| Re: A most peculiar take on Ender's Game That guy is totally obnoxious (the guy who wrote the artical) and he blows thing completely out of porportion, there is no incest in the story Ender just loved his older sister because she was the only person (it seemed) who cared about him, there was no pedophilia in the story either the colonel just said he cared about Ender in the fact that he didn't want to destroy Ender, just make him better. Yes there was child abuse but that was just an element of the story that made it more militaristic, it was military school after all, they don't baby you that's not their job. And the whole thing about adults pretending to be 14 is stupid, just because he does it with his childish comments doesn't mean everyone else does, in fact all the kids in my freshman class admit to pretending to be older than they are to gain rep on the internet. And his dismission of the Game had no precedence at all, it in fact allowed him to gain a reputation for leading as well as meet the few people in the school that matched him mentally and had the endurance to stay up through the invasion of the bugger homeworld minus Petra and Ender himself who were just worked to much.
All in all this guy is just an overly critical ass who tries to make himself seem smart by doggin' on Card. I wouldn't give what he had too much thought seeing as how as soon as this thread is done with noone will talk about him again.
Littlemissattitude don't forgot the Wotrthing saga by Card himself which deals with a great deal of religion.
Last edited by Narainatar; 18th December 2005 at 06:15 PM.
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