Ender's Game Blogpost #3

     In today's last discussion about Ender's Game with my group, we talked about many things, but the one thing that caught my attention most was about how the Bugger's offered Ender a form of redemption.  When Ender goes to Eros and explores, he sees the Fantasy Game he played in Battle School turned into a real landscape. Eros is a planet where the buggers used to live and is now being inhibited by humans. The buggers built this Fantasy Game landscape to prove to Ender that they knew him and that they know him better than anyone.
     A question was how did the buggers know about Ender? Ender answers this question by saying that through his dreams and the computer system he used, the buggers grew to know Ender's mind and what his motives were. The buggers realized that even though Ender had killed their whole species, he did not do it on purpose. In fact, he was tricked into doing it. Building this for Ender proves that they were not ignorant to the things that he had been forced to do.
     After Ender defeated the buggers, he didn't want to face anyone again because he was ashamed of what he did even though it wasn't his fault. He felt like because it was him killing anything, it was automatically his fault it had happened. When the buggers built the place for Ender, Ender went to explore it. When he reached the End of the World, he normally just dies or the game continues and continues with no where else to really progress, but on Eros, when Ender reached the End of the World, he finds something else. At the End of the World, Ender always see a mirror where he sees either Valentine or Peter and then he opens the mirror and finds a snake that is there to kill him or at one point, become Valentine. In Eros, when he opened the mirror, he found a new beginning for himself and for the buggers. He found a form of redemption and forgiveness for himself that the buggers offered. Behind the mirror was the queen bugger egg. To start a new life for buggers, Ender has to take care of the egg and keep it safe. After killing their whole species and absolutely regretting every bit of it, Ender finds a way to redeem himself fully by helping the queen start bugger life again.
     Redemption is always given when someone makes a mistake. There isn't a mistake made that is completely unforgivable. No matter how people look at it, there are ways to redeem yourself when you make a horrible mistake. This is whether or not you prove to yourself and the other person that you are not this person who continuously makes mistakes. Ender finds redemption within himself and for the buggers.