Ender's Game Character Analysis

Ender’s Game Essay

In our everyday life, we make decisions, which might change the world we live in. However, each decision we make has an impact on our life and is therefore important. Each time we choose one thing over another, we draw from our previous knowledge to make the best choice we can .In this book Ender’s Game by “Orson Scott Card,” he created characters that not only showed the meanings of their lives, but he creates a story that shows feelings and emotions crossed by his characters that the plot itself revolves around themes, ideas, and morals, not the other way around.
Ender Wiggin, the protagonist, was born in a time when population restriction laws were in effect. The people of the time could only have two children.
His name was Ender Wiggin. Ender was picked-on for being the third person in the family, by a kid named Stilson who they thought was not worthy of living. At the end of the school day Stilson's gang confronts Ender, after the hallways empty, and threatens to beat Ender up. Ender responds by brutally attacking the older, bigger, and heavier Stilson. He kicks the child's face, ribs, and groin while he is down, though it is obvious that Stilson could not fight back. 3 children were related but had different personalities Peter the eldest is brutal, angry, and remorseless. Valentine, the second, is sweet, compassionate, and hopeful. Ender, the youngest, feels himself torn as he is as brutal as Peter, but as compassionate as Valentine. The very next day an officer from International Fleet (or I.F., Earth's government and army to fight against the Buggers) named Colonel Graff comes under the pretense of interrogating Ender for the incident with Stilson the previous day. Ender explains that he defended himself, and then decided to keep kicking because, "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." Chapter 3, pg 19. So Ender was invited to join the
As soon as Graff returns to his cabin, boys start picking on Ender because of Graff's work. The child behind Ender pokes him in the head repeatedly. Patiently, Ender times when the next blow would arrive, and breaks the assailant's arm. Ender's newest tormentor is that boy who broke his arm, Bernard. The students are introduced to the battle room for the first time. They wear stiff flash suits and have glass-like laser guns. Ender begins flying around and testing out the suit. He saw that pulling the trigger on the gun illuminated some light on the floor. The two new friends collect their closest friends, Shen and Bernard, and attack the other sixteen launch members. Later that day Ender's character is faced with two drinks, and if he chooses right, he can go to "Fairyland." The game is rigged, though, because all the drinks kill him and it cannot be defeated. The character's deaths are always gruesome, and Ender has tried and tried until the game shuts down. “Ender gets fed up this time, and decides not to play by the rules. His character kicks the drinks over and claws into the Giant's eye, knocking the Giant over and killing him. Ender is simultaneously excited and revolted. Ender thinks, "I'm a murderer, even when I play. Peter would be proud of me." The game then shuts