Unlock the Secret to Creating Characters Your Readers Will Never Forget
Can you relate to Ender? Is your life like his in any possible way?
If you’re thinking no, then you can see why this is hard.
So how does Orson Scott Card make you relate to Ender within the first few pages?
By putting Ender in a situation everybody can relate to.
Ender’s First Two Scenes
In the very first scene, which only lasts two pages, Ender has a painful medical procedure. Everyone can relate to that. So the reader is quickly on Ender’s side. The procedure doesn’t go well, but Ender muddles through. If all scenes were like this one, readers would relate to Ender, but they wouldn’t care that much about him. Because so far, Ender hasn’t shown how to rise above his hard situation. But the next scene is different.
