Enders Game

Enders Game

The making of a leader.

“Enders Game” is written by Orson Scott Card.
Enders Game is a book that takes place in the future the basic idea of the book is: Buggers attack earth before Enders time but are repelled by war hero Mazzer Rackham. Now years later the government monitors all children to find the perfect soldiers. Ender is selected to go to a training camp in space .He quickly learns the ropes and excelled in all his classes, The station has war games in which two armies that have commanders, lieutenants , and squad leaders to face off against each other. Ender quickly becomes the best soldier there and is promoted to commander and is given and army 5 at the age of 9 - 5 years earlier then all the other commanders. He trains his army so well that its unbeatable . He is sent to a space station light years away to further his training .He is taught by Mazzer himself . Ender is put into simulations in which he controls a fleet of star ships and he is a commander .All his lieutenants from his army at the training camp are also lieutenants in this simulation .He beats all the simulations. On the last simulation he is put up on an attack against the bugger home world . But the whole time he was actually controlling a real fleet and he just killed all the buggers. After him and Valentine go to colonize the bugger plant believe that Valentine, Colonel Graff, and Bean are the most significant characters to Ender.

Ender's older sister is the only person in the world who truly loves him. She protects him from Peter, their older brother who acts as a sadist because all he ever wants to do is hurt and manipulate people. Valentine also writes a letter to Ender at one point that helps him get control of himself. At the end of the book, Valentine convinces Ender to go with her to colonize the bugger world.(Buggers are the alien race) . Later Ender travels with her as he searches for a new world for the buggers . She is one of the vital characters to his...

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