In the award-winning novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card there are many characters that influence Ender throughout his travels. Ender is influenced in one way or another by just about every person he comes into contact with. Most of these influences, however, are very subtle and do not make a direct or dramatic change in his life. There are three main people that Ender spends a lot of time with that influence him the most.

The first character that influenced Ender was Peter, his older brother. All throughout their early childhoods, Peter would force Ender into playing cruel games similar to "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians," but this was Buggers and humans. Ender was always the Bugger who would get beaten badly by the "human," Peter. Peter would often make death threats to Ender and his sister, Valentine. Peter was never really sure if Peter was serious with these threats or not, but he was smart enough to know that if he had wanted to, Peter could have killed them both. As a direct result of these rough games and threats, Ender developed a ruthless, battle- minded. He displayed this trait at the fight after school with Stilson while he was still on Ear

From all three of these very important people, Ender learned at least one new character trait. From Peter he learned to be ruthless and show no mercy. Then from Colonel Graff he learned to be resilient and crafty in his ways. Finally, from Mazar Rackham he learned to be clutch, do his best at all times, and to never fully trust anybody. In Card's Ender's Game, the use of characters helps to develop Ender's character throughout all his travels. In this particular novel those three characters compose most of Ender's personality traits that he learned while growing up. Ender experienced more in the short 11 years of his life than most people would in 3 or 4 lifetimes, and Ender has Peter, Graff, and Mazar to thank for that.

Finally, Mazar Rackham had a tremendous impact on Ender. He was Ender's private teacher once he got to the I.F. Academy. He told Ender that he was the enemy and never to trust him. Ender never knew when Mazar was going to turn on him or help him, and this taught Ender to never trust anyone completely, because of this he became more self-reliant and it kept him on his toes. Mazar also taught Ender all of his knowledge on his defeat of the buggers in the second invasion. Ender studied classified information and played the simulation game with his crew, who, as it turned out, were all his good friends from battle school. Then all of a sudden it switched to actual battles with the buggers with real lives at stake, but Ender was never told. Then finally, th

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