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Ender’s Game: A Simulation to Justify All Means

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Ender’s Game: A Simulation to Justify All Means Ender's Game is author Orson Scott Card's best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary, the plot of the novel is a story about a young child, Ender Wiggin, taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the …show more content…

It is visible in the discourse about being a “third child” (Card 2) in the novel’s setting and context. Card states that in this futuristic world, with the threat of extinction from an alien race, the governments around the globe have united together in peace in order to combat their unified foe. Together they make the International Fleet; “the façade of peace and cooperation had been undisturbed almost since the bugger wars began” (Card 126). Because this global cooperation is taking place it has led all of humankind to be subject to saving humanity at any and all costs. One cost is every nation participating in the “Noncomplying Families Act” (Card 22) that limits parent’s ability to have more than two children. The I.F. can decide if the genes from any set of parents are desirable or not to produce child geniuses that they can take, if needed, to combat school and later command school to potentially save the human race against the next bugger attack. The I.F. has the power to order parents to have another child past the two allowed if the parents genes are producing brilliant offspring and the I.F. did not except the first two children into their training programs. Having a third child might be the right combination of genes to produce a brilliant leader. Ender is a third child in the novel. The children are judged and chosen from monitoring them very closely. Each child has a monitoring chip on the back of their neck that allows the I.F. to watch and hear

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