- It is quite obvious that throughout this book Ender is becoming very depressed and struggling to keep his sanity in tact. I believe that this is because of the technology in the book. Everything that Ender experiences up in space has something to do with technology. When he is playing the Giants game, the battle room and even the space travel that he experiences. I believe that because of this technology he is not getting a proper child hood. He hasn't grown up as a normal child should, he hasn't grown up with board games and toys. No his childhood is in the battle room and slaying giants on the desk. I think that this has messed him up.
- 3/4 of the way through the book Valentine and Peter start to wonder into the world of politics with a motive, start the war again. Because of this technology these two children have been able to persuade much of the world into hating the Russians and the Russians hating the world. These two children have been able to move the world through the technology of the internet and the desks that they use. It is this easy to start a war that could split the world in half. If two children can do it then I believe that the world has advanced it's technology extremely rapidly and they need to slow down otherwise we will only be destroying ourselves.
In both of these instances humans are significantly involved. In the first point the innocent life of a child is destroyed and the calm playful memories and thoughts of a 10 year old is replaced with the vicious and tactful mind of a war bearer. This affects not only the boy but the people around the boy.
In the second point the whole of the human race is in jeopardy as a war erupts and slits the world in two. The thing that I find ironic about this point is how that something so complicated like taking over the world and plunging it into war, because of technology is possible for a child.
This is why that I think that the technological advance in the story is very negative.
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