Humanities Sabrina Huaraque Ender’s Game essay 10/14/2012 “ In the moment when I truly understand my enemy understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him” * Ender Wiggins Through out the stretch of Ender’s Game, Ender is obviously very logical in his decision making and his leadership style but I believe that what makes him such a good leader is his ability to lead with a heart. To think his decisions though considering how they will affect the people around him. Also through the book he learns to care for people and do everything in his power to help them. For example while training Bean, Ender pushes him as far as he knows bean can go but at the same time he truly care for Bean’s well being.
Ender goes through many hardships in order to be molded into the warrior they need him to become. Ender has a brother named Peter who is a psychopathic child that loves to abuse Ender. Their sister's name is Valentine and she is a loving, caring sister that takes care of Ender. Ender loves Valentine and, while he fears Peter, always wants to earn his respect and love. In the first few pages alone they take his monitor away leaving him alone to endure the taunting of his jealous classmates.
Raised by their father to respect and revere the dictator Trujillo Minerva Mirabal develops a natural suspicion of such blatant authoritarianism. These misgivings are further consolidated when she meets a friend at school who informs her that Rafael Trujillo is secretly disposing of anyone who speaks out against him. The film and the movie portray this scenario very similarly as it is one of the scenes that will sow the seeds of future rebellion in Minerva. This is the first time that Minerva starts to think that Rafael Trujillo’s benignant disposition may be little more than a facade use to dissuade public accusations of cruelty. A subtle difference between the film and the movie involves the imprisonment of Enrique Mirabal.
He subsequently wins the game for his army drawing the ire of Bonzo for his disobedience to orders. Punishing Ender for taking the initiative further adds to the contrast between the two. Ender is traded to another army shortly after. In his new army, ender trains new recruits to fight in zero gravity, and takes self-defense classes to better protect him. Ender is constantly seeking self-improvement and strives to improve the skills of others.
Suddenly, inescapably, the responsibility for alleviating her misery became hers: she had to make a choice. "But I love him, doctor." The triumph of the doctrine of the sovereignty of sentiment over sense would have delighted the Romantics, no doubt, but it has promoted an unconscionable amount of misery. "Your boyfriend is unlikely to change. He strangles you because he enjoys it and gets a feeling of power from doing so.
Also, the teacher wants to tell her to enjoy it on top of to believe it. The speaker further states, “That changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one.” The word choice of the speaker shows that he is a decent man with good thoughts to help his student. He tried his best to help Lilly when her classmates are making funs of her. He even named the poem “Like Lilly Like Wilson”. It seems like he did it on purpose so he can tell the story behind the title and show why he named the title this way.
When Sam got into certain situations he remembered what Reggie taught him while taking Kung-Fu lessons, Sam was taught how to mediate. Mediation was very helpful when things are not going right in your life you can clear all the negativity out of your mind and concentrate better on how to reach your goal which is what Sam did. Sam states, “But Carla could be tough, and she wasn’t the least bit intimidated by three teenage boys who sometimes resented being pushed so hard”(124). It’s very important for young kids to have positive influences in their life, because they can sometimes drift off into the bad elements of life with the existence of peer pressure its very easy, but when mentors are in place its easier for the kids to get back on track, because the seed has been planted. Having mentors in Sam’s life helped reinforced what he had realized, he didn’t want to be a statistic in
Bullying, however, is an important factor that forces many children to exceed their expectations because they “[have] no choice but to persevere and to succeed” (“Love Letter To My Bully”). Colonel Graff, a teacher at Battle School, has used this principle on a young Ender Wiggin, to make him one of the best child soldiers that mankind has ever had. He “isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove...that he was far better than everyone
The teachers that have Crabbe in their class rooms are tough on him because they are preparing him for his adult life which is much different than his adolescent life. Crabbe’s teachers may be strict upon him but they are giving him helpful advice so he does not mess up his life and regret it later on. For example, Crabbe’s gym teacher Grant catches Crabbe having alcohol on him; he has a little talk with him and turns him into the principal. Crabbe is disgusted by Grant’s actions but really Grant is just trying to help Crabbe with his problem. No teenager should be drinking alcohol; Grant does not want Crabbe to get addicted with the alcohol so he tries to put a stop at it.
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.