“Not a joke, a game. I can make you believe anything. I can make you dance like puppets” (Card 14). In society there are leaders and followers. Friendship and propaganda are two vehicles of manipulation that demonstrate the relationship between these leaders and followers. The purpose of propaganda in society is to encourage a certain point of view to the public, usually biased in nature and sometimes even providing false information. Friendships, on the other hand, are relationships, or associations, between two or numerous different people. Both possess the ability to directly and indirectly manipulate people. The two ideals can appeal to people's senses in positive and negative ways to influence opinions, perspectives, and actions. Propaganda and friendship are opposites, but their concepts become uniform when they manipulate people's ethos, logos, and pathos to influence another person's ideals and encourage them to want to "fit in." different situations. In friendship and propaganda one person can reflect on another to convince them to change their opinions on a certain topic. In friendship, an involved individual may change their opinions to imitate their friends so as not to lose them or be excluded from their clique. “Children actively want to emulate their peers” (Ulene 2011) and may influence their means and ideals to “fit in” with their social group for fear of not being accepted otherwise. As a result, this leads a person to act on what their friends do, simply because they want to be like them. Likewise, propaganda, presented in the form of posters or advertisements, can easily influence the public. Conte... half of the sheet ......rection. They tend to imitate the behaviors of their peers and adopt the same attitudes” (Ulene 2011). Imitating behaviors can lead to the eventual change of ideals, which is similar to the goal of propaganda, which works to alter one's beliefs. In conclusion, through the presence of ethos, logos and pathos, friendship and propaganda come together and similarly can influence people for favorable or even unfavorable reasons to alter their ideals, decisions and even beliefs. Works CitedCard, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor, 1991. Print.Ulene, Valerie. “A teenager's friends have a powerful influence.” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2011. Web. May 15, 2014.Thomas, T.B. “The Esonian Contribution on the Home Front.” Phillips Exeter Academy. Phillips Exeter Academy, April 1943. Web. 12 May 2014. .