Ender's Game

There are a lot of internal and external conflicts present throughout this book. I'll try to list as many as I can. Ender's conflict with Bonzo. This one ends with physical violence and Bonzo's...

This quote comes when Ender is speaking to Valentine, his sister, about his experiences in Battle School. Ender has come to undersand himself better, and knows that he is capable of extraordinary...

By beating the giant, Ender has gained access into fairyland, which he begins to explore in Chapter Seven of this great novel. He goes around the back fo the giant's corpse and follows the brook...

In Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card certainly used very direct, literal language to express the story and its themes. However, we can find a few literary devices, including a couple of metaphors.One...

There is no doubt that Ender is an extremely intelligent character. His intelligence and emotional stability is what got him to Battle School in the first place. What is great about Ender is that...

Peter plans to have Valentine ask their father to get him citizen's access to the nets, instead of student access. By spreading his ideas on the nets, Peter wants to establish a kind of Pax...

Ender is not like Valentine and he is not like Peter. Ender, or Andrew, is a combination of both. Valentine is a compassionate person. She will defend her little brother if necessary, but she...

As the end of Chapter Nine explores, the scene where Ender kills the snake and then sees Peter's bloody reflection in the mirror that he gazes into suggests strongly that Ender has the potential to...

Ender is an outlier of his surroundings throughout the novel. When readers are introduced to him, we are quickly told that he is the third child in the family. That's not normal. He remains an...

I believe that this question is asking about events that occur near the story's conclusion. Ender has defeated the Buggers, and he is hailed a hero and savior of the human species. Ender believes...

From watching Bonzo Madrid, Ender learns both from what Bonzo lacks and what he does well. Bonzo's skill is in organization and discipline. When he becomes a commander, Ender incorporates an...

The family moves to North Carolina for the good of Valentine and Ender's brother Peter. This is stated plainly in Chapter 9: Valentine knew why they had moved here. It was for Peter, so that...

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 11, which records the battle that Dragon Army fought against Rabbit Army and the defeat that Rabbit Army suffered. When Ender and his troops go...

The thing the kids at Battle School have largely forgotten is that they are in training for a real war. So many of them are so wrapped up in the "games" and battles against other armies, that they...

This quote comes from Chapter 13, and refers directly to Valentine. At this point in the story, she and Peter have gained such a large following on the "nets" as Locke and Demosthenes, that even...

One way to look at Ender's relationships in the book is from the perspective of need. Does Ender need this character, or does this character need Ender? Do they need each other? Ender and Peter are...

It is important to keep in mind that an allusionis a reference in literature to something that is well known from other literature, science, history, or pop culture. In chapter 9 of Ender's Game,...

Valentine is upset when her father starts reading and agreeing with Demosthenes because Valentine "didn't like some of the positions Peter made Demosthenes take" (136). Demosthenes is described as...

The adults could be viewed as the enemy in this book for a few reasons, but I think the adults should be viewed as the enemy for one main reason above all other reasons. The adults are the enemy...

Ender's Game is full of interesting quotes that speak to the themes of the entire work, and indeed the entire series as a whole. One of the best comes early in the book, when Ender is asked why he...

At Battle School, Ender plays an open-ended adventure game that seems to have no clear point/ultimate goal. Ender is often frustrated by the game, and finds himself stuck at a particular point. He...

I do not recall any physical description of Peter. We have to visualize his appearance as best we can. But there is certainly description of Peter's actions, and that tells us a great deal about...

Ender learns a lot of important lessons from his battle with Rabbit Army. Some of them are small lessons, but none of them are unimportant to Ender. That's what makes Ender so dangerous. He can...

There are actually three “worlds” in this novel: first, the domestic “dystopia” in which family size is limited, social pressure is applied to “Thirds”, family members are alienated from each...

The battle room is a zero-gravity space where the boys of the Battle School can safely conduct their mock combat. To fight, the boys wear suits similar to space suits and carry "guns" that are...

The answer to this question is exactly as straightforward as it is for some other stories. In general, the narration stays firmly in the third person. I'd like to say that the narration is 100%...

Ender’s Game is primarily a coming-of-age story in which the protagonist develops as he works through a series of challenges. Although Ender is still a child when the novel ends, his maturity is...

Early in the book, when Ender is loading into the launch with the other boys, he realizes that a lot of the surfaces around him are covered in carpet. This causes Ender to start thinking of the...

Up until this point in the story, in Battle School, Ender has been the primary target of bullies, just like he was at home. Bernard is the ringleader of the bullies in Ender's launch group, and...

There are a lot of lies in the book Ender's Game. Many characters lie to Ender for a variety of reasons, but the character that probably lies the most is Colonel Graff. Colonel Graff does...

Orson Scott Card is not averse to dropping symbolism in his books. Ender's Game is loaded with symbolism, and the part that this question asks about is no exception. Ender is playing the game with...

In the full context of the novel, I think it is arguable that the main characters are realistic. First, when the children in Ender's launch group gather to leave Earth, they tend to do exactly...

Chapters 6–12 in Ender’s Game follow Ender’s time being transferred between armies and being unwanted by those around him. Initially placed in Bonzo Madrid’s army, he is relegated to the back of...

As previous posters have stated, "Salaam" basically means peace be with you in Arabic. It is most often spoken by Muslim cultures. Certainly the significance of this scene is the seal of a...

The sequence that the question is asking about appears at the end of chapter 6. Ender is playing the game, and he is genuinely sick of the game. He fully believes that the game is rigged to make...

It is an interesting question to ask whether or not Ender is a hero or not. I mean he did annihilate an entire intelligent species from the universe (except one). Additionally, Ender discovers that...

Ender is disturbed by the lower gravity, the downward slope of all the rooms and halls, and the tunnel-like feeling of Eros. Everyone lives underground because the surface is devoted to collecting...

"I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. So, Ender, I hope you do...

There are many aspects to the larger society found in Ender’s Game that strike us as unpleasant, bizarre, or even horrifying. However, not all of these can be considered “dystopian,” that is,...

When Ender first sees the the brilliant, undersized youngster Bean included in his army, he treats him very much like Graff treats Ender. He tells the other soldiers that Bean is the only...

Orson Scott Card's novel, Ender's Game, is one of my favorite books to give to students. Ender, a young boy who leaves his family to join the group on another planet, becomes the leader of the...

Toward the end of the book, Ender is moved out of Battle School for his final "training." Mazer informs Ender that instead of toon leaders Ender will now be working with squadron leaders. As you...

In the futuristic society that Ender lives in, couples are only really allowed to have two children, and to have a third is against the rules. If you are a "third" child, then you are looked down...

Ender's Game has many significant, major events that pinpoint the twists and turns of the story, including many that happen without Ender knowing about them, at least for a while. For example, the...

The enemy's gate is "down." This of course refers to the Battle Room at Battle School and a tactical approach to re-orienting all soldiers so they have a common goal and a common sense of...

This novel is a Bildungsroman, meaning it tells the story of a child growing up into an adult. We meet Ender first as the youngest child in the Wiggin family, with a bullying older brother, Peter,...

The answer to this question can be found near the start of Chapter 15. As with many chapters in this book, it starts with adults talking. Chapter 15 begins with Anderson and Graff discussing the...

When Ender and the other new children arrive, they are placed in a bunkroom for initial training; they will not be assigned to an army until training is over. Because Ender broke another child's...

Jimmy, their personalities are not very much alike. One main personality trait that all three of these characters have in common is a great sense of competition. They also are all three very...

This answer somewhat depends on which birthday it is asking about. In general, not much is done for Ender's birthday, because he is in Battle School. We are told that Ender figured out how to...