Young Ender Wiggin, in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is smallish for his age, smart, and a bit of a misfit. In the movie of the same name by Summit Entertainment, Colonel Graff wants Ender to remain a misfit and even manipulates events so the other young students will hate Ender. Graff doesn’t want Ender to rely on anyone and even cuts off his emails to and from home so the young boy can focus on his studies.
Despite the people in his life who try to keep Ender from forming relationships, he creates his own network of friends and allies as he moves through the classes and battle games. He realizes, as does the psychiatrist Major Anderson, “We should never have allowed you to be alone.”
Now it’s your turn: In a paragraph or two, describe how you have formed your own network of friends, allies, and relatives and how they have helped you.
If you do not have a “safety net” of people around you, describe how you could go about developing your own community of friends, allies, and relatives to be on your team in life.
Movie poster from imdb.com.
