Ender's Game is a science fiction novel that is a story about Ender Wiggin. This book's setting is in the future on Earth. Earth has been attacked twice by an alien called Buggers, so people start training genius kids to command an army to defend Earth. Ender gets chosen when he is six and he goes to Battle School. In Battle School, Ender is the top student and makes others kids his enemy because they are jealous. to be trained. Soon he will be able to command Earth's fleet.
I think the author's purpose in writing this book is to let adults know that kids can do anything. That they are no different from adults and some can be commanders. Kids emotions and thoughts are just as similar as adults. In every day life, children are not taken seriously and the author wanted to tell adults that they should be. In Ender;s game, Ender manipulates older kids and adults around him, and Earth is counting on Ender for it's survival. The author is trying to portray that kids can be like adults and sometimes older people can be like little kids.
Peter, Ender's brother, is also a genius and he lacks compassion and can manipulate people's mind and scared them. Our group, discussed about why Peter did not get chosen to go up to battle school with Ender. Someone said that Peter was too violent, and that he scares the heck out of Ender and he could scared the hell out of other students too. I still wonder, what about Bonezo or Rose de Nose? They are very violent and they do scare the hell out of kids like Ender. Peter threatens to kill Ender and Valentine sometimes. On one part, he takes on politics with Valentine and he tries to become famous and king of the world. He does things for his own benefit and uses his knowledge to seek other's weaknesses and brings it to his advantage. The similarities of Peter and Ender is there struggle for leadership. Peter gets world domination, but Ender gets to lead an army to defend Earth. One day they both get power and the author uses this to tell adults kids are no different from them.
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