The science fiction novel, Ender’s Game, is about a futuristic society where Earth fights wars with alien planets. The main character, Ender, was only permitted to be born because he has the potential to be a military genius. His older sister was too nice, and his older brother was too mean, the government expected Ender to be the perfect balance. As soon as he turns six and his monitor was removed, Ender was shipped off to battle school to become a commander. During battle school, he starts in the lowest class, launchies or people that just came to battle school, and gets drafted to a practice army. During his time at battle school, he works his way up the ranks all the way to commander of his own practice army.
I think the authors purpose in writing this book is to show how affective good leadership skills and smarts is for leading a group. In Ender’s Game, Ender is given an army of very unskilled students - most of them were launchies. The principals of the school don’t even allow him to trade away players that he doesn't get along with.
“Almost thirty of his soldiers were new, straight out of their launch group, completly inexperienced in battle. Some were even underage, the ones... were pathetically small. Ender reminded himself that that’s how he must have looked to Bonzo Madrid when he first arrived.”
Even though almost all of his army is small and young, Ender can still understand how they feel because he was in the same situation. This is a very important quality for a leader to have, especially in Ender’s situation. He strives to be different from Bonzo Madrid because he was such a tyrant of a leader.
The principals of the school make it very unfair because Ender cant perform trades to get rid of weaker players that are unable to listen. Ender can easily overcome this obstacle by getting along with everybody and using good management skills. I think this is a way of showing the principals that they cant do anything to make Ender fail.
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