Orson Scottt Card’s Ender’s Game Essay, Research Paper

Orson Scottt Card’s Ender’s Game

The book starts off with Ender getting his monitor off. A monitor is

something that they but on the back of these peoples necks to see if they are a

good candidate to be a general to fight the buggers. The buggers are aliens.

Well, since he is not monitored anymore people who have always wanted to fight

him can now fight them. He ends up winning all of the fights and he goes home.

As it turns out taking off his monitor was a test to see how he would handle

people that fight him. A general then explains that he want to send Ender to

battle school so he can learn how to fight in space. Ender decides to go. When

he gets there he finds out that it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and

breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he

is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer

makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing

things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that

anybody has ever graduated, he’s a genius.) He then goes to command school were

he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and

he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is

his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet and a vast

number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on the planet that

blows it up. When he finishes the battle he realizes that everyone is cheering

behind him. When he asks why they tell him that all of his missions were real

ones against the buggers and that he had just destroyed all of the buggers.

My favorite character in this book is Ender. He is my favorite character

for many reasons. One reason is that he is really smart. He has a photographic

memory and he has a 200 IQ. He also could out smart adults when he was 5.

Another reason why I like him is because he likes to play video games. He says

that they make him even smarter. Another reasons why I like Ender is because he

doesn’t let people take advantage of him.

My least favorite character in this book would have to be Peter Wiggin.

I despise him for a few reasons. First off because he is a jerk. He always beats

up Ender and Valentine. He does this because he always needs to be in control.

Another reason why I don’t like peter is because he is just as smart as Ender

but he uses his smarts for evil purposes. He once skinned a squirrel with out

killing it so he could watch it die. Another reason why I don’t like him is

because even after Ender saves the world he still doesn’t give Ender any respect.

My favorite part in this book is when Ender defeats the buggers. This is

my favorite part for 3 reasons. One, because the buggers have been destroying

mankind since the year 2034. Two, Because they are ruthless killers. Finally

because they have been abducting humans since 1940. They would freeze them in

tubs or cut them open.

My least favorite part in this book is when they take the monitor off

Ender. I dislike this part for a few reasons. First off is because it is a very

painful process. It has been in the back of kids necks since they were 4 and

they are taking it out when they are 6. They end up having to knock him out in

order to remove it. Another reasons is because after he gets the monitor taken

off he gets beet up. Another reasons is because everyone hates Ender because

when they take off your monitor that means you didn’t make it to the battle

school when infact he did make it.

We’ll, I loved this book! I read the whole thing in less than a week.

You should read it, especially if you like vivid descriptions. I got to go. See

you later.

Sincerely,