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__Ender's Game __

Orson Scott Card: Card was born on August 24, 1951. He was born in Richland, Washington. He was raised in California, Utah and Arizona. He attended college at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. Card has been writing for most of his life. He has written short stories, novels, screenplays and poetry. Card's novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1985 and 1986. He is the only author to win these top prizes in Science Fiction two years in a row (Orson). Card now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child Zena. The environment and scenery of this area influenced the setting of the book, Ender's Game, greatly. He now teaches classes and directs plays. He is a professor at Southern Virginia University (Who is).

Card's __Ender's Game__

This book is set in the future. Aliens, The Buggers, have attacked the world twice and it is now sixty years after the last attack. The human species would have been wiped out during the attacks had it not been for good luck and a space fighter named Mazer Rackham. This man saved the world but now, when the world is on the brink of another attack, he is gone. The only chance the world has of survival lies in the hands of a six year old boy, Ender.  At three years old children with "potential" get a monitor put on the base of there neck. A monitor is a computer that attaches directly into the child's brain, nerve system and mind. Ender was a third child and third children were looked down upon. Most families were only allowed two children but Ender's family was special. Ender's brother, Peter, got a monitor at the age of three but failed the testing within a year because he was too violent. Ender's sister, Valentine, also got a monitor at age three. She lasted about a year and a half and then failed because she was too nice. The government, realizing that these two children were the brightest they had ever seen, told the family to have a third child hoping that the child would be a mix of Valentine's benevolence and Peter's malevolence. Later in the book, Ender said this about his relationship between him and his siblings, "Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between" (Card 236). Ender got his monitor at age three and kept his til age six. If a child makes it three years with the monitor in the day that they get it off is the final test. How the child carries himself and deals with issues on that particular day decides if they will go on to the Battle School. Ender passed and was recruited to go to the school to begin his training.

The government and the generals at battle school knew that Ender would, one day, save the world. They kept him isolated from making friends, made him do tougher challenges, promoted him at a very young age and they gave his personal desk higher security than the other trainees. The general's plan was, "With Ender, we have to strike a delicate balance. Isolate him enough so he remains creative --- otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him" (Card 26). Ender ruined all of there plans because he was actually smarter than the people trying to train him. A student's desk is a computer that they customize for themselves. On Ender's desk he played a game that taught him a lot about himself and his family. It taught him to defy the odds and always come up with a solution.

This book is filled with lessons and morals to live by. A person should never give up no matter how much the odds are stacked against them. When Ender trains the generals give him sub-par weapons and inferior soldiers, but he always came up with a plan and never lost a match. It teaches a person to take what they have and use it for the best of their abilities.  The best lesson of the book is towards the end when Ender comes back to earth for the first time since leaving when he was six. He is so unsocialable and withdrawn that he spends all of his days at a government hideaway. This place is a log cabin, on a lake, surounded by forest. He spends hours on the lake just thinking. Valentine thought this about Ender durin his long stay at the lake, "She could see his reasoning. Or rather, his unreasoning. He could win all he wanted, but he knew in his heart that there was always somone who could destroy him" (Card 241).This is something people sometimes forget to do. Ender thought about how the future battle with the buggers would go and how there always would be someone better than him. Someone or something could always snuff him out. Everyone is always in such a hurry to get things done sometimes they forget to think about what they are doing and how what they do affects themselves and others. Ender symbolizes how stressful life can be if you do not take any breaks.

The most influential and amazing part of the book is what his brother and sister do while he is away. Peter and Valentine, two children managed to do the unthinkable in a crazy way. What they do symbolizes how the lust for power and the brains of a genious can shape the. It shows how one or two people, no matter how small or insignificant they are can changed the world, for better, or for worse.

Thisis a great book and it is very descriptive and it has very clear explanations. The author easily gets his points across and teaches the reader many lessons as they read. It is full of twists and turns and a suprise ending you will never see coming. It is on the Outstanding Books list because it teaches people about real life and how anyone can change the world. It also explains to the reader that you should not have too much trust in too many people for they can and probably will use you. Overall, the Ender's Game is a story about how to life your life and how to life your life to the fullest.

In the book, Ender's Game, Ender played many simulations and videogames to replicate how a battle would be and to train him to fightagainst the Buggers. The game Galaga is how I pictured one of the games had looked. media type="custom" key="3540512" Works Cited: Orson Scott Card. Wikipedia. Mar. 2009. Feb. 13, 2009. []

Who is Orson Scott Card? __The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card__. 2009. Hatrack River Enterprises Inc. Feb. 13, 2009. [].