Ender's Game

For my book assignment, I read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The plot of this book is really interesting to me. In the book, the government selects Andrew “Ender” Wiggin for training at a elite battle school. Ender eventually accepts the offer, and leaves his family a very young age. At the school, Ender is arguably the smartest person of all other new attendees. This causes him to be constantly isolated by the other kids. Even so, he improves rapidly and becomes rather popular through out the school. During all this, his two siblings Valentine and Peter are up to something of their own. They form an uneasy alliance and create fake identities that allow them to publicly speak of government and politics. Peter, who is the main player of the two, plans to drive the globe into chaos, allowing him to take control. Valentine, who deeply cares for Ender unlike Peter, is very reluctant to follow Peter, but is eventually convinced of Peter’s wants to make the world a better place. As time goes on, Ender eventually became a commander of his own army of students, and does unexpectedly well. Ender’s new army causes commotion within the school, due to his unheard of strategies and tactics. This is as far as I’ve gotten in the story, but I plan on finishing the story later.
In the book, there are three main characters, Ender and his two siblings, Valentine and Peter. Ender is the main character and protagonist of the story. Ender cares deeply for his sister Valentine, but greatly loathes his brother Peter. His has the compassion of his sister, and the ruthlessness of his brother. Ender greatly detests the negative parts of his personality. He always tries to subdue that side of his personality and tries to use his positive site more. He is always put into situations were his negative side emerges, but tries his best to not use violence. An example of this is when he beats another child to death, but only did it because he had to. When he learned that he did this, he hated himself for this.
Valentine cares, through out the story, does everything in her power to protect Ender from Peter’s sadistic tortures. She has the same compassion of Ender, but doesn’t have the ruthlessness of Peter. Because I haven’t read the whole book and valentine hasn’t been fully introduced, I don’t know that much about her. She is currently being introduced and I’m learning a few things about her. For example, there is a part of her that likes manipulating and controlling people.
Peter, the older of the three, is devoid of compassion and only has ruthlessness in its place. He is very sadistic to his other siblings, and at some points it’s unclear if he is going to kill Valentine and Ender. He is the mastermind of his and Valentine’s political endeavors. Again, as he hasn’t been fully introduced, I don’t know much about him.
The themes I can see at this point are symbols of the games. Ender hypothesizes that the games have deeper meanings throughout the book. He constantly tries to say away from the teacher’s manipulations. But even though he tried, he actually played right into their hands. This is also the main conflict in the story for Ender.
Well, until I finish the book, I won’t be able to talk about the whole book. So I might come back and edit this once I finish the book. Good bye everyone.