Ender’s Game question

No. Disregarding the other books and just focusing on Ender's Game, I feel it would have ruined the book to have Ender return to earth. The whole book was pointing towards how a good, fairly moral human being can commit an unforgivable mistake. Ender philosophy as a child, is to beat the bullies so badly that they will never be able to hurt him again. His name is "Ender" in case you missed that. He ENDS them. The climax of the book is when he learns how wrong that philosophy is, by accidentally destroying an entire alien race. He leaves humanity behind, in order to make sure he will never be manipulated into repeating his mistake, and hopefully to start to undo that damage he has done.

The ending caught me off guard. I actually wasn't expecting it. The young man was trying to handle his demons only to find out he was manipulated into killing an entire race. The very demon he is fighting is the very tip of the spear he used. Oddly Card points out that Ender saved humanity, fought the good fight, and is the hero, yet it feels like a monumental loss. Tough stuff. I can see it work on both the ending that Card wrote and an ending where he returns home to face his internally perceived loss.

No i dont think he should have returned to Earth. Chances are his brother would have killed him at some point. He would have been celebrated because he killed the buggers, that would have destroyed him he wasnt proud of those deaths he considered it murder not just of the buggers but the humans on the ships. Also he was a weapon and a very dangerous one not something you want living next door

Well, there are other books in the series but I haven't read those. They didn't seem as good. I'm not a big fan of where those went. But I LOVED the ending of Ender's Game. That twist! So Card should have made the other books more like Ender's Game.

Yeah I remember when I first read the twist I had to reread it like 5 times to understand what the heck had happened! But I agree he shouldn't come back.

ender should not go back to earth because he would be confused and in danger because of the great power the Peter and Valentine have. i think it would be way to much for him to handle emotionally. plus he is happy trying to make it up to the buggers by finding them a new home.

I too was not satisfied with the ending, although it was a great book overall. I would have liked there to be something more to it than him flying off into the unknown.

I don't think he should've. I mean he killed two boys out of anger and won the war by cruel tactics. Just think about what he would do on earth.

yea because first he did not want to go so he should have went back to earth

He had no place on Earth. If he went home, he couldn't live a normal life. He would probably leave soon after arriving anyway, assuming he didn't get assassinated or kidnapped shortly after returning to Earth.

No he couldn't have. He has no home there, he thinks his parents never truly loved him, he would be terrified of his brother having such power, And he would have to react to his sister being Domenthesis, people would hate him, and, of course, He would be depressed after killing an entire race. He wouldn't be able to live with the people he "saved." He would hate himself and want to do something to make up for what he did, but he couldn't on Earth where no one needs real saving any more.

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I appreciate where Orson Card took the series and many of the philosophical issues he touched on were ones I hadn't spent much time thinking on before I read the books. On the same hand, it would also be interesting to see Card take Ender back to earth in an attempt to end war, and to see how Card would have had Ender pacify the bloodlust many humans have. The power of Peter and Valentine was still in its early stages after Ender defeated the buggers, and Ender could have easily overcome it. I appreciate how Card instead of having Ender go back to earth sent him on a mission to reestablish the Buggers, but in a sci-fi novel that allows one to travel faster than light, it wouldn't be too hard to have a parallel universe where Ender had gone back to earth so we could see what that would be like.

I don't think that Ender should have ever come back to Earth. Card's ending was perfect. If Ender had come to Earth, the series would just not have been as good from that point on. But in other words, the other books in the series are amazing. I actually enjoy Xenocide for than Ender's game sometimes.

I don't recognize Speaker or the next two books as canon. My choice as a reader. The author can do whatever he wants, that's his work, his right. But, I don't have to follow him. Yes, I felt that Ender should have returned to Earth. It's ridiculous that he didn't in the first place. But that's just my opinion, fwiw. I didn't like any of the sequels and regretted reading them (and in the case of Children, had to stop 1/4 way because it was rubbish).