Ender's Game

In "Ender's Game", I found that the intelligence of the children made it hard to remember that the main characters were children. In the story these children had the roles that even most adults hope to never have to play. The fact that the children had to become adult so young and have no childhood is so sad. This story is in some ways the same as the story of so many of the children growing up now because of the wide spread uses of drugs and the violence. In this story, the innocence of youth is taken away for all of the children without them ever even knowing they would never have it back. Games in the story helped to save the whole race of mankind, in the current real world those same type of games are taking and ruining the whole race. Children become violet and uncaring toward each other because separating reality from the game becomes almost impossible. The same type of thing was demonstrated in the fact that even Ender got caught up in the games to become a different type of child and in his dreams he still never left the game. This is a future that could be seen but I sure hope we never have to resort to using children as adults.