In Ender’s Game, children are portrayed as calculating, ruthless, and violent. Many have complained to the author, Orson Scott Card, that this is unrealistic. However, I disagree. While it is uncharacteristic of children to behave this way in real life, the children in Ender’s game are a product of their environment. Examples of this come not only from the Battle School, but also from everyday life on Earth and the attitudes of the adults. In the world of Ender’s Game, the society the children are in is wildly flawed. The futuristic Earth that Card depicts is almost dystopian in nature. Children are monitored from a young age. Ender describes his monitor as, “perched on his neck, hearing what he heard and seeing what he saw”(Card 6). This
