What interests me most is thinking about Card's religious beliefs and how they might be reflected in the book.

There is always a plan for Ender. Everything bad that happens to him along the way is making him fit for his destiny-- like how the teachers purposefully isolate him and pit bullies against him. It all adds up to him becoming this great commander and strategist and in the end he is totally spent, but he "fulfilled his destiny" and did this thing he'll be remembered for forever. "Everything happens for a reason."

But then it turns out that he was used for something horrific because of others' misunderstandings, fears of the unknown, and other human faults. They weren't God at all.

And now humanity has obliterated another species. Maybe how we are destroying each other and the Earth?

I don't know. I will say that how Card wort this book and is also a homophobe is baffling to me. That and the sexist undertone present in all the Ender books really bothers me, but I still like the books.