the Mood

The mood of the book Ender's Game is depressing, stressful, and desperate. The stress also made me extremely stressed while I was just reading. It mostly came from all the pressure and fatigue Ender felt when he was manipulated and pushed by the teachers. The burdensome and extremely challanging battles and games just never seemed to end. It kept coming and coming with more difficulty as time progressed. The rules were broken and going crazy while everything was so complex. Ender had to go through all this, as a commander and soldier, plus the isolation he had to face. Graff planned Ender to be isolated continuously; adding on to that, there was an "anti-Ender" group who seriously wanted to kill him. Bonzo and his cronies and friends all loathed Ender so that made Ender's isolation much more deeper. All of these obstacles made the mood stressful for Ender and the reader; they also describe how the atmosphere was also depressing. But how the Battle School and Command School felt so cold contributed to the depression. It seemed like there were no warm feelings anywhere Ender went. There was no affection at all. It was just all battles, battles, games, games. As for the desperate mood, it's because the book gradually gets more and more tense. The games get more and more stressful and difficult. The world needs Ender more and more. Everything was and went in a hurry. During the last battle, the mood was especially urgent.
However, I never found the novel saddening. Just because the atmosphere was depressing, anxious, and urgent, it doesn't mean that the atmosphere was sad. Sad, to me, means tears or death. This novel was just tense and full of pressure.