Archetype In Ender's Game

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Most referred to as Ender instead of his first name, he learns that in order to survive according to the government, he needs to sacrifice his life and family for Battle School. Throughout the book, Ender considers himself a ruthless killer that will turn into his older brother, Peter. In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Ender Wiggin fulfills the apocalyptical hero archetype because he faces the possibility of Earth going to war unless he sacrifices his innocence.
When Colonel Graff goes down to Earth to recruit Ender Wiggin he didn’t tell him the full truth about what they wished him to do. What he did tell him was he would not be able to see his family until he older which was a sacrifice Ender needed do to help armies. In Battle

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