Ender Wiggin's evolution

Author’s note: This writing is about how Ender has evolved throughout the book so far. The book itself is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

Ender Wiggin is a Third, meaning the third child of a family, in the far future of earth. In this future Earth is constantly in danger from a Formic (a new race of aliens that look like humans and bugs put together) invasion. The Formic fleet tried to invade earth twice before; the second time they were pushed back for good. The Formic fleet scared earth so much that now earth feels as though they have to take kids at the age of 5 or younger and testing them to see if they have ample enough skills to join the army. If they do they are taken from their families, AT THE AGE OF 5, and put into battle schools. Some kids are the lucky ones and they have the choice to volunteer to go to a school made to create the officers and even higher positions, which Ender is chosen for.

Throughout his school life Ender becomes more and more like his brother Peter, who is extremely cruel. Ender starts to resent the feelings he has that anything that annoys him, he should kill.  For example, when he is playing the computer game set up for the students at battle school, and he gets annoyed that he can never get out of the trap set for him by the twisted giant, so he goes straight for the giants eyeballs like a hyena going after its prey, and tears it out and rips it apart as easily as if it were cheese. At that moment he realizes how much like Peter he has become, how much of a monstrous murderer he would become, and he feels ashamed of it thinking to himself “I have become a murderess fiend even in something as petty as a game. Peter would be so proud of me.”