ENDER'S GAME OF THRONES PART 1

The power to cause pain is the only power that matters. The power to kill and destroy. Because if you can't kill, then you care always subject to those who can. And nothing and no one will ever save you. - Ender Wiggin

ENDER'S GAME

I think I could describe this novel in three words. Ender, win and friend. He has always won, save for the Salamander army, he always thinks of new and innovative strategies to confuse and eventually trick the enemy. He seems like a modern Chip Kelly. He always makes friends everywhere he goes and loves to be liked by everyone. He turns bullies into friends, and that is a very good skill to have. He hates fighting and seems to always to be on the inner circles of a group.  It seems like Ender makes friends and then loses them because his teacher keep moving him around the school. He meets his launch group, moves to Salamander army. Meets Petra and then moves to Rat army. It seems like they want Ender to never have any relationships but at the same time they are ‘arming a bomb’. If Ender quits and doesn’t try anymore then they can’t do anything about it. They were trying to make him a battle hardened soldier, but if the soldier isn’t tough enough, he is going to crack. Luckily enough, he didn’t crack. I felt like this book is hard to get through because of its repetitiveness. I start reading and then “Yes ANOTHER battle!” I had to almost force myself through the boring parts. This might be also caused by my high expectations for books. I looked online for some discussion questions and one of the questions was: Is childhood a right? Does a person robbed of a "normal" childhood have any possibility of stability as an adult? Does Ender have any chance of living "happily ever after"? Childhood technically isn’t a right in the bill of rights for America but for a human right I think it is but, Ender chose to go to battle school on his own free will. Nobody was forcing him to do it. All of the training and other things that Ender is going through is really tough for a boy his age. His stability as an adult isn’t very likely. If Ender can try to have a normal childhood with whatever he has left of it I think he could have a happy ever after but if he continues down this path PTSD is more likely. Soldiers get this from coming back from war but it could be very possible that a kid could get it if he was exposed to something traumatic. Like working in a boot camp for his childhood.