
Peter and Valentine's activities on the information networks also provide an interesting discussion point on political blogs and how they influence public opinion. Students can keep character charts in order to keep track of Ender's siblings, peers, and instructors and their relationships to him and each other. The futuristic setting can also be compared to contemporary life. Students can discuss the significance of these allusions as they come up in the reading.Įnder's Game can be analyzed on a number of levels, from family dynamics and peer relations to the ethics of war. Students should be familiarized with historic events and figures, including the Warsaw Pact, John Locke, Demosthenes, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Julius Caesar. Orson Scott Card makes a number of allusions throughout the novel, some of which may require explanation. Ender's Game is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time and offers a futuristic setting that provides much allegorical content.
