Ender's Game Sparknotes. Web ender's game is a novel by orson scott card that was first published in 1985. Ender is horrified when he learns that he’s wiped out an entire species.
Ender is afraid of his brother and loves his sister. The children in ender's game, while exceptional, create a community which plays out may of the concerns of the adult world. Ender is a child in name only, and he represents the best that a human being can be, given the context. By making the decision to destroy the bugger planet, ender has won the war. Web full title ender's game. Time and place written begun in 1975 in salt lake city, utah, the story was published in 1977 as a short story and completed in novel form in 1985. Web ender manages to get farther in one of the computer games, called the mind game, than anyone ever had before him, and although he does not know, the military commanders take notice. The younger brother of peter and valentine, at age six ender is chosen by colonel graff and the international fleet to help save mankind from the buggers. Wherever he goes, ender makes things happen, and by age nine he is given his own army to command. Ender is abruptly promoted to salamander army.
Date of first publication 1977 (as a short story); Meanwhile, ender’s sociopathic brother has taken over earth, and ender decides not to return there. Web ender is brilliant enough to understand the manipulation and knows that it is necessary. The game was always real. Ender and his companions may be more intelligent than normal children, but they have all of the same hatreds and jealousies that plague the rest of humanity. Web ender's game suggests that both compassion and ruthlessness are necessary features in a leader, and much of the story is the interaction between these two features of ender's personality. The younger brother of peter and valentine, at age six ender is chosen by colonel graff and the international fleet to help save mankind from the buggers. Web without knowing it, ender has helped eliminate the bugger race. There ender is befriended by petra arkanian, the only girl in the army. The military commanders say that ender had to believe it was a game or else the loss of life would have interfered with his decisions. In the same way that graff manipulates ender, ender manipulates bean while he is commander of dragon army.
