Ender's Game Book Report Essay
Ender’s Game is a science-fiction novel that follows a child named Ender, and his story on being trained from a early age to be a military captian to fight “buggers” that have been encountered in space by humans while exploring the universe, as he struggles to find logical reasoning as why all of the training is happening to him PLOT
Far into the future, where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly, humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak of war between the two species, and the military starts recruiting kids to be able to train and fight them when they mature. This is where Ender comes in. The book starts off casually explaning the normal life of Ender, mentioning his family life with his brother Peter and sister Valentine, and some of his school life. The story picks up when he gets into a fight with a long time bully of his. Unanounced to him, the fight is actually fatal to the bully. When he explains that he fought now to stop it later, he gets a offer to join Battle School, with the only issue being he has to leave his family behind and go into space.
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He is trained in his new simulator, he is re-introduced to his old group who he fought with in battle school. Eventually as the battles become more difficult, Ender shows signs of deppression by them, the way mazer is treating him and so on. During his final test, ends up dropping a nuculear bomb onto the hive planet of the Buggers. When people are celebrating all around him, he realizes that the new simulator was actually real, and that he was leading real pilots to their deaths. Ender then realizes that he ended the war, and becomes even more depressed due to thinking about the lives that he
Far into the future, where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly, humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak of war between the two species, and the military starts recruiting kids to be able to train and fight them when they mature. This is where Ender comes in. The book starts off casually explaning the normal life of Ender, mentioning his family life with his brother Peter and sister Valentine, and some of his school life. The story picks up when he gets into a fight with a long time bully of his. Unanounced to him, the fight is actually fatal to the bully. When he explains that he fought now to stop it later, he gets a offer to join Battle School, with the only issue being he has to leave his family behind and go into space.
While getting acclimated …show more content…
He is trained in his new simulator, he is re-introduced to his old group who he fought with in battle school. Eventually as the battles become more difficult, Ender shows signs of deppression by them, the way mazer is treating him and so on. During his final test, ends up dropping a nuculear bomb onto the hive planet of the Buggers. When people are celebrating all around him, he realizes that the new simulator was actually real, and that he was leading real pilots to their deaths. Ender then realizes that he ended the war, and becomes even more depressed due to thinking about the lives that he