Ender's Game

I have to admit, this is my 5-6th time reading through Ender's Game. Though this reading is for a class, I still believe I have to contend that Card's idea of children taking on adult roles is a good one especially because he set up the children with emotions and intelligence beyond that of normal adults. Though many criticize that it is horrible that Card used children in his war novel, I believe that that this concept is perfectly fine. Card perfectly imagined the idea of children having active roles in news forums (though he may have slightly exaggerated the idea of children taking over the world. In today's internet-based culture, the measure of character depends only on intelligence level in the person's writing as opposed to the age of the person. It is fairly easy to talk to an intelligent person online and consider him a debate buddy despite him being of a young age.

Card, in Ender's game, and in his later series begin to further pronounce his belief that nothing should be age based - instead, everything should intelligence based - as proof of later relationships and feelings love between Petra and Bean in Ender's Shadow and Shadow Puppets at their young age.