In the book Ender’s Game, children who look promising are taken from their homes and placed in Battle School. There they learn how to fight in space, in order to be ready to possibly fight the buggers. But while the kids are at the Battle School they are not treated well. In a sense the teachers brain wash them. I say ‘in a sense’ because they didn’t completely brain wash them. But rather the teachers isolated them from the outside world, in hope that they will only remember their life at the Battle School. They used manipulation to achieve what they wanted: an army/person (chosen one) to defeat the buggers.
This relates to a current situation that is going on in the world today. That situation is child soldiers. Guerillas kidnap children from their homes and brain wash them into the point where killing is just normal for the kids. The kids at the Battle school were forced to learn how to fight, just like the child soldiers are taught how to kill. Both the teachers and guerillas manipulated these kids into doing what they wanted them to do. Sadly, child soldiers are taught to destroy human life, not buggers.
What happened in Ender’s Game is not just a story that Orson Card came up with, it is actually happening in reality.
1 comment:
ah...now i know the shifting end of the book... ํํํ..;
anyways nice analysis made the book look interesting and fun
i didn't read the book (b/c 2 long)
but i think i get the story
good job
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