Game‚ the main character‚ Ender‚ only kills others in self-defense to protect himself and the rest of humanity. Ender has been protecting himself ever since he wore the monitor. He had to protect himself in school by beating up the leader of a gang. Not only did schoolmates hate him for having the monitor but so did his brother‚ Peter. Peter had a monitor that he wore also but he did not have it for as long as Ender did and he will always hold a grudge against Ender for this even once the monitor
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Later on‚ Colonel Hyrum Graff appeared on Wiggin’s doorstep and offered a special place for Ender in the Battle school‚ a school for the training of young children to become soldiers that will one day fight against the Buggers. Colonel Graff told the other boys that Ender was far superior to them and made him earned many enemies from the start. For Ender‚ the training was tough. It felt so lonely but he found friends. He tried his best to be promoted in the difficult training scheme and he exceled
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argues that the power to kill and destroy is the only power that matters‚ but he is wrong. However‚ in Ender’s case when he fights Bonzo‚ it is the last resort and therefore‚ Ender fights to protect himself. Violence should never be the first solution to solving a problem if there are other more peaceful solutions. For example‚ Ender always regrets
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harden Ender’s personality and shape him into the symbolic representation of evil ingrained in the character of Peter. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is constantly being influenced by the deception displayed in his teachers. Specifically‚ Day comments all the teachers alter Ender to become “…convinced that adults should be regarded primarily
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were represented in the reading. First‚ Bonzo and Ender will be tied up in conflict between eachother. From this they could get into a violent fight and so on. I made this assumption beceasue the context of the story makes it seem that Bonzo despises Ender. I saw Bonzo’s hatefull reaction towards Ender many times throughout the reading. First‚ when Ender joined Bonzo’s army he didn’t let him practice or pariticipate in any of the battles. He gave Ender strict orders to not get in the way or interfere
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Enders Game Spears S-Social 1. Ender learns to destroy his enemies once and for all because of his environment: “I have to win this now‚ and for all time‚ or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”(7) 2. Ender is isolated so that he learns to rely on himself: “His isolation can’t be broken.” (38) 3. Ender is sped through the system to mature him more quickly‚ so that he becomes a better commander: “Young as he is‚ we’ve never had a boy better prepared for command.” (154)
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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
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not just the person the change was forced upon. Or as Isaac Newton would refer to this process‚ “Each and every action has an equal and opposite reaction” (Newton’s 3rd Law). The people that were on the short end of the stick in this theory were Ender‚ Bean‚ and Edmond Dantes (Count of Monte Cristo). Three characters from two books that couldn’t be any different except for the common theme: A battle against aliens in space with the human race understanding how to control gravity and a common man
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Valentine is the middle Wiggin sibling – two years younger than Peter‚ two older than Ender – and the only girl. She is kind and empathetic‚ and represents the super-ego in this metaphor. The super-ego is essentially the hub of morality. It begins to develop at a young age and is shaped by parents and similar authority figures‚ things that children view as “higher natures.” “When we were little children we knew these higher natures‚ we admired them and feared them; and later we took them into ourselves”
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There have been many times in human history were empires have crumbled because they lost their way. Whether it is because of corruption in politics‚ ideological views or religion‚ society has had its’ share of setbacks. Over time‚ new civilizations have sprung up out of the ashes of old ones‚ and sometimes these new civilizations are all the better for it. Today’s society has made the same mistakes‚ which has cause us to lose our way‚ and the only way we can truly regain it is to live outside our
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