Ender's Game

CTQ: Who has "power" in your text? How does that power get shown?

Many characters have power, all different amounts, and in different ways. Some people have power and use it wisely. Some people have power but don't know what to do with it. Some people don't have power but want it just to be "cool".

I believe Ender has a lot of power. He is a successful commander, and has won every battle he has been in: "They won, of course." He won even though Graff had the other team cheat. I don't understand how they cheated, but even with that Ender won. Ender has power over his army. He has trained them, and earned their trust. Whenever he tells them to do something, they do it. Ender seems to have quite bit of power at the battle school.

In  a way, Stilson has some power. He keeps showing up everywhere. At the beginning of the book, before Ender went to battle school, Stilson had power over Ender. Now, somehow, Stilson ended up in battle school with Ender, and keeps on coming back into the storyline to mess with Ender or to remind the readers of him. Stilson might come back and have an important role in the end. Stilson has a different kind of power than Ender, but there is power and revenge in him.

Graff is supposed to have power over the battle school. It is hard to tell that he has any power, to me it looks like he does't have any. He is the person who has power but doesn't use it or does't know what to do with it. He seems to be just a confused guy who doesn't do anything.

More than one person in a book is allowed to have some sort of power. Ender, Stilson and Graff each have some amount of power, each in their own way. Different people have power for their own reason. Everyone has power, but people usually focus on the person who has the most.

Spoiler Alert! ENDER'S GAME

Spoiler Alert!

Even books that have been banned could be good stories. At the moment, I am reading "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Yes, it has some violence, but that doesn't mean there isn't a good plot. Ender is in battle school, he is a commander of his own army (the dragon army). He's one of the best fighters the battle school has.

Ender has mixed feelings. He has a sister (Valentine) and a brother (Peter). He thinks and wants to be more like Valentine, but instead he seems to be a lot like Peter. For example, in the first couple pages Ender fights someone at school and then thinks, "I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter." Ender is more like Peter than he thinks, even though he would like to be more similar to Valentine.

Ender is strangely smart. He has beaten the impossible game. In battle school, instead of computers, they have desks (they do pretty much the same thing). So on this desk there is a game where you have to get past a giant and then you'd get to fairyland. It was made as an impossible game and no one could get past it, and then some 7 year old got past to fairyland: "'Isn't it nice to know that Ender can do the impossible?'….'What matters is that he won the game that couldn't be won'" Ender uses thoughts and feelings to fight smartly, in real life and on his desk.

Ender is a peculiar child in thoughts, feelings, and smartness. He is way ahead of other kids his age.