Ender's Game Blog #4

The last three chapters of Ender's Game consist of many different atmospheres. First of all, Ender struggles with who he is and what his purpose is in life. He wants nothing more to do with battle even though he is the master of it. With the help of Valentine, Graff gets him to go and wipe out the buggers. He later does wipe them out, but is bothered by it because of the perfect manipulation behind the entire battle. It turned out to all be nothing but an evil plot to destroy a race that humans knew nothing about just because of a previous offence. Ender then goes off to find a new life and ends up in a world the same as his computer game. Through the game, the buggers were almost trying to say something to Ender, to tell him that they didn't want to attack, but to understand humans. Ender feels ashamed, but writes a book about the life and history of the race he single handedly destroyed. To me, this whole story was very endearing, and it helped me further understand the true evil of xenophobia. I realize that this is only a book, but it dirrectly applies to our every day life, and this book has many connections to our own human history. We humans are affraid of other humans that don't look the same as we do. We have attempted mass homicide before to eliminate a race that we knew nothing about. It is all really very tragic that people have to be that way toward others that are mysterious to us, and I think that this book was a very good example of that.