How is the theory of relativity related to Enders Game?

I have to write an essay on this or the patriot act explaining and exemplifying in great detail how its related to enders game , could anyone do me the honor and walk me through on how enders game relates with relativity :)|||Little relation, since in Ender's Game, we had FTL drive.|||I think its more described in the sequels where Ender travels through space and time to him is only a few weeks but to everyone else its about 30 years per trip. When Ender finally dies it is about 3000 years after his birth but he is only like a seventy year old man or something.

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|||It has been years since I read Enders Game and I don't remember the plot. Give me a short re-cap of the plot and I will give it a shot



OK, I looked it up. Since you mentioned the Patriot Act in the same question and I don't remember Einstein's theories being a driving plot device, I think you are asking about Moral, Ethical Relativity in War. Are there ethical limits to what a moral person can do in war? Are you allowed to target civilians? Are you allowed to kill children? What if a 5 year old child is approaching your foxhole with a hand grenade? Do you shoot her? You are on patrol in enemy territory and discovered by unarmed sheepherders. Do you kill them? If you don't, there is high probability that they will tell the enemy where you and your patrol are. If you do, you are killing unarmed civilians that might not tell the enemy where you are.



Ender is a brilliant military tactician that was selected to be trained as a child to be a military leader. The training involves playing games. He excels at this and moves up to more and more complicated games. Finally he wins a game by breaking the rules. The result is in the game the enemy is completely destroyed (genocide!). He then finds out that it was not a game, he actually commanded a battle that destroyed a whole race (He is guilty of genocide,). But, the enemy was a deadly and competent foe. Did he do the right thing? Is genocide OK, if the enemy is deadly and relentless (They were insect like. We would kill all the mosquitoes if we could.) He then finds out that one member of the race he killed survived and lived to tell him that the fact he won the battle proved to the enemy that humans were salient. The enemy's high moral code requires that they never wage war against humans again. (Is the enemy lying? They are a deadly foe, what is the moral, ethical thing to do?) The war was so bloody that there is strong (as in "Kill'em all and let God sort them out.") feeling that should it ever leak out that one of the enemy survived, humans would kill her too. Ender wants to do the right thing, save a salient race, not be guilty of genocide. He sets out to find a safe planet to re-establish the enemy race.



Have fun. It is a complex issue.