Ender's Empathic Abilities Orson Scott Card's work of science fiction, Ender's Game, is the exciting and poignant tale of a genius, Ender Wiggin, whom the Government takes from home at an early age to mold into a military commander. From his turbulent childhood, to his days at the physically and psychologically taxing Battle School, to his conquest of the buggers and ultimate colonization of their world, the most essential and useful aspect of Ender's prodigious …showed first 75 words of 1513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1513 total…and thrive in peace. He looked a long time." By concluding the novel in this fashion, possibly, Card is relating to the reader that, even though it is often harder to put your gift to good use than to bad (…'he looked a long time'), it is important at least to strive for goodness, and never think that, just because you have used your gift in a destructive manner in the past, you cannot change.