...Ender’s Game: Book or Movie? Kill it! Kill this bug with fire! Imagine if those bugs were huge, human like, size. That is what the buggers in the book and movie Ender’s Game would look like. Ender’s Game is about a little boy named, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin. He trained in battle school to prepare for the war against the buggers. He was promoted to go to command school where he was trained by Mazer Rackham. Ender ended up beating the buggers for good and made Commander Graff happy. While Ender was wanting to run away in disappointment, he came across a queen bugger egg and decided to fly across the universe in search of a new home. The book Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scottcard, and the movie “Ender’s Game”, directed by Gavin Hood, have many similarities and many differences. The story of Ender Wiggin begins when he, an extremely smart boy for his age, was recruited to battle school to train and fight the buggers. He meets friends and foes along the way....
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... there was still many facts about space travel that scientists were not yet aware of. Orson Scott Card wrote Ender’s Game , a futuristic book where the main setting is in space, in 1985. He then rewrote it in 1991 to better the accuracy of certain facts throughout the book. As time went on, scientists continued to discover the realities of space travel; therefore, Card would need to update facts about how people age in space, traveling at the speed of light, and the effects of space travel on the human body to, once again, make Ender’s Game an accurate novel. Though people in space age slower than humans on earth, they only gain 0.007 seconds of extra life over a period of six months. The most important difference between aging on earth and aging in space is the aging process. This process typically includes bones becoming brittle, blood vessels hardening, muscles wasting away, joints stiffening up, bowels turning irritable, bladders becoming unpredictable, teeth decaying, vision growing dim, and skin wrinkling up. Jessika Toothman explains this when she says, “While for most people, it takes decades to really feel the effects of the aging process, humans stationed in space experience some of them in fast forward.” In order to help make Ender’s Game more accurate, Orson Scott Card would need to Fields 2 change the way Mazer Rackham aged. “‘Why aren’t you dead?’ Ender asked him. ‘You fought your battle seventy years ago. I don’t think you’re even...
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...In the story “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card the setting takes place on Earth which has been devastated by two intergalactic wars between the humans and the Formics with Earth’s citizen’s afraid there will be another war. The main character, Ender, grows up in a post war era learning about the defeat of the Formics after the first invasion and the second invasion which was considered a miracle. He idolizes Mazer Rackham on how he defeated the Formics in the second war. He has seen the videos of Mazer Rackham defeating the Formics multiple times. After the 1st Formic Invasion the Formics got the nickname of buggers because of their exoskeleton appearance and similarities between the Formics and bugs. This is meant to be an insult to the Formics....
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...Is Ender Wiggin their last chance at saving humanity? Maybe one of the many questions one can ask himself while reading Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. In the book, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is placed in a difficult situation. Although he overcomes the situation, it did not affect his identity. Ender had to learn to cope with the things that have happened to him. At the age of six, Ender was taken and placed in battle school. Unlike most of his peers, Ender is isolated from almost everyone else and advances more quickly. This causes a majority of his peers and commanders to develop an animosity towards him. However, Ender does begin to make friends who genuinely care for him. While Ender thinks everything is going well, the administrators decide to make him a commander...
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...species!” Shouted Ender. His anger and disappointment in himself became too much for him to handle. The spectators were cheering in excitement, but the problem was still intact. The game pushed Ender over the edge, he was in shock, and panic, and distraught from what just happened. Ender’s Game is a story of a six-year-old boy named, Ender, trying to save mankind from the “buggers”, which are essentially aliens. He was instructed to leave earth and his family to participate in battle school where he learned to kill and fight in the Third Invasion of the aliens and humans. On his journey, he learns the tactics and rules for war through games the government controls. Ender is thought to be the chosen one: to save the planet from complete destruction. The movie is very similar to the book, but the book is better in multiple ways because it is more descriptive, less confusing, and explains what the characters are feeling in a better manner. Ender is qualified to be one of the smartest kids on the planet, the way his brain thinks and processes things, he has no match for competition. In the...
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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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...Ender's Game 8th Grade Literature Summary: Fifty years before the story takes place, the Formics attacked Earth. If not for the legendary Commander, Mazer Rackham, the human race would have been destroyed. To prepare for the next attack, Colonel Graff and the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future hero. Ender (Andrew) Wiggin, a shy but brilliant six year old boy, is recruited to join this program. Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters difficult challenges and simulations, winning respect amongst his peers and teachers. Ender is soon chosen by Graff as the military's great hope, and he is promoted to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham himself. He runs several “simulations” thinking he is training for when he became a commander himself, however, he is really directing real missions through a machine called an Ansible. While thinking he was running a simulation as a graduation battle, he attacks the Formics’ home planet, and annihilates the entire race. When he finds out that the whole thing was real, he goes into a state of depression. In the barren land outside command school, Ender sees a shape that resembles something he had seen in dreams, and in a psychological mind game. He goes to it, and sees a Formic queen pupa, and makes it his mission to find the Formics a new home planet. Essay: The novel Ender's game holds a variety of events and actions by different characters that are...
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...are multiple occurrences of compassion throughout the book. In the novel Ender’s Game the author Orson Scott Card uses foreshadowing to strongly support the theme of compassion that is portrayed by Ender. In this novel there are multiple occasions where the theme compassion is expressed by Ender. The game tends to mess with Ender’s mind and memories. Ender’s most precious memories are of his sister, Valentine, and they know that so it is used to Ender’s disadvantage when expressed in the book, “As always the serpent waited in the tower room, unraveling itself from the rug on the floor. But this time Ender didn’t grind it underfoot. This time he caught it in his hands, knelt before it, and gently, so gently, brought the snake’s gaping mouth to his lips. And kissed. . . . And the snake in his hand thickened and bent into...
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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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...and conquer a strange new world while he himself undergoes fundamental transformation. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game showcases aspects to the Journey of the Hero because Ender leaves his home on Earth, overcomes Battle School, and emerges from the war a hero to the people on Earth. Before Ender arrives to Battle School, Colonel Graff is a guide that assists Ender by initiating the journey, who then overcomes his first challenge...
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...Book Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Summary: The setting of this story is many years in the future during a time of intergalactic war. An alien race called the Formics attacked the humans 50 years before the beginning of the story. The humans won that war but the Formics have regrouped and have been preparing to strike again. The humans have been preparing for the second attack by taking the brightest children of Earth into a special school, called Battle School, in outer space to train them in battle and command tactics. Their plan is for the children to lead the human army to victory against the Formics. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is six years old attending regular school on Earth and is having his Monitor removed. In the future, all kids were required to have a “Monitor” implanted in them so that the International Fleet could keep tabs on potential Battle School applicants. Most kids only have theirs for about a year but Ender has had his for three and is constantly ridiculed by classmates about it. At the end of the day, Ender is leaving school and going home when some bullies from school came and started harassing him about finally having his Monitor removed. Ender decides that he has had enough of the bullying and assaults Stilson, the leader of the bullies and the one who tortured Ender the most. Ender beat Stilson to the ground and continued to beat him to ensure that he never...
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...In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggins, the main character, faces many challenges in his journey through the Battle School. Ender is different than most other kids; he is a savant, he is small, and he is a third. Wiggins possesses tremendous knowledge and mental capabilities. He is able to process and think faster and more accurately than most other children in the world. Ender is smaller than most other children, he is supposedly defenseless, which makes him lesser than most of the other children who supposedly have superior rankings to him. Lastly, he is a third, the third born of a family, the title that all children fear and hate, the title of shame and rejection. These differences that Ender faces torments him through his childhood, but in the end, make him victorious in the challenges to come. During the setting of Ender's Game, the world had been attacked by aliens called the Buggers. Through the first attack, Earth was heavily damaged and very vulnerable. However, a great man called Mazer Rackham, a savant, led the armies of Earth against the Buggers in the second attack, and defeated them. Since then, the government of planet Earth searched for children who were smart enough and capable enough to live up to Rackham's success and aid in the destruction of the Buggers. After many years, Ender was born, and he was the smartest that was ever born. He possessed the mental capabilities that most adults never even dreamed of reaching. But most of all, he was a true leader, the truest...
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