Enders Game The Universal Truths of Buggers and Astronauts
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game has been hailed as one of thegreatest Science Fiction works of all time, earning among many other honorsthe Nebula Award in 1985, and the Hugo Award in 1986. This best sellerquickly became embraced by readers of all ages and interests, not onlyappealing to the adult science-fiction enthusiasts that Card intended, butalso to children and fans of drama and religious fiction. The widespreadpraise of this book, and later of its sequels, is not surprising to anyindividual who has traveled into the complex world of Battle School and theBugger War. Yet why, one must ask, is Ender's story such an instantclassic among casual readers and academics alike' One of the factorsincluded in Card's brilliant story and character development is that whilethis story takes place in the distant future and in the outer reaches ofspace, every character remains true to human nature and serves as anarchetype to give insight into the human condition in the world that doesexist around us. This remarkable existence that is both fantastical andyet wholly familiar is expressed through the characters of Graf, Petra, and The book of Ender's Game begins as removed an
Petrais a tomboy, because she has to be such in order to express herself and betaken seriously. She falls victim to hubris -- hertragic flaw is simply that she is mortal. Perhaps Graf's behavior can be more easily forgiven because of thegravity of the situation. This is one of the most touching moments in thenovel so far as Petra's character, because it shows that while she has puton a facade of immortality in order to be considered human, yet she remainspainfully human, with human boundaries. Yet we know these charactersare real on another level, that they represent the truths within all of us,for even the far-off Bugger War and the fantastical Battle School aresymbols for things which always have and always will exist in our world. He is a pawn, on a grand scale, while the reader mayhave been so only on a small one. Petra Arkanian is one of the few females at battle school, havingproven herself beyond what the males had to show just to be treated as anequal. We cannot choose thefate of the world, but we can do out best to make what we feel are theright choices using the information that we have available. Yet he too is human, with human fears and emotions. We come to learn that one of these voices belongsto Colonial Hyrum Graf, the director of primary training at theInternational Fleet Battle school. The characters in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game are archetypes. He is a genius, he is a completest. Our lives are run by those who have authorityover us: our parents, our teachers, our politicians. Ender's duality speaks true to us all.
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