Enders Game

Enders Game

Andrew Wiggin, the third in a family of geniuses, is selected by the international military forces to save the world from assured destruction. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from the malicious Peter, he is only saved from Peter when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, in order to help save the world from the buggers.

The buggers are the responsible for the greatest and worst achievements to have ever stricken mankind, unity of all nations of Earth, and the highest death count humanity has ever witnessed.

“Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth”- From this I learned that reality can be harsh and not what you want to hear all the time so people lie to make themselves feel better. In the book Ender says this because he doesn’t want to face the fact that he can no longer be with is family and he will be in battle school. I also learned that people do not lie on purpose, but they instead they do not notice that they are lying because they truly think it is the