Abstract :
Alice Miller’s work provides a theoretical framework to assess the effects of child
abuse and its relationship to the development of creativity, hatred, and violence in the novel
Ender’s Game. Analysis focuses on the extent to which children are manipulated in order to
meet the needs of adults, the presence of behaviors such as the repression of feelings and
memories, the idealization of perpetrators, blind obedience to authority, and the expression of
repressed feelings in destructive acts, and identification of a helping witness as predictors for
the actions and outcomes in this story.
