Humanity In Ender's Game
In the book, Ender's Game, a science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, the protagonist, Ender Wiggin displays intelligence and mercy which enables him to better understand his enemy and demonstrate the concept that we are all human. Ender is the youngest child of the Wiggin family, however, he is also a Third. This means that he was born to be used by the government. As a Third, Ender is merely seen as a project rather than a brilliant and talented child. In this scene, Ender is telling Valentine, his sister, about his relationship with his enemies, he confides " - when he truly understand [his] enemy, understand them well enough to defeat them, then in that very moment [he] also love[s] them. [he] think[s] it’s impossible to really understand somebody... And then, in that very moment when [he]
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Each night progressively gets worse since" the dream[s] [always] [end] with a mirror or a pool of water or the metal surface of a ship, something that would reflect his face back to him. At first, it was always Peter’s face... After a while, though, it began to be his own face, old and sad, with eyes that grieved for a billion, billion murders –but they were his own eyes..." (Card 301). Similar to how Ender feels about his enemies, he also understood the buggers and even develops feelings for them too. However, when he truly understood their motives and their meaning for life; he destroyed them completely. Children are created to be just as real human beings as adults, even as the children are robbed of their youth. Ender demonstrates that to be human is to have compassion which is the ability to feel for others is the mark of humanity. It is mercy and compassion that saved Ender from insanity. It is the buggers who suggest to Ender that if things had gone differently both races could have celebrated each other's
Each night progressively gets worse since" the dream[s] [always] [end] with a mirror or a pool of water or the metal surface of a ship, something that would reflect his face back to him. At first, it was always Peter’s face... After a while, though, it began to be his own face, old and sad, with eyes that grieved for a billion, billion murders –but they were his own eyes..." (Card 301). Similar to how Ender feels about his enemies, he also understood the buggers and even develops feelings for them too. However, when he truly understood their motives and their meaning for life; he destroyed them completely. Children are created to be just as real human beings as adults, even as the children are robbed of their youth. Ender demonstrates that to be human is to have compassion which is the ability to feel for others is the mark of humanity. It is mercy and compassion that saved Ender from insanity. It is the buggers who suggest to Ender that if things had gone differently both races could have celebrated each other's