Euphemism In Ender's Game

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In “Ender’s Game”, euphemism is present while the government does not tell Ender the whole truth about his activities, which affects Ender’s actions drastically. When Granger travels to Ender’s house to recruit Ender to help destroy the aliens, he uses lots of euphemism to persuade Ender to come. To convince Ender’s parents that it is safe, he fabricates the truth by saying, “‘War games. All the boys are organized into armies. Day, after day, in zero gravity, there are mock battles’”(Card 24). Granger explains that there is war “games” and “mock” battles, but Ender was actually going to fight buggers. During battles against the buggers, Ender was informed he is fighting other teams and no one will get hurt. So, Ender accepted to fight and