Wednesday, June 2, 2010

List the conflicts in Ender's Game.

There
are a lot of internal and external conflicts present throughout this book.  I'll try to list as
many as I can. 

  • Ender's conflict with Bonzo.  This one ends with
    physical violence and Bonzo's death. 
  • Ender's conflict with Stilson.  Like
    the previous conflict, Ender kills his opponent.  
  • Ender's conflict with
    the commanding "officer" of each army that he is a part of in the battle room.  When
    Ender first gets to Battle School, no army or commander wants anything to do with
    Ender. 
  • Ender's conflict with the other commanding officers once he himself
    gets control of Dragon Army.  Even as a fellow commander, Ender doesn't immediately gain the
    respect of the other commanders.  Ender also struggles to gain the respect of the soldiers
    assigned to his army. 
  • Ender's real conflict and battle against the buggers
    at the end of the book. 
  • Ender's conflict with Graff and other Battle
    School adults.  Ender knows that he's being manipulated.  
  • Ender struggles
    with being a "third."  
  • Ender struggles to remain good while
    knowing that he must at times be violent and cold like Peter. 
  • Valentine
    and Peter struggle against each other regarding their plan to influence politics on Earth.
     
  • Valentine and Peter have a fake struggle against each other
    as Demosthenes and Locke. 
  • Every time Ender steps into the battle room, he
    is in conflict against another army.  
  • Ender struggles with depression as a
    result of feeling extremely isolated throughout various parts of the book.  

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