The Ender And Rdquo Analysis

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Heegie Song Sladky 10th Grade Literature and Composition 7th August 2009 The Ender’s Game In every book a message is always portrayed. While some messages are shown less than others, all books happen to have a message shown throughout it. In “The Ender’s Game”, leadership is shown at its finest. Ender Wiggin, merely six years old, is thrown into a completely different world when he is taken away from his home and put into an elite training school. Throughout the six years that he is enrolled in the training school, he becomes more like a leader then ever possible. Leadership is shown in Ender through three main points: his willingness to sacrifice, his way of being compassionate and observant, and his drive…show more content…
In the beginning of the story, it opens up by Ender being taunted by Stilson and a few of his friends at school for being a Third. Ender, knowing that this would not be a happy ending for him, quickly decides to fight Stilson. At the end of the match, Stilson lays motionless on the ground. Although Ender knows it is forbidden to strike an opponent who lays helpless on the ground, he viciously kicks Stilson in the rib, groin, and finally in the face (Card 7). When asked by the I.F. officer later on why he decided to keep on kicking Stilson although he was already down, Ender replies by saying "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." (Card 19) Even in the middle of the book when Ender is confiding in Bean, he states that he felt he could not lose any of the battles, for some reason which he did not reveal (Card 197). This drive is so embedded into Ender’s personality that even he can not understand it himself, or it is so personal he can not even reveal it to one of his closest companions while at the school. This gives Ender a passion that soon boosts the rest of his army, and they too come to realize that being good is not enough; they have to be superior. Although these are just three characteristics that explain why Ender is such a great leader, there are many more reasons listed in the
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