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HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
2016-04-08 15:41:50

It doesn't look like either version really gets at the point the book is trying to make. I'd make it something like:

  • Ender's Game: Deconstructed. Military Child Prodigy Ender Wiggin says at one point that he can only defeat his enemies if he understands them better than they understand themselves, and that he can't understand them that completely unless he also loves them the way they love themselves. The fact that the moment at which he best loves and understands his enemy is also the moment at which he utterly destroys them causes him great personal anguish and self-loathing.

war877 Since: Dec, 2015
2016-04-08 22:41:00

In addition to being factually wrong, that new example sounds like it doesn't fit all loving hero.

(by which I mean the one in the OP)

Edited by war877
Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-04-09 08:07:06

I like High Crate's version. The other two really don't get the point of him being a child soldier who doesn't process enemy and ally the way an adult does. (In the short story I originally read, he didn't even know he was fighting a real enemy until after the planet went kaboom -which the adults told him not to do, but not why.)

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