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A. Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card that won both the 1985 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for best novel.
B. The main character of the book, Ender, is the younger brother of Peter and Valentine. He is afraid of his brother and loves his sister. When he is six years old he is chosen by the IF, or International Fleet, to save mankind from the bugger invasion. Wherever Ender happens to go, big things happen and by nine years old he is ready to command his own army. Ender eventually saves all of mankind from the buggers by destroying them completely. The hero character archetype is after an ultimate goal and encounters obstacles while trying to achieve the goal. They as well are morally good which will be challenged throughout the novel. The hero is also responsible for saving a bunch of people.
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A. Ender was a morally good person because he decided to pick up the bugger cocoon and search for a right place for it to thrive.
B. “And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the world where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace.” (Scott 226) Ender was exploring a bugger world after they had all been wiped out and found a queen bugger cocoon. He decided to carry the cocoon with him until he found a suitable place for it to grow and thrive. This shows he is morally good because after wiping them all out of existence he tries to right his wrongs by trying to find a place for the buggers to grow peacefully.
IV. Ender is the “hero” archetype in the novel, Ender’s Game. Ender saved all of mankind by destroying the bugger planet and showed that he was in fact a morally good person by protecting the bugger cocoon and trying to find a good place for it to thrive after he had wiped them out. These reasons would classify him as the “hero” archetype which is an archetype that ends up saving many people and also is a morally good person while doing

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