Mind Fantasy Game
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The Mind Fantasy Game is a game that is played by the students in Orson Scott Card's Book Ender's Game to monitor their psychological development and stability while they are in Battle School.
[edit] Ender Wiggin's Exposure to the Mind Fantasy Game
In the beginning of the game, Ender passes through the obstacles flawlessly, and then comes across a Giant who tells Ender that he must choose between two potions - one that will keep him alive, and another that will kill him, and if Ender succeeded this riddle, he would be taken to "Fairyland". He realizes the game is rigged and instead of taking either of the drinks (countless tries later), he knocks over the drinks and digs though the Giant's eyeball and kills the Giant. After the fall of the Giant, Ender is greeted by a bat, he shows the bat the Giant's eyeball, and it greets him with "Welcome to Fairyland". Ender exits, but returns to the game later. Passing the giant's corpse, which is now a set of bones, he finds a group of sadistic children in a playground. After he gets slaughtered by the children, who turn into wolves, Ender figures out how to knock them out by use of a glitch, and then banishing them in a brook. Then, he lowers himself into a well. Eventually he reaches a kingdom called "The End of the World." He jumps off the edge,gets caught by cloud,jumps off that, and lands on/in a tower. In this area, Ender finds a room with a snake and a mirror. Time after time, Ender kills the snake and sees his brother, Peter's, reflection in the mirror and is, in turn, killed by the game. He tries other methods of exiting, such as trying to pry open the door, or break the window with a brick, but the attempts again fail and he dies. He is stuck at this point, and, combined with the pressures of Battle School, is bordering on a breakdown. When he receives a letter from his sister, Valentine, who Ender had come to believe to be his enemy, he succeeds in surviving the encounter. Instead of killing the snake, he kisses it, accidentally, at which point it turns into Valentine, and the mirror reflection shows a dragon and a unicorn, and Ender realizes he will always love his sister and she is always with him. The dragon represents Ender and his army with the same name, whereas the unicorn represents purity: Valentine. After this, he stops playing the game, saying "I won." Most of this game reflected upon Ender on how much he really is like Peter, or how murderous he can be. However, it also reflects on the innocent side of murderers, which is shown when crowds of "Peters" can be seen clapping for Ender and Valentine. Translation of this, however, has sparked some controversy over the story's "Innocent Killer" nature.
| Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series | |
|---|---|
| Ender Quartet | Ender's Game | Speaker for the Dead | Xenocide | Children of the Mind |
| Bean Quartet | Ender's Shadow | Shadow of the Hegemon | Shadow Puppets | Shadow of the Giant |
| Additional books | Shadows in Flight | Ender in Exile: Ganges (working title) |
| Short stories | First Meetings: "The Polish Boy" | "Teacher's Pest" | "Investment Counselor"
Intergalactic Medicine Show: "Mazer in Prison" | "Pretty Boy" | "Cheater" |
| Books | Characters | Concepts | |
