Greatness: Differences Between Ender And Colonel Graff

Greatness, being one of the most desired, and the most respected traits by humanity throughout history. For countless generations humanity struggles trying to find change, trying to produce someone who can make that change which has been sought after for so long, someone who is great. While genetics may be what often makes a person a genius, greatness is created with the addition of experience, a very particular type of experience unique to the individual that changes them into the best possible version of themselves. Ender proves his greatness by defeating the vastly superior enemy of earth, and he is able to through his experience with battle school’s unforgiving environment and Graff’s harsh training that is specific to Ender. To reach
Accordingly, Graff is always manipulating Ender into being separate others, and his doing so almost always exposes the higher qualities Ender posses. The two fights mentioned earlier did not merely happen by accident, they were intentionally composed for the very purpose of bringing out Ender’s best. Not only did Graff manipulate Ender into fighting Stillson and Bonzo, but he also lengthened the divide between Ender and his classmates by pointing him out as superior to all of his peers during the trip to Battle School from Earth. However, despite him being initially an outcast, Ender proves his ability to attain loyalty by gradually gaining the friendship, trust and respect of those around him through clever means. Once more Graff isolates Ender, but by separating him from his peers, rather Graff forces him into new situations that he alone must explore where he must lead Dragon Army through battles that no other commander has ever experienced, where the odds are against him and almost no one but himself can help him. Through Graff’s training methods of separation as previously described, Ender’s brightest qualities were
He is provided a task force of individuals to assist him, and only by that assistance does Ender succeed. Seemingly this undermines the theory that his seclusion is what brings his best skills to the surface, but this is not so. First of all, at this point all of his finest features had already arose in him; it is for this very reason he was allowed to fight the Bugger’s at all, because the teachers already felt he had reached his maximum potential. Together with his companions Ender was not improved, rather it was Ender alone whose grand strategy defeated the buggers, his team was an extension of his will, being merely fine tool with which he destroyed the