![]() ![]() Card also likely included the buggers in the story to serve as a political scapegoat. As quoted in “Kill the Bugger,” literary analyst Norma Spinrad said, “It is difficult to believe that Card was unaware of the obvious sexual connotations when he named the aliens the ‘buggers’” (493). Ender is instructed to violently murder all of these buggers, which implies Card’s desire to eliminate all homosexuals. The word “bugger” is a British slang term for either a male homosexual or a practice of sodomy. He is instructed to save Earth from the aliens who inhabit it, called the “buggers.” Implied by the title of the response article, the term “bugger” is perhaps the most obvious of signs. Ender’s Game tells the story of Ender Wiggin, a six-year-old boy who is recruited to attend Battle School to train to command an army to attack a foreign planet. ![]() In the article “Kill the Bugger: Ender’s Game and the Question of Heteronormativity,” author James Campbell mentions several subtleties that, when read closely, point to Card’s continued insults towards homosexuals. ![]()
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