This sounds like a homework assignment, so I'll just give
you some tips to get you started. How you answer the question depends on which
character's problems you focus on.
In Ender's
Game, the human race is fighting against its own extinction. Earth is
threatened by a race of alien creatures called buggers. The adults in the book
manipulate Andrew "Ender" Wiggin into commanding the battle against the bugger threat.
They realize Ender has the potential to be a military genius, so they take him from his
family and send him to a military academy called Battle School in outer space. There,
they purposely isolate him from the other students in order to make him work hard to
become a leader among them. They present Ender with harder and harder challenges in the
form of military games. In the end, they set Ender to work playing a game of command.
Although Ender does not know it, he is really commanding an invasion against the bugger
worlds.
Ender has a different problem. He knows that the
buggers are out there, and that he has to fight them someday, but he never knows he is
actually fighting them until after he has defeated them. His main problem in the book is
that his teachers keep presenting him with challenges, and these challenges are very
dangerous. He struggles against social isolation, bullying, and stress. He has fights
with bullies and finds creative ways to win games when the odds are against
him.
To do your assignment, you first need to choose
whether you want to write about what Ender does, or what the adults do. Then look
through the book to find the specifics about those characters' actions. If you feel
overwhelmed when you look for major events in the whole book, start by reviewing a
summary (link below). You might also want to look at the analyses of the characters. If
you focus on Ender, you should read about Andrew Wiggin (link below). If you want to
focus on the adults, you should read about Colonel Graff, Major Anderson, and Mazer
Rakham (link below).
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