Manipulation and Deception in Ender’s Game 2 major and reoccurring themes throughout Ender’s Game is manipulation and deception. Much of this novel is about how adults manipulate Ender into fulfilling their needs. They trick him‚ lie to him‚ and tell him just enough so that he can defeat the buggers. Ender pretty much sums this up when he says‚ “I’ve spent my life as someone’s pawn" (Pg. 97). On one hand‚ it seems wrong to lie to and cheat a kid. On the other hand‚ the adults manipulate him to ensure
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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set in a future where Earth has been involved in a 50 year long war against an alien force‚ known as “Buggers”. Earth’s three ruling parties‚ the Hegemon‚ Polemarch and Strategos form an International Fleet to fight the “Buggers”. The International Fleet created the Battle School to train the most gifted children‚ with the best strategic minds to fight in the IF. Children were chosen because having been raised on video war games their decisions are intuitive‚ decisive
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Ender represents the best picture of leadership. He is dedicated to learning‚ to doing well‚ is innovative‚ comprehends everything he sets his mind to‚ has strong self-awareness‚ has strong group dynamics-awareness‚ understands power dynamics‚ and is understanding and compassionate towards those he leads. He understands that he has to sometimes do things that he doesn’t want to‚ to have a point made or a mission accomplished. He knows how to evaluate talent and abilities and knows how to adapt
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practiced mass maneuvers‚ preformed strategies. Ender had none. Instead he trained his toon leaders to use their small units effectively in achieving limited goals. Unsupported‚ alone‚ on their own initiative. He staged mock wars after the first week‚ savage affairs in the practice room that left everybody exhausted. But he knew‚ with less than a month of training‚ that his army had the potential of being the best fighting group ever to play the game.” Ender thinks outside of the box‚ and that is what
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Ender’s Game. New York: Tom Doherty Associates‚ 1977. PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF THE NOVEL: Ender’s Game‚ by Orson Scott Card‚ is the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin‚ a third born child in a prejudiced‚ futuristic world‚ as he is recruited to train at battle school to fight the “buggers”‚ an alien species that previously tried to wipe out the human race. Little does he know that Colonel Graff‚ the commander of battle school‚ is the puppet master of a scheme to brutally train Ender to lead the
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Logan Gaskey Film Paper: Ender’s Game When I walked into the movie theater‚ there were a good amount of people that came to see it. They all seemed to have a feeling of anticipation for this movie adaptation of the novel. I bet that most of the people that were in the theater the night that I went to watch it all read the book about‚ so they know what they are getting into and the book has been out for a while so needed to have established some sense of familiarity with the movie. I noticed
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Book Report Enders Game Journal Entry #1 I selected this book because I was thinking that it would keep me entertained and make it so that I will not fall asleep. This was one of those books that it did not matter about what happened before it you can just start reading it from the start‚ so before the book began I have now idea what happened I just started to read the book and I liked it. When the book begins it starts out with ender and his brother and sister and his brother is mean and is
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ENDERS GAME "When you fight an enemy‚ you can’t just win the fight. You have to knock them so far back that they won’t fight anymore. You have to win the battles to come before they happen.” A good quote from the character Ender Wiggin. I read the book Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card. It is a very good book in my opinion‚ there is many things that can be taken and learned from it. For example I learned that when leading your men you have to know their strengths and weaknesses and what they
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something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you’re good for. We might both do despicable things‚ Ender‚ but if humankind survives‚ then we were good tools." Graff is explaining to Ender the philosophy behind everything they are doing. Although Ender does not know it at the time‚ this is the same reasoning that the adults will use to manipulate the children time and time again. Ender objects to this idea‚ because he believes that people are more than just tools‚ but nevertheless it is the
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Ender’s Game is a military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth’s future‚ the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "Buggers"‚ an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion‚ children‚ including the novel’s protagonist‚ Ender Wiggin‚ are trained at a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity‚ where Ender’s tactical genius is revealed. The book originated as the short
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