Interesting. The author of that article sees Ender as very empathetic, and marvels that someone like Card could have written him. I disagree. 1) I don't think

Interesting. The author of that article sees Ender as very empathetic, and marvels that someone like Card could have written him. I disagree. 1) I don't think Ender was a particularly empathetic character, and 2) authors are not their characters. A little piece of me lives inside each of my main characters, but I don't necessarily see the world the same way my characters do. Card was an adult when he wrote about Ender Wiggin. He might have drawn from his childhood experiences, but he was not Ender.