The Role Of A Hero In Ender's Game
Throughout all of Ender’s Game the main protagonist, Ender is set up to become the hero that saves the human race from the evil buggers. Enders ends up annihilating the entire bugger race and becomes a hero on earth for his actions. The debate whether Ender should be considers a hero or a mass killer is for his actions are fierce and passionate between readers. I believed that Ender should not be portrayed as a hero for the actions he did, considering he did not attempt to understand the buggers or communicate with them before he destroyed them. If the final chapter of Ender’s Game, Speaker For The Dead, was not added to the book then Ender would have been considered a hero because humans did not understand the buggers intentions. During