Research Paper On Ender's Game

English
11 March 2014
Ender’s Game Research Paper

So I could be wrong here, but I don’t think I am the only one who wanted to know how to wipe out an entire alien race, and enjoy doing it. If I am correct, and you are in fact looking just for that, then boy do I have a treat for you! Because Orson Scott Card has the key! Ender in Ender’s Game is a quiet boy who isn’t like the others--he has a small black box on his body. No, he isn’t under house arrest, Ender is part of a government plan to create an army. Throughout his life Ender has to worry about a whole lot more than if a girl likes him, Ender has to think and decide whether or not he has it in him to save the world. Most people have their entire early lives/childhood to decide
For example in India they had the caste system, the caste system is “a system of social stratification which is used as a basis for affirmative action (positive discrimination)” (Independence Hall Association). The caste system included four levels of a pyramid, they have the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras. Although there is no social pyramid with Ender, they have a rule that families cannot have more than two children unless they sign one over to the military. This sounds terrible but Ender’s parents did this because both of their prior children almost made it into the army but they had their own personality flaws on opposite poles, Valentine was too nice, and Peter was too mean. Because of this, Ender’s parents thought (and hoped) that if they had a child on either side of the spectrum, that their third child would be in the center, perfectly
This when used in the above thesis is stating that a childhood is a child’s property, and you are committing a crime and literally robbing them. Ender is technically robbed from his parents because when Graff asked them if he could talk to Ender outside (alone), and declined, he said, “You really can’t stop me.” (Card 51). When he says this he is reminding them that before Ender was born he was given away to the government, and if Graff wanted to, he could take Ender away and they wouldn’t be able to stop him or do anything about it. Another, more playful, definition of “rob” is, “informal or dialect steal” (“Rob” 1.2). Although this definition in this form is in a more joking manner, it still has some very good examples to go with it. Ender robs (“Rob” 1.2) others of winning frequently, and robs his friends of the commander position. Ender would frequently win games and subsequently rob others of their positions on the leaderboards as