![]() ![]() The point I'm driving at here is that the title can mean a great many things, depending on how you'd like to interpret it. Similarly, he does that with the bully at the beginning of the story. Here, the "game" is the game of cat and mouse, or you could even take it to mean Ender was game, as in prey, for Bonzo, but he ends that. He ends Bonzo, and the thus the competition between them. He ends the Mind Game by killing the giant and going where it had never gone before. He ends the way the Battle School was run, by ending the existing dynamics of the Battle Room games. Specifically, at the end of the story, when he thinks he's still playing a game controlling a simulation space fleet, he actually ends the Formic threat.īut, Ender also ends other things. The title is referring to the game of the ender, i.e. "Ender" was chosen for the short story solely so that I could have the title "Ender's Game." The Battle Room counts because of the earlier quote that says he played the game all his life, which means the Battle Room is included.Īs you yourself noted, this doesn't fit because the Mind Game wasn't in the original short story. The Battle Room and/or simulator (which form the core of the book) That was the theory, and you proved that the theory worked." So we trained children, who didn't know anything but the game, and never knew when it would become real. Ender's mind was too tired to cope with it all. And finally today you fought them at their home world, and you destroyed their world, their fleet, you destroyed them completely, and they'll never come against us again. Maezr then grew serious and said, "Ender Wiggins, for the last months you have been the commander of our fleets. ![]() Maezr reached out and touched his shoulder. We're staging this battle around a planet." He had been trained in nothing but the game all his life, but now the game began to consume him.Įnder shrugged. He began fighting two battles a day, with problems that steadily grew more difficult. He coined it only to allow the title "Ender's Game" to be reminiscent of "endgame" in chess (src: OCS's website)Īnd the "Game" mostly refers to the final battle that Ender thinks is a game, and more generally the training game that he thinks he's playing.Īll quotes are from the original 1977 Analog version of short story: ![]()
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