Response to "The Purpose Behind the Game"

This is something that I found in Leon's Blog that I thought was interesting to talk about:

I thought that the I.F. is planning on brain washing these children while they are in Battle school. They are planning to build an army in order to stay in power like Dink said in the book. The I.F. played the videos of the buggers invading Earth was a method of propaganda. They want to keep humans in fear so they would all look up to the I.F. for help. This way, the I.F. can stay in power and do whatever they want to do.

From what I read from his post, the “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card sounded like a pretty interesting book. It made me feel like it is book that have a lot of deep meanings drilled into it. Even though, it sounded cliché because of the fact that is about humans fighting aliens, I feel like it is a lot deeper than it seemed. If I think about how the events in this book relate to life like what Leon did, I could see that this book can reflect upon the many ways of how our modern society work.

From what I know in history, many countries gave out many propaganda about the horror of doings from other countries to make the people feel like they need to rely on the governments' or kings' powers in order to survive. By doing so, the higher-ups would not have to worry about getting kicked out of their power positions, but instead they just ended up having to get the people in it's army to get stronger and stronger in order to fend other countries if they do decide to invade. In this case, the I.F. brained-wash children in battle school to make them really strong, so they wouldn't have to worry about getting beat and ended up losing their power because of their loss against aliens.

In conclusion, these kinds of analysis really brought out the fun of reading books. The “Ender's Game” seemed to be a really good book to read because it is a science-fiction that reflected itself to how our modern society work despite the fact that this book take place way in the future, but this irony is what make this book so interesting to think about.