Ender's Game

     I read the book Ender’s Game for the blogpost, and I really enjoyed it. This book has a lot of writing that shows the change of the main character. This book was really fun to read and was great because of how it showed character change in the novel. Not only did the book show how Ender, the main character, change because of his surroundings, it also talks about how the higher-ups were able to manipulate Ender into becoming what he is.

In the book, the world was just attacked by aliens called buggers, and a man named Mazer Rackham fought them off. Ever since, the world has been preparing to fight against the buggers, taking children to space to train them to learn how to fight at a very young age. Ender is chosen because his brother, Peter, was an extremely smart and talented person, but he was too violent and got sent back to earth. The people in charge looked for a new person and found Ender, Peter’s brother.

After Ender joins the military program, the higher-ups notice that he is extremely smart and can finish lots of puzzles with way less time than anyone. He also is extremely skilled in almost everything they throw at him, and after a couple of years, he gets on the leaderboards. The higher-ups then restrict him from many of his friends, and throw him into a new, harsher environment, and he learns faster and is more cunning.

This causes him to change, and become more and more like Peter, which he hates. You can see in the writing about how he changed and how he was manipulated by Colonel Graff. 

This book does a great job on showing subtly how the entire personality of someone changed over many years.

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  1. Priya HDecember 18, 2020 at 2:42 PM

    Wow, this book sounds really interesting! The world that it is set in sounds really cool, the aliens having taken over the planet. I think it would be interesting to read about Ender and seeing how his morals shift as he becomes more like the person he despises. I will definitely check this out!

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