Plot line of Ender's Game

1. Ender’s Game Plotline
By Robert Li

2. Exposition
• Ender lives with his mother and father. He has
a kind sister named Valentine, and a brother
named Peter. Valentine is kinder while his
brother is a brute.
• This story takes place in the future. Earth is at
war with an alien species called the Buggers.
• The world needs a new leader, someone
bright, cunning, and a quick-thinker.

3. Rising action
• Ender beats up a boy at school because he is defending
himself. A military program notices Ender’s intelligence
and wits. So they recruit him for Battle School.
• Once he arrives at the school, he is noticed by the head
to be the brightest pupil. They then isolate him to
develop a mind of his own.
• As he quickly rises up the ranks of the school, he makes
several enemies, all of them are jealous of him or
resent him.
• At the school, they have null-gravity combat
training, and despite being at such a young age, Ender
is given an army, Dragon Army.

4. Climax
• Ender soon moves to another school leaving his
enemies behind. This school is training Ender to
fight the Buggers as he has been selected to lead
Earth into war.
• The ex-leader, Mazer Rackham, is his mentor. In
class he trains Ender to take command of fleets of
space-ships and fight the enemy. However, what
Ender doesn’t know is that he is being tricked. He
isn’t fighting Mazer, he’s fighting the real war and
every ship he looses, means more human lives
lost.

5. Falling action
• “Mazer” still trains Ender with the fight simulator.
Ender has beaten Mazer several times at
increasing odds, so they decide to put him to the
final test. As a “test to get him to the next school”
he faces “Mazer” in one final battle. This time at
the enemies final frontier. He’s outnumbered and
out gunned but he still manages to defeat the
enemy.
• Ender has wiped out the Buggers from the
Universe.

6. Resolution
• At the end of everything, Mazer and the head
of the entire program to confess to him. That
he wasn’t fighting a simulation.
• When it dawned on him, he broke down.
Ender is a peaceful person. He doesn’t like to
kill, he only does it when he needs to.
• He realizes that he has killed all the Buggers.
And he realizes that every time he lost a
ship, human lives where lost, on his watch.

7. Theme
• The theme of this book was not to believe
everything that you hear. In other words,
when someone tells you something, treat it
with a does of skepticism.
• Ender was told by Mazer that he was fighting
a simulation. In the end, he found out if
wasn’t a simulation.

8. Conflict
• The conflict in the story was Ender vs. himself
• Ender hated to kill. He wanted to be peaceful
like his sister Valentine. However, he
demonstrated violence before school, at
school, and during simulation.