In the book Ender's game, by Orson Scott Card, we are told the story of a boy named Andrew Wiggins. In this story, Card tells us of a time when the earth was attacked twice by an intelligent alien life form. The people of the earth were afraid that they would not survive a third attack, and decided to form an alliance to fight the aliens that looked like insects. .
In the first few chapters, Orson Scott Card subtly relates to us the power of the government in this unknown time. He starts the story when Andrew, also known as Ender, has a monitor removed from his neck at the age of six. The government is looking for children, that have certain qualities about them, and one child in particular that will one day be able to command armies and lead the earth to victory in their fight with the "Buggers", which is what they call the aliens. To do this, the government attaches monitors to each child's neck that monitors everything the child sees, hears, and feels. Usually the removal of the monitor means that the child has failed, and will not be going to battle school. In Ender's case, the monitor was removed because they wanted to see how he would react to things once it was removed. Ender had passed every test so far, and the government was sure that he was "the one". When the monitor was removed, Ender thought that Peter, his older brother, wouldn't hate him any more. Peter's monitor was removed when he was five, and hated Ender because he still had his at the age of six. Ender was also an outcast because he was the third child in his family, and the government only allowed families to have two children. The government allowed the birth of Ender, only because his brother and his sister had both almost been chosen to be trained to command the third attack. This caused the other children to hate him, He was "a third", an unwanted child. With the removal of the monitor, Ender was no longer protected.