"Sometimes I feel like if you watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
~ Delirium By Lauren Oliver

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ender #4 (The end of the book)

The last chapters of Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card were a few of the best in my opinion. Ender realized that he was both the destroyer and savior of a race. Had he realized that he was actually killing them he would have stopped because there is so much empathy in him and because they never picked a fight with him first, he had no reason to destroy them. Since his teachers all knew that, they did not ask him if he wanted to to kill them. They just tricked him and said it was just his final test in the games. He ended up obliterating their home planet just thinking it was all a game, but it almost destroyed him after he found out. The Buggers left Ender a message that only he would understand and be able to figure out what to do. They left an egg for him to find that had a queen inside who could be the mother to a reborn race.  and they also explained to him that they had not planned to come back to Earth to fight again because they had realized that were are as intelligent, if not more so, than them. They realized their mistake, but the humans didn't know that. Being so xenophobic we weren't going to take any chances of them coming back again, so we (as humans) decided that we were ending it once and for all. Ender was just thrown in it as the Commander of the fleet because of his intelligence and because he was just so good at what he did. He defeated the enemy when he was just an eleven year old boy. Yet, no one asked him what he wanted to do or asked him even if he would. In the end, it was great to see that a boy who had no control over his life eventually grew to help determine the future of human space colonies and the future of an entire species.

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