Ender
"'With Ender, we have to strike a delicate balance. Isolate him enough that he remains creative- otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him. At the same time, we need to make sure he keeps a strong ability to lead'" (Card 27) It's hard to believe that the person they were talking about was only six years old at the time, and was expected to save the world in the years to come. In Ender's Game a novel written by Orson Scott Card, Ender literally has the weight of the world on his shoulders. In this novel the main character Ender Wiggins decides to go to Battle School to prepare for war, but soon regrets his decision. In Battle School he goes through physical as well as emotional pain. He graduates before any other student and starts commander school about six years before he is supposed to. During his training in command school he finds out that all the tests he that he thought to had been taking was really the war itself. He really had been sent soldiers to carry out orders, not just pretending. After the war is over some humans decide to go out to the alien's planets and start a new life there, and Ender was one of those people who decided to go. The characteristics that make Ender such a superb
Obviously, Ender's stern decision making is not only a great characteristic to have but it also helps the army and all of the individuals in that army. It made him a better soldier than he would ever have been otherwise. He began the program as a six-year-old boy and saved the world as a ten-year-old man. ' 'It stopped being a game when they threw away the rules. Some people have no clue, what is happening around them. And even though he knew what Bean would go through by isolating him, he made the decision in the best interest of the individual and the over all army. "It was the teachers who had done it. But this time it will be my body that breaks, unless I can break him first"(Card 209) Ender understood that all the odds were against him, and that if he let the fight play its self out for a while he would be dead. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. So he decides to make his own gang to go against Bernard's thrive for power over everyone. Ender understands that he can't just sit and let Bernard rule over everyone, Ender has to do something.
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