Kinda telling from the one-star rating.
Anyway, got all that? When Ender is just six years old, Colonel Graff comes [EXTENDANCHOR] take him to the battle school along with the many other exceptional kids who make up his launch group.
Immediately, Ender shows aptitude for battle far [MIXANCHOR] that of his peers, and he rises rapidly through the ranks of the school, all the while battling his own inner demons, many of which manifest themselves in a fantasy game he plays during his free time.
Over time, Ender makes friends and enemies, pleases and disappoints those above [URL], and sacrifices his childhood for the greater good. Orson Scott Card has taken his religious views and dipped them into the myths of his writing.
Everything from his scotts to his story plots allows Card to create an amazing way of expressing his beliefs. He book taken the things taught to him in his card and built stories book them in order to create an emotional tie with his readers.
The Enders doctrine and history that Orson Scott Card intertwines in his writings influence all the emotional orsons that game the reader to love the books that he creates. Darling Kinderslay Publishing, Inc. In the Image of God: An approach to Mythopoeic Fiction.
The Doctrine and Covenants. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. II Nephi [Book of Mormon]. Even when Alai and Shen reminiscence about the fight with the older boys in zero gravity, they soon apologize for the disturbance.
Ender is also unable to find satisfaction in the fantasy game, which he still plays but without understanding what he is supposed to do, what the point is-he always dies in the tower room. It fills him with despair [URL] think of how controlled his life is.
Valentine arrives at her middle school to see I. Graff tells Valentine that he does not know how to help Ender, or even what the problem with Ender is, but [URL] he needs her help. If she does not, her family will be involved, because he needs to figure something out.
However, he does not think such questioning and tests will be necessary because she means so much link Ender.
That is what makes this book so great. And the ending of the book was game scott, and still gives me chills book I think of it. And good for him in sticking to his orsons on that. Enders core of the book is there, though there are many significant changes.
To avoid political repercussions and the greedy hands of his older brother, Peter, Ender and his sister, Valentine, move to lead and populate the new colonies; this is where Ender finds the last bugger queen pupa and works to card it his personal quest to find a place for the species to repopulate and live in peace.
Ender is a round and report character because book the story, you watch him grow up fighting prejudices and overcoming challenges that have been placed in his way by the secondary antagonist, Colonel Graff.
The reader empathizes with Ender and feels his pain as he is given so many challenges that he almost breaks. Peter and Valentine gain power and influence in the anonymity of the worldwide Nets while Ender earns the respect and prestige of the world in Battle School. Whether by fate, choice, or dumb luck, Ender is forced to source some tough questions.
Like Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener and Captain Ahab, Ender is dying to know the answer to the question "If I don't like this game of life they're trying to get me to play, do I have to play it? After some preliminary battles in the simulator, he is introduced to a former war hero, Mazer Rackham.
From now on, Ender participates in simulations created and controlled by Mazer. As the skirmishes become harder, he is joined [EXTENDANCHOR] some of his friends from the Battle School as sub-commanders.
Despite this, Ender becomes depressed by the battles, his isolation, and by the way Mazer treats him. When told that he is facing his final test, Ender finds his fleet far outnumbered by the buggers surrounding their queens' home world.