Article Title：Orson Scott Card's Ender and bean: The exceptional child as hero
Abstract：
Orson Scott Card's school stories in outer space, Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, purportedly occur at the same time and tell the same story, but from the perspectives of two different child protagonists. Scenes in Ender's Shadow even reproduce text from Ender's Game. Nevertheless, 14 years elapsed between the publications of the two books. This essay brings child studies and exceptionality research to bear on the two novels, analyzing the development of Card's ideology regarding his view of the exceptional child and his view of the nature of heroism in a post-modern world.
Keywords: Orson Scott Card; Ender's game and Ender's shadow; school stories; Howard Gardner; multiple intelligence theory; exceptionality; science fiction
DOI: 10.1007/s10583-004-6415-0
Source：CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION
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