...“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” -Orson Scott card, Enders game. Ender's Game is a book about a boy’s struggle in the future to take down humanity's biggest enemy, The Buggers. Ender struggles throughout the entire book learning what the enemy does, and their weaknesses. However, Ender has a challenging time destroying his enemy because at the point where he understands them enough to destroy them, he loves his enemy and has no desire to. There are two ways you can experience The Enders Game: you can either read the book or view the movie. The book is far superior to the movie because it includes more detail. In the book we get to see far more of who ender is and his struggles, rather than just the superficial details the movie gives to us....
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...Ender's Game vs A series of Unfortunate Events Ender's Game and Unfortunate Events, both seem as if they are so far away that there cannot possibly be similarities between the two, right? Incorrect, the two pieces of writing actually have more in common than meets the eye. Ender’s Game comes from the perspective and life of a young boy who gets chosen to go to a space academy to enlist in a kind of war. In Unfortunate Events it follows three orphans on a journey of miscommunication, confusion, death, and depression. Those descriptions may sound vividly and wildly diverse and could be far from similar, but if we go deeper into the stories, they will prove to be very similar. In Ender’s Game, Ender is taken away from his family, and his...
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...This summer I read the books Ender’s Game and From Baghdad with Love. The book Ender’s Game is about a six year old kid named Ender Wiggin. In this book Ender is called upon by the army to start training in Battle School. In Battle School Ender has to overcome his age and how he is being treated. Ender embarks on this journey so he could eventually save the human species from an alien attack. The book From Baghdad with Love is about a Lieutenant Colonel named Jay Kopelman. At the beginning of the book Jay Kopelman and his squad find a stray puppy in a abandoned house. They adopt this puppy and name it Lava even though it contradicts the Army’s rules to adopt or keep a puppy. On Jay Kopelman's Journey to get Lava home he faces many obstacles...
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...Bernard is watching. - God" He sends the message "Bernard is living proof that they still send chimps into space." Bernard is friends with Bonzo and is with him when Ender kills him in the shower. He is not seen after that. Bernard bullies Ender, but eventually he joins Ender's jeesh. Ender breaks Bernard's arm when they are on the shuttle to battle school which leads Bernard to bully him. This doesn't happen. Peter was the character Locke there were no "Locke" character Valentine was the character Demosthenes. there were no "Demosthenes" character There were major parts which focused on Peter and Valentines involvement with politics no talk/plot of politics between Peter and Valentine After having his monitor removed he fought a bigger boy and Ender killed him we never learn of the boys fate but he appeared mostly OK. Ender fought Bonzo at Battle School he killed him. Bonzo was hurt and had a brain injury but lived. Ender never played the boy (he ended up fighting) at school before his monitor was removed. Ender played the boy (he ended up fighting) at school before his monitor was removed. In Battle School there is an arcade where students play strategy games. Not ever a mention of an arcade at BattleSchool but it is where Ender spent time soon after his arrival at BattleSchool There are more than 1 battle room. there is only...
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...Ender’s Game Ender Wiggin is a special six year old boy sent to a special military school simply for the honor of the way he handles himself. The Government sees the great potential in Ender and sees the possibility of him being the one to save the world from the buggers (huge alien insects who almost wiped out all of humankind once upon a time). Everyone selected to go to this military school is to never contact their family ever again until they are eighteen. His brother Peter was jealous of the fact that Ender became a third longer than he did and punished him all the time by beating on Ender whenever the chance arose. Ender has a sister named Valentine who by her name you could guess she was the love and good in Ender’s life. Their bond was of the strongest thing that Ender had to remembering the outside world. His brother Peter talks Valentine into using her special skills of persuasion to help him get the audience of the people to recognize his intelligence in order to try and gain a seat of power to run the world. They are all VERY gifted children; in fact most of these kids are not your ordinary six, seven, and eight year olds in this novel. The government is searching for that one leader who will help them be prepared and ready to win a war against a fearsome opponent (buggers). In that, the ones who actually make it to battle school are put in battles against each other in order for the government to test the potential in every kid that is attending in...
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...Ender’s ability to defeat an entire alien race was not done by himself. The people that he was surrounded by had a substantial impact on his intelligence and overall personality. Colonel Graff’s out of the box thinking laid down the stepping-stones that would allow Ender to become the great military leader and strategist that helped him defeat the buggers. Graff made many difficult decisions that seemed irrelevant at the time but proved very critical to Ender’s success. Mazer Rackham didn’t have much time to mould Ender into what the world needed, however he used the time that was given to him very effectively. Mazer modeled Ender after himself because he himself had once defeated the buggers single headedly just like Ender was born to do. The person of utmost importance to Ender is his sister Valentine. She not only shaped him into a great leader but her opinion was also the only other opinion that Ender listened to other than his own. She was the only person that could convince Ender to use his talents to save human kind from the bugger’s As the earth became overly populated, a rule was put in place that one family could have no more than two kids. The Wiggin family was an exception to that rule due to the overlying potential of their two previous children in Peter and Valentine. Although Peter and Valentine both showed signs of incredible intelligence, Peter was deemed to be too violent and Valentine too empathic. The International Fleet hoped that by the Wiggin family giving...
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...homework or clean your room, but what if it was something damaging? What if you were forced to kill of an entire race or species? Ender Wiggin had to do just that at only eleven years of age. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game demonstrates forcing children to go into wars and genocide, which have been issues in many other countries. Card presents genocide and forcing children to fight in wars through the character Ender; an eleven-year-old boy who is imposed into fighting and wiping out the whole bugger species. Card writes, “‘… You won every battle, and today you finally fought them at their home world, where the queen was, all the queens from all their colonies, they all were there and you destroyed them completely…’”(297). In this conversation, Ender realizes that it wasn’t a game, and all of the attacks he enforced were real. He actually committed genocide, something he clearly did not want to do. Another example is, “ ‘Of course we tricked you into it. That’s the whole point,’ said Graff. ‘It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it… But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing to win at all costs. If you knew, you couldn’t do it…’”(Card 298). With this detail, it shows that this was not Ender’s choice and that he did not want to harm anyone. Graff tricked Ender into doing this because deep down everyone knew that Ender could not really do it. However, a child had to lead the battle. “ ‘And it had to be...
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...Picture this: a game that you have been playing for one year has just been revealed to you as being real. Everything that you did in that “game” has also happened in real life. That is exactly what happened to Ender in Chapter 14 of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. In Ender’s “simulator”, he had destroyed an entire species, known in the book as “buggers”. Immediately after this revelation, Ender felt regret that he had killed the buggers, and also anger that he was manipulated into doing something against his will by his superiors, the adults. The way that Command School authorities handled Ender’s situation was wrong because they had manipulated Ender into fighting their battle against his own free will. Moreover, Colonel Graff and the IF hurt other, innocent and uninvolved students to achieve their ends....
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...Ender has the kills. Buggers begin a high trill. Ender has to win. This haiku gives brief insight into the story, Ender's Game. Ender's Game is about a brilliant young boy who is called upon to save Earth. He faces many internal and external trials and tribulations on his journey to becoming a commander of an army. The young boy, Ender must face hordes upon hordes of alien enemies. Both the book and movie portray the story in their own unique ways and have many similarities and differences between them. Ender's Game the book is better than the movie, because of key points missing in the movie. To illustrate the story of Ender's Game properly there are certain key ideas and points that are needed. Furthermore an idea that is crucial to the...
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...encourages to approach the gameplay with what Koster would describe a “grokked” internalization of how to master action games. With no overt narrative or goal, the player has no understanding of the correct way to master the game. The game is then an experiment on the mediation of the player over the purposely, undefined rules. The sudden emergence of the orange comet colliding into the player’s purple comet unwarranted suggests the onset of an enemy. The orange comet is a non-playable, unidentified, questionable player. The initial bash or thump brings forth the game-like concern with maintaining health and lives. However, if the purple comet pursues the orange and manages to collide into it, nothing is gained on...
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...Ruthlessness in Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card wrote, “It was forbidden to strike the opponent who lay helpless on the ground; only an animal would do that. So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him, again, viciously, in the ribs,” (Card 7). Right and wrong in the eyes of a child can become mixed and almost indistinguishable at times. Ruthlessness tends to be classified “wrong” and plays into Ender’s story as a theme. It can be considered necessary in situations; however, Ender often participates in instances in which it cannot be justified. Ruthlessness, necessary or unnecessary, causes major decisions to be made which influence the overall plot, character behavior, and character development. Graff, Peter, and Ender have proven...
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...After a short six years of torment from his genius older brother Peter, and love from his genius older sister Valentine, Ender is recruited into the army after passing tests, and quickly rises to the top of the class. Loved and hated by other students at Battle School, Ender is isolated by his success, in the games that the students play, and by his teachers treatment of his excellence. The adults do not give him the chance to settle in and find a peer group instead they push him with such urgency that they are willing to break the entire Battle School system down. Colonel Graff, the one who found and groomed Ender, runs Battle School and risks his reputation, and humanity's existence, on his strong belief that Ender is the one who can defeat the Buggers. Battle School consists of games. there is a Fantasy Game, a game room (like an arcade), and the battle room, where war games are played in zero gravity. The battle room plays a key role in Battle School, and students often get so caught up in the game that they seldom realize that they're at the school to defeat the Buggers. One such student, Bonzo Madrid, comes to hate Ender, and Bonzo plans to kill him. Ender's excellence pulls through in battle after battle, despite being given a green army and the most intense schedule ever given an army. Bonzo's rage turns murderous, and they fight in the...
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...they but on the back of these peoples necks to see if they are a good candidate to be a general to fight the buggers. The buggers are aliens. Well, since he is not monitored anymore people who have always wanted to fight him can now fight them. He ends up winning all of the fights and he goes home. As it turns out taking off his monitor was a test to see how he would handle people that fight him. A general then explains that he want to send Ender to battle school so he can learn how to fight in space. Ender decides to go. When he gets there he finds out that it is very tough. He ends up killing 2 kids and breaking count less numbers of bones in the 4 years that he is there. While he is there he plays a virtual reality game. When he beats the game the computer makes up a place called the end of the world. There are some very disturbing things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then goes to command school were he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is his final mission before they grade him. He up agents a whole planet and a vast number of ships. He ends up winning by using a secret weapon on the planet that blows it up. When he finishes the battle he realizes that everyone is cheering behind him. When he asks why they tell him that all of his missions were real ones against...
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...Cayla Rosenbaum English II – 2 10/7/14 Ender Wiggin: The Boy Who Could. When thinking of a powerful commander with the correct intellect and skill to save the world, I doubt anyone pictures an eleven year old. However, Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Cards novel Ender’s Game is not your typical, brainless eleven year old. In fact, he shows more courage, capability, and adaptability than most middle-aged adults. Using these raw skills Ender Wiggin saves the world at the fresh age of eleven. Ender shows multiple examples of courage throughout the book specifically in chapter fourteen when Ender makes the ruthless yet courageous decision to blow the bugger home planet to pieces. “Then he whispered a command and the ships dropped like rocks toward the planet’s surface…. Almost from the moment they began to drop they were focusing their Little Doctors on one thing only. The Planet itself” (294). Young Ender wasn’t expected to go so far as to blow the planet itself up, but because of his courage he went above and beyond all expectations. Because of Ender’s courageous personality he is completely capable of the task at hand. In fact Ender had been showing signs of capability since he was six. “Ender knew the unspoken rules of manly warfare, even though he was six.” (7). Ender unknowingly used his “knowledge of manly warfare” to show his capability of being the next commander and saving the world five years later by literally beating the young boy into a pulp, to show the others...
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...Orson Scott Card explains things in the book the director never could accomplish throughout the movie. Ender Wiggen could not be portrayed as well as he was in the book and the initial box office sales shows that, this movie was not successful and the book was revolutionary everyone can agree to that. Ender’s Game revolutionized the way we viewed the future and made us realize the true problems or enemies of society may not be what you think they are. Throughout the book you are entertained by Ender’s trials & tribulations and will eventually end content with his conquest. Ender’s Game has many staple ideas throughout the story and many of them are important for us to know. Ender learns that you never know the truth behind a situation, there are always other people in control manipulating the final outcome. The Buggers were known to be the enemy worldwide eventually you will find out that everything is not as it seems. The main goal of Ender and the International Fleet is to completely destroy the Bugger civilization so they never will be able to retaliate again, Ender does not know the whole story and never will until the end of it all. Ender Wiggen does not stand alone, Valentine his beloved sister will always be there for him through the ups and downs created by the adults to form their “perfect world”, his family is very important to him but...
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