Ender’s Game :: Essays Papers

Enders Game Andrew Wiggin is the main character in the novel, Enders Game. His nickname is Ender. Andrew got his nickname from his old(a)er sister Valentine when he was born because Valentine was ineffective to say the name Andrew, so she called him Ender. It has specific meaning in the leger because of the fact that Ender is expected to be up to(p) to end events that someone else had started in front him. One event that has been started before Ender that he is expected to finish is the war between the humans on the planet, and the alien Buggers. Ender is expected to be able to end this war because his older siblings streaked out impossibly in the governments way of determining aptitude, or ability to become a everyday in the army that is preparing for a fight with the Buggers. Rarely is a third base child born, but in this exceptional case, Ender was permitted to be born because of his siblings test results. As soon as ender is born, a monitor is placed in the base of his neck to analyze his thoughts and senses to determine whether he is Battleschool material or not. Ender eventually goes to Battleschool and takes mass amounts of badgering and teasing from the other kids that are cooking too. Ender easily moves through the ranks and frustrates every instructor that he has. He becomes a commander and is given an army. He eventually goes to a planet called Eros, go on the Buggers, and conclude that they are bugs, and that they have a queen like ants do. Ender finds an old man and finds that it is Mazer Rackham, his enemy. Ender finally finds that all the games he had been playing since Rackham became his enemy, was the real tertiary Invasion. Ender is a hero. Another event that Ender had to finish that had been started before him was his conflict with Stilson on the bus to Battleschool. Stilson and his friends make fun of Ender by calling him a 3rd and they do not let him get to his seat on the bus. Stilson calls Ender labe l and summons his friends to hold Ender back because he had tried to grab Stilsons arm in defense of himself.