Ender's Game Essay

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Enders Game Orson Scott Card Enders Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is a fictional novel that takes place in a distant future Earth. Ender Wiggin is a Third. A Third a place of disgrace in the social eyes of his family. Due to overcrowding on humanities home world each family is limited to only two children. The Wiggins family was recruited by the IF (International Forces) to breed genius children. Enders two older siblings, Valentine and Peter, were not what the IF needed them to be due Peters excessive aggression and Valentine being to passive. Both were brilliant but they needed a middle ground between the two. So a Third was allowed to be born within the Wiggins family. Ender was just as brilliant as either of his older siblings…show more content…
He was given a specific fleet to command with his friends he had met from Battle School under his Command. He fights more and more difficult battle each day. Believing they are all fictional training simulations. When his instructor tells him the battle he is about to fight will be his final exam for the academy Ender is already pushed to his limit. The battle begins with insurmountable odds. A thousand bugger ships to every one in Enders command. Believing this is only a simulation and failing would mean getting to go home Ender throws his fleet in a projectile shaped formation through the thousands of enemy ships while aiming their secret weapon at the Buggers home world. Ender receives extreme loses but in the end wipes out the entire Bugger civilization. Only after the battle does Ender realize that all the simulations he’s been running have actually been real battles. With real pilots he’s been sending to their deaths. Back on Earth he is a hero. An eleven year old boy that saved all of humanity. But on the small moon Eros where the IF headquarters is located Ender feels like a monster. Killing billions of creatures without knowing he was doing it. Enders sister is able to convince him that what he did was necessary to save everybody. She also convinced him to move to a colony planet with her and become governor. Peter remained on Earth and became Hegemon, a worldwide

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