Enders Game vs. For All We Have and Are :: Orson Scott Card Rudyard Kipling

The numbers For tout ensemble we Have and Are by Rudyard Kipling examines the sacrifices made in war. Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card, also analyzes the what an undivided must(prenominal) give up for the survival of a group, but two of his characters, Ender Wiggin and Colonel Graff, would have differing views of Kiplings poem and a persons role in war. Rudyard Kipling wrote his poem in 1914 at the beginning of World fight I. For All We Have and Are, is a calling to protect England from a real gap of falling. Kipling describes an urgent need to fight back, Stand up and take the war./ The Hun is at the gate He distinguishs that fighting means the loss of life, but he believes it is expenditure it to defend what is at stake, For all we have and argon. Kipling makes the point that as long as England prevails, the death of an individual is unimportant. Colonel Graff would agree with Kipling idea of individual sacrifice. It is the policy of the I.F. throughout the novel to forgo t he freedoms of a person to reassure the survival of humanity against the buggers. At Battle School, Graff?s purpose is to correct children for mankind to use as tools to fight the buggers. Graff cares for Ender, but he willingly misguides and manipulates him. He takes away Ender?s freedom, takes him from Earth, takes him from Valentine, and forces him to kill. Graff sacrifices his own humanity, so that Ender can perish humanity?s tool. Graff explains to Ender the I.F. philosophy which parallels Kipling?s, ?Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. . . . if humankind survives, then we were good tools.?Ender could not authentically relate to Kipling?s poem because everything to Ender is distant. In Ender?s world the buggers are not the pressing threat that the Central Powers were in World War I. The buggers are light-years away. Ender has only faced them in videos and in his dreams. Ender understands he must be a tool, but he is never given an opportunity to be anyt hing else. Graff understands the feelings Ender?s isolation creates, ?when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself, . . . it?s easy to forget why earth is worth saving.