Ender's Game

I really enjoyed reading Ender's Game and thought that it was a really good book. It is one of my best friends favorite books so Ive been meaning to read it for years. I thought it was very interesting to see a culture that I see as giving up all of their hope in adults, and placing all of their hope for the future in the hands of children. Their entire world revolves around finding super intelligent children and placing them into battle school, where they will be trained to save the war. In the book it said that people did not usually go to command school until they were 16, so Ender was a marvel. But to us having a 16 year old commanding an army would be completely ludicrous, especially the thought of having a 13 year old save the world. But afterwards he was regarded as a national hero, no matter that he was only 13, him being so young was just a sign to everyone about how great and brilliant he must be.
I also found it very interesting to see how Ender had been tricked almost all of his life, something that they had been able to do even though he was a genius. It seemed to me that while he was brilliant and ruthless, he was still gullible and naive, and that they almost wanted him more for that then for his abilities. Because he did not question what they asked him to do, he was simply a child at school being told what he had to do. If he had known the truth about Bonzo or Stilson he never would have gone on, he felt so horrible at the thought of even hurting them. Or if he had known that he was really fighting the buggers he would have stopped because of his guilt. SO they kept him in a little bubble separate from everyone else so that he would remain naive enough to keep doing what he was told, giving him just enough information for him to believe it really was just a game or a test. Keeping him separate from reality and keeping him innocent allowed them to do achieve all of their goals without him finding out until the very end.