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

The poem For All we Have and Are by Rudyard Kipling examines the sacrifices made in war. Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card, also analyzes the what an individual must deed over up for the natural selection 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 orb War I. For All We Have and Are, is a calling to protect England from a real possibility of falling. Kipling describes an urgent need to fight back, Stand up and manoeuver the war./ The Hun is at the gate He knows that fighting means the loss of life, but he believes it is worth it to defend what is at stake, For all we have and are. 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 the freedoms of a per son to ensure the survival of humanity against the buggers. At Battle School, Graff?s purpose is to train children for mankind to use as tools to fight the buggers. Graff cares for Ender, but he willingly misguides and manipulates him. He takes aside 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 become 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 humanity survives, then we were good tools.?Ender could not truly relate to Kipling?s poem because everything to Ender is distant. In Ender?s world the buggers are not the pressing threat that the primordial 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 neer given an opportunity to be anything 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 basis is worth saving.