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By:

Katherine Stewart & Giselle Ulep

The sci-fi novel “Ender's Game” by Orson Scott card takes place far into the future. In the beginning,

the story takes place in a lab where Ender is studied with his monitor. Ender also attends a futuristic, computerized school

where he is often teased/ bullied for being special. They have a bus

station where they wait long periods of time for the buses. This is where Ender cries because he's different. In Ender's home, another

setting, he and his brother Peter play a game called Buggers and Astronauts, where Ender always has to wear a Bugger mask and

gets beat up by peter the astronaut in there room, while

their parents are out.

Ex. 1 “ I don't want to go,” said Ender, “but I will.” Graff nodded. “You can change your mind. Up until the time you get in my car with me, you can change your mind. After that, you stay at the pleasure of the International Fleet. Do you understand that?” Ender nodded. “All right. Let's go tell them.” Mother cried. Farther held Ender tight. Peter shook his hand and said, “You lucky little pinheaded fart-eater.” Valentine kissed him and left her tears on his cheek. There was nothing to pack. No belongings to take. “the school provides everything you need, from uniforms to school supplies. And as for toys__there’s only one game.” “Good-bye,” Ender said to his family. He reached up and took Colonel Graff’s hand and walked out the door with him. “Kill some buggers for me!” Peter shouted. “I love you, Andrew!” Mother called. “We’ll write to you!” Father said. And as he got into the car that waited silently in the corridor, he heard Valentine’s anguished cry. “Come back to me! I love you forever!” pg. 26 The mood for this example is sad, because Ender is leaving his family at the age of six to go of to Battle school, not to return until he is ten years old.

•Ex. 2 “Marching constantly around every boy’s desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT – BERNARD “I didn’t write that message!” Bernard shouted. After the shouting had been going on for some time, Dap appeared at the door. “What’s the fuss?” he asked. “Somebody’s been writing messages using my name.” Bernard was sullen. “What message?” “It doesn’t matter what message!” “It does to me.” Dap picked up the nearest desk, which happened to belong to the boy who bunked above Ender. Dap read it, smiled very slightly, gave back the desk. “Interesting,” he said. Yes, Ender thought. The system was to easily broken. They mean us to break it, or sections of it. They know it was me. “Well, who, then?” Bernard shouted. “Are you shouting at me, soldier?” asked Dap, very softly. At once the mood in the room changed. From rage on the part of Bernard’s closest friends and barely contained mirth among the rest, all became somber. Authority was about to speak. “No sir,” said Bernard “Everybody knows that the system automatically puts on the name of the sender.” “I didn’t write that!” Bernard said. “Shouting?” asked Dap. “Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD.” Bernard said. “Really?” said Dap. “I didn’t know he was signed onto the system.” Dap turned and left, and the whole room filled with laughter.” Pg.51-52

The mood for this example is Humorous, because Ender has found a way to break into the school system and create a fake account using Bernard’s name but with a fake last name. But the system doesn’t put the last name on when you send a message so Ender is getting away with sending funny messages about Bernard using Bernard’s name, and making Bernard look bad in a funny way that isn’t funny to the real Bernard.

Ex. 3 “But Valentine knew. She had seen a squirrel half-skinned, spiked by its little hands and feet with twigs pushed into the dirt. She pictured Peter trapping it, staking it, then carefully parting and peeling back the skin without breaking into the abdomen, watching the muscles twist and ripple. How long had it taken the squirrel to die? And all the while Peter had sat nearby, leaning against the tree where perhaps the squirrel had nested, playing with his desk while the squirrel’s life seeped away.”

The mood for this example is anger, because Peter is killing cute little forest creatures, but the worst part is his method of killing the squirrels. Half skinned and left to die a probably a slow painful death on a twig. And he just sits around peacefully by a tree! He could at least use a stuff animal instead or go by a simulator of a squirrel. Also he cloud try and eat the squirrel instead of letting its body go to waste, but I guess a hungry wild animal would come by and eat the skinned treat.

 

Ender Wiggin is the main character in Ender’s Game. He starts as a six-year-old genetically engineered genius. He is constantly monitored by the government with the monitor in the back of his neck. Ender eventually gets it taken off and is shipped off the Battle School. He is smart and brave and loves to play “games”. He eventually stops the bugger war with the help of his friends. He is a hero. He is a protagonist, but thinks he is an antagonist because he is a hard-core killer. He even killed an entire race of people─ the buggers. Ender is a person with amazing capabilities. He is scared of himself. Later, he finds the cocoon of the hive-queen of the buggers and helps her communicate for the rest of her dead people. Ender is a dynamic character because he is always in action and coming up with new things. Ender starts as 6, but in the end of the book, he is at least twenty. Ender is quite extraordinary.

Ender is a young boy who is genetically engineered with special abilities. He is the world’s last hope to stop the bugger wars. He becomes the world’s most successful military general the world has ever known.

haracters

haractersValentine is Ender's loving sister and his only true friend before he is shipped off to battle school. She is kind and compassionate, but can also be skeptical when she wants to be. She is extremely smart, like Ender and Peter. At the beginning of the book, she is a minor character because she is left behind when Ender leaves, but it soon befriending Peter and helping him write articles on the net to become famous. She is, at first, a protagonist because she is friends with Ender and helps him when Peter is being cruel to him. Later, she is no longer as attached to Ender and is neither working with him or against him. Valentine starts as a static character, but the way she is working with Peter to write articles may make her amount to something. She starts in the story at age eight, but by chapter 9 is almost eleven.

This is what I think Valentine would look like, though her image would change due to age through out the book.

haractersPeter is Ender's cruel brother who liked to bully Ender before Ender left. Peter also was tested with a monitor when he was young, but he got his taken off when he was three. He can be cruel and jealous of Ender, but deep, deep down, he is a complicated person who just wants to make things right for himself. He used to be bluntly mean to people, but later, he becomes smart enough to act like a sweet, generous person to manipulate others to his will. He is also much brighter than any other boy his age. Peter has an idea to become famous. He convinces his sister to help him write political articles on the internet to gain people's respect. Peter can be both a protagonist and an antagonist because he tries to beat up and Ender and hurts him, but he also is trying to take down the supposedly evil government with his articles and thereby helping Ender. Peter, like Valentine, starts as a static character because he is left behind. However, his recent activity could make him a dynamic character if it affects Ender. At the beginning of the story, Peter is eight. Later, at chapter 9 he is 12.

Peter Wiggin has an evil aura over him that his siblings are ashamed to imitate. His facial expression is always conniving and intricate.

haractersColonel Graff is an important person in the Battle School that Ender is accepted to. He is a tough man when it comes to teaching soldiers, but a gentle friend when he wants to be. So far, he is a minor character that is testing Ender as he grows in battle school. I think he is a protagonist because he has helped Ender try to fit in. However, as explained by Dink later in the story, the teachers are supposedly the real enemies in the story, so Graff could an Antagonist. He doesn’t have too much motion, so he is a static character. He just sits back and watches as the story unfolds and he adds helpful words to move things along. We do not know his exact age, but we are guessing he is in his mid-to-late thirties.

This is what Graff would look like as he trains the soldiers.

haractersDink Meeker is Ender's friend from battle school. He

helps Ender discover that the other armies Ender is fighting are not the real enemies The teachers are. He explains to him that he thinks that the bugger war isn't even real. They just use that as an excuse to keep the I.F. government in control. Dink also helps Ender learn and about different battle tactics and how to control and army. When Bonzo tries to kill Ender, Dink tries to save Ender. Dink is a strong friend who knows more that the average soldier should. Ender first meets Dink when he is about 12, but later, he is about 14. He is a protagonist because he is help Ender fight his war. Dink as a dynamic character when he is helping Ender, but we don't see him again when Ender is shipped off to Command school.

Dink is younger than he looks in the picture, but he is older and more Experienced than Ender. Dink is a good ally to have in a war.

PlotRising Action: Action happening in the story leading up the climax.

In Ender's Game, the Rising Action is when Ender is at school on Earth. He is being teased by a boy named Stilson. Ender is a little angry, but can shrug off most insults. Stilson and his friends corner him at the bus stop and start taunting him and pushing Ender around. Ender can't take the teasing anymore and punches Stilson in the face and makes his bones break. Stilson actually dies here, but Ender doesn't know. Ender always wins, thoroughly. People are watching him with cameras and decide he's ready for Battle School. This paves his path to leadership. After Ender is accepted to Battle School, he is confronted with another person who wants to bully him. Ender doesn't really hurt him bad, but he accidentally breaks the other kid's arm. This establishes Ender to stick out and have no one be his friend. Later, Ender quickly moves up though the armies and gains new friends.

Rising Action

PlotConflictMan vs. Society: when the main character(s) are put against a society.

In Ender's Game the main conflict was man vs. society. Ender's destiny was to destroy the buggers. He has the fight them and spent most of his life preparing to battle them. Eventually, he destroyed them. The buggers kept killing humans and were trying to inhabit their planet..Man vs. Self: The main character(s) is having a battle with him/herself.Ender is under the constant pain of knowing he is a killer. He kills most threatening enemies he comes across and hates himself for it. When he kills all of those pilots and buggers, he is at war with himself.

PlotClimaxClimax: Turning point of the story

I think that the Climax of Ender's Games is when Ender leaves Battle School for Command school. Ender has a new teacher, Mazer Rackham, the legendary fighter. Ender trains with his friends for the bugger wars. Ender becomes a great Commander and teacher. As it turns out, the "stimulation" game used in training was actually real battle of the bugger wars and Ender led them to victory. Ender was upset that even though they won, he had killed a bunch of pilots in the process. He had also wiped out an entire race.

PlotFalling ActionFalling Action: Action

descending fro the climax to the resolution.

After the buggers are wiped out, Ender never returns to Earth. He travels in a colony ship with his sister Valentine. The trip takes fifty years, but only two for them using the power of relativity. The ship goes to populated a dead bugger planet. Ender makes a new friend Abra, and finds a place that the buggers created for him. It is the fantasy game's giant's corpse place. Behind the mirror, Ender finds a cocoon of a hive-queen and he interoperates her story for the world. The world now understands how the buggers lived what they wanted.

PlotFalling ActionResolution: How the story ends.

Ender's Game ends with Ender searching for a place for the hive-queen to thrive in peace. Valentine has published an entire history series of the bugger wars. including Ender's story. Peter, back on Earth is the Hegemon, the ruler. It is fifty years later on Earth and Peter is in his eighties and dying. He and Ender talk on the nets for days before he dies. Ender is just in his Early twenties. All of Ender's friends are on Earth in their twenties willing to fight for him. Ender spends many years in exile.

Theme and Resolution

Ender’s Game has many themes and morals. One of them is, be loyal to your friends no matter what. Ender had many friends and loved ones that were loyal to him throughout the entire story. Even though Ender was gone for several years, Valentine still celebrated his birthday. This shows how much she still loves him. Dink and Petra were Ender’s friends in battle school. When they were separated into different armies as commanders, they didn’t get angry when Ender beat them. They even helped him when he needed it. Together, all of Ender’s friends stopped the bugger wars. Another moral of this story is, there is no winning without sacrifice. Ender had sacrificed hundreds of pilots to win the bugger wars without even knowing it. “‘I was ordering pilots to go in and die without even knowing it.’[Ender said.] ‘They knew it, Ender, and they went anyway. They knew what it was for.’[said Graff.] ‘You never asked me! You never told me the truth about anything!’ ‘You had to be a weapon Ender…’ (Card pg. 209)”. This quote shows they even had to trick Ender to get the job done. The story resolves with Ender being a speaker for the dead bugger hive-queen. The humans learned about the bugger race. Valentine is a published author of the history of the bugger wars. Valentine, Ender, and his friends are all in their twenties. His friends are living on Earth. Ender and Valentine are living on an uninhabited bugger planet. The trip there took fifty years, but by the power of relativity it only took them two. On Earth, however, Peter never left, so he is in his eighties and has heart failure. He is Hegemon, ruler of the Earth. He and Ender have a long talk on the nets before he slips away.