, they can know how their enemies feel. Organized leaders have everything laid out for them to see, they know what they can do and thus, know what they will do. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game displays leadership in a different way than most books, showing the abilities of a child unlike anything before it. The children in this novel show eloquence, empathy and organizational skills, commanding armies more efficiently than their superiors. Ender, Valentine, Peter. Graff and Mazer are true