Article: Why I Hate Ender's Game

This is the article referenced in the Summer Assignment Essay Prompt: Why I Hate Ender's Game. The essential part of the article is

This also leads to another thing I realized.

Nobody ever grows or changes during the course of Ender's game.

Sure, people get new jobs, or go to different schools, or grow in prestige. But at no point over the course of the novel do we see a demonstrable growth or change in any of the characters, despite the fact that Ender ages from six to roughly eleven.

I'm willing to grant Card the "exceedingly young hero" just because every science fiction novel geared toward young adults — and many that aren't — runs into this problem.

But to see no demonstrable character growth just sort of removes the stakes from it. Card in many ways suffers from the same problem that Asimov faced in some of his great novels, the fact that he had a rocking plot concept but his characters were two-dimensional cardboard cutouts just going through the motions to make that awesome plot happen.

Any other part of the article dealing with static characters is fair game to add to your essay, but avoid bringing in other points like "lack of futurist vision" or "sexism." They may (or may not) make for a poor book, but they don't belong in your essay. Read more: Business Insider.