Ender's Game

Maturity does not necessarily deepend on age it is reached through experience. In Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggen is a child military prodigy who attains maturity at a young age because of the situations he experiences and the challenges he surmounts. He is constantly learning and in the end he finds himself as an adult trapped in a child’s body. Ender is always dealing with conditions throughout his whole life …

…he matures with empathy. He takes the pupa to be cared for because he knows that these two races can one day live in harmony. Ender grasps maturity through his experiences. Whether it be that he comes to understand the ways of others, or see something no human has seen before. Ender is proof that it doesn’t take age to mature; it is a learning process in which understanding leads the way to adulthood.