Themes

Write what you think the main three themes of the novel are. Describe with detail and evidence

Theme 1:

Sometimes youth can do a better job than the adults. This is shown through the fact that Ender destroys the bugger race at age eleven (or maybe twelve) where the adult who came closest was Mazer Rackham, who only destroyed one queen during the Second Invasion.

Theme 2:

People can learn through seemingly unconventional methods. This shown through the fact the Ender trains by playing video games, something that people now normally associate with procrastination and wasting time.

Theme 3:

Isolation yields individual strength. This shown through the actions of Colonel Graff. Graff isolated Ender throughout the book, and Ender turned out to be the best general humanity ever had at age twelve, destroying the bugger race.