...Just like any other superhero who rescues Earth, but without any superpowers. Ender Wiggin is the savior of the Earth. Therefore, he is a hero who was born as a third in his family. He was selected by the International Military Forces to save the world from the buggers at the age of six. Ender is a genius so he made it through the Battle School and to the Command School. He commanded his fleet in the simulations and won most of the battles. In his final battle, he destroyed them all for good, but the simulations turned out to be real battles with the buggers. Ender became the hero who saved humanity, but simultaneously he wiped out an entire species of the buggers as it is mentioned in both the book and the movie. The movie and the book, Ender’s Game share the same plot, yet they also have several differences.The movie fails to show some of the important facts that the book discloses; therefore, the book is way better than the movie....
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...A lot of people have seen the exciting movie Ender’s Game (2013), but have they read the book? Although, the movie is an awesome science fiction action film, the book is much better. The movie is easier to follow. The book has far more detail and captures your attention. The book talks more about Ender’s relationship with his family which helps you to understand him better. The movie has scenes that entertain using special effects which are exciting to watch. Both the book and the movie have their strengths and their weaknesses. If you really want to be a part of the story, you should read the book. The most compelling reason to read the book is that the book puts more detail and story into its characters. There are differences in the characters in the way they are represented in the movie and the book. In the book, Bean is small but in the movie Bean is a lot bigger. During one of their battles Bean uses one of the biggest kids as a shield to take out the enemy forces. It is hard to see this in the movie, but the book explains it very well. In the book, Bean spends most of his time hiding in the air vents. This is evidence that Bean must have been small. But, in the movie Bean is nearly the size of Ender. The book also describes how Ender was rather mean to Bean. Eventually, they became great friends. The movie shows them as friends from the start, but never really shows much of how Ender treated Bean or shows why. They just one day become friends. Another thing is...
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...Mysterious Disappearance of Locke and Demosthenes Ender’s Game is a well known science-fiction genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many books that are adapted into movies, fans and critics usually side with the book being a better portrayal of the story than the movie version. Dennis Schwartz, a movie critic from Ozus' World Movie Reviews, expresses his views on the comparison between the movie and book by writing, “Might have worked as a clever thought-provoking read, on film it's a drag” (Schwartz). This common occurrence of the book being better than the movie can be easily explained by remembering that a movie should usually stay around the two hour time mark and that money is a big factor in adapting a book. The major differences between the book and the movie are that Ender’s timeline is completely changed, Ender is portrayed to be a more likable character, and that the cutaways back to Earth with Ender’s siblings Peter and Valentine are completely cut...
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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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