Ender's Game, too. [spoilers follow] To ensure that the young boy entrusted with the saving of humanity succeeds before he goes insane, the adults spend years (at least a decade), and incredible amounts of money and political power, to manipulate and deceive him and his cohort so that they don't understand the gravity of what they're doing.
> "You had to be a weapon, Ender. Like a gun, like the Little Doctor, functioning perfectly but not knowing what you were aimed at. We aimed you. We're responsible. If there was something wrong, we did it."
> "Tell me later," Ender said. His eyes closed.
> Mazer Rackham shook him. "Don't go to sleep, Ender," he said. "It's very important."
> "You're finished with me," Ender said. "Now leave me alone."
The most-salient parts are excellently dramatized during tracks 9-12 of Julia Ecklar's "Horsetamer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6Lj0OPZAc&list=OLAK5uy_kBD...
It's a shame Ender's Game hasn't received a quality visual adaptation. I think Evangellion being animated helped a lot with it being able to seriously depict children in a dark story.
> "You had to be a weapon, Ender. Like a gun, like the Little Doctor, functioning perfectly but not knowing what you were aimed at. We aimed you. We're responsible. If there was something wrong, we did it."
> "Tell me later," Ender said. His eyes closed.
> Mazer Rackham shook him. "Don't go to sleep, Ender," he said. "It's very important."
> "You're finished with me," Ender said. "Now leave me alone."
The most-salient parts are excellently dramatized during tracks 9-12 of Julia Ecklar's "Horsetamer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6Lj0OPZAc&list=OLAK5uy_kBD...
It's a shame Ender's Game hasn't received a quality visual adaptation. I think Evangellion being animated helped a lot with it being able to seriously depict children in a dark story.