Ender's Game

I think that Ender's Game highlights the importance of letting people be themselves, and letting them succeed in their own ways. The adult teachers of Ender's battle school were always poking their noses into his life, his head, and his emotions. Nothing was safe or private from them. His genius and usefullness as a tool of war was a excuse for the adults to use him instead of letting him be a child or letting him make his own friendships. They justified their actions by saying that they had to do it in order to save the world, and Ender was willing to go to the battle school in order to save the world (and his sister Valientine) but I don't think that their actions in forcing him to be bullied and isolated were justified. For all they know, Ender might have been an even better commander without their interferance if they'd just been honest and let in him on what they were planning on doing with him. And because of there actions, the stress and the isolation wrecks havoc on Ender's psyche.

People and nations can be like that sometimes. They think that their meddling is for the greater good, but they don't try trusting the little people first.

I've read it before, and the other books in the series. It seems I focus on very different parts of the story, depending on what mood I'm in.