The Three Most Influential People in Ender's Life In the award-winning novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card there are many characters that influence Ender throughout his travels. Ender is influenced in one way or another by just about every person he comes into contact with. Most of these influences, however, are very subtle and do not make a direct or dramatic change in his life. There are three main people that Ender spends a …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…his best at all times, and to never fully trust anybody. In Card's Ender's Game, the use of characters helps to develop Ender's character throughout all his travels. In this particular novel those three characters compose most of Ender's personality traits that he learned while growing up. Ender experienced more in the short 11 years of his life than most people would in 3 or 4 lifetimes, and Ender has Peter, Graff, and Mazar to thank for that.