Enders Game by Orson Scott Cars is about a boy named Andrew "Ender" Wiggins. Ender is the youngest of three Genius Children in his family, and both Peter and Valentine have worn the same monitor that Ender wore. Though neither had the monitor for as long, and neither were selected to battle school. Battle School is the Military Run training facility the trains soldiers from the time they are children to be efficient and effective soldier for the international fleet. Enders success in being selected to train at battle school angers Peter, and upsets loving Valentine.
Ender’s Game v.s Ender’s Game movie After I read Ender’s Game I watched the movie and I can’t say the movie was bad, but many things in the movie were not relevant at all to the book. The movie was way too short and they fast forwarded too many things. They also dumbed down the twists like when Ender destroys the Buggers when he thought it was a simulation game. It even ditched all the somewhat important things. They must have cut out over 2 hours of plot between every new scene.
Ender’s sister keeps him from getting bullied by his older brother, and she protects Ender whenever she can. Ender keeps going through his training so he can go back and see her. He doesn’t receive any letters from her and thinks she has forgotten about him. The next time Ender sees Valentine, he is tired of fighting and wants to stop. This is when Valentine says, “We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game."
Human Views on Aliens Humans are known to be the most competitive race on Earth, but what do they do when an extraterrestrial race challenges that authority? In the novel Ender’s Game and the movie The Day Earth Stood Still, by Orson Scott Card and Robert Wise respectively, the way humans perceive aliens is usually negative even if the aliens mean no harm. This is important because humans don’t understand that a race that is competing with them might not be trying to harm them, even if they are different. Sometimes these misunderstandings can cause dangerous consequences. The first major difference is the setting.
Evaluating Kessel’s Game Is there a such thing as an innocent killer? Can someone who destroys a planet and commits mass genocide be viewed as a hero? According to John kessel this is attempted in Ender’s Game a science fiction novel written by Orson scott card in 1985. In 2004 Kessel wrote an article titled “Creating the innocent killer Ender's game intention or morality”. In his analysis he comes to the conclusion that Card presents the protagonist, Ender, as a character who is abused, manipulated, sincere, and innocent.
I believe the book Ender’s Game is more exceptional than the film because of the development of characters and events that happens in the book, and the hardship Ender faces to become a great leader against the buggers. Throughout the story of Ender’s Game, Ender is constantly being isolated by Colonel Graff in order for Ender to think, make decisions, and respond to situations by himself. This isolation is to prepare Ender to become a great leader in battle. In the story, Graff orders to have Ender’s monitor taken out to observe how Ender responds to mistreatment from bullies.
In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, Ender is indirectly characterized as being confident and strategic. A specific example of Card’s characterization is when End challenges boys twice his age to play in a video. Ender knows if he loses he will never hear the end of it. Card describes his efforts towards the boys as, “Ender was deft enough to pull off a few new maneuvers that the boy had obviously never seen before… Ender won it quickly and efficiently” (47). Specifically, the word, “deft” highlights Enders calmness and confidence when against the older boys.
Through the comparative study of Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card, and the Wachowski’s film, The Matrix (1999), the meaning of texts is enhanced and thus shows how different texts are still able to reflect similar ideas, and through diverse contexts, shape their representation of these ideas. Both texts explore the notion of privilege in society and an individual’s journey to self-actualisation. Texts are shaped by the value of the context they are composed in and this is evident through the comparison between the two texts, Ender’s Game with child soldiers and Cold wars, in correlation with Matrix where it was a time of globalisation and a rapid technological growth, and when studied together enhance their meaning. Ender’s Game documents
Each of the four stories support a cause for war. “Megahitler” made a case for creating a punishment for one of the greatest villains the world had known. “Combat Unit” dealt with a war time bolo who believed it was captured by the very thing it had gone to battle with. Survival was the very core of “Ender’s Game”. Without war, the world would have not went on.
In the books “Ender’s Game” and “Unbroken” there are many themes, some being of games, others of survival and suffering. However one theme that can be found in both novels is that of the strong impact of war, both during and after it happens. In “Unbroken”, Louis Zamperini created a timeless story with his courage and will to survive through both his tribulations in war and throughout his everyday life. His story includes everything from a childhood full of mischief to an eventual trip to the Olympics.
In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender is continually set up against impossible odds by the International Fleet, which is part of a plan to train Ender to fight in the Third Invasion and end the bugger wars forever. Ender’s trials are portrayed more convincingly in the book, as the book shows him struggling with the expectations placed upon him more so than in the movie. An important theme in Ender’s Game is that Ender is continually kept in the dark about the events happening around him. This theme is prevalent throughout the book, and sets the stage for the book’s climax, the Third Invasion.
Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.
Hook: “At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through” (73). Topic: The life of an adult is not all it 's cracked up to be.
Oh, the People You’ll Help! Take a moment to imagine, living on the streets, your hair is unkempt, hands are dirty, a holey Walmart plastic bag is the only thing holding your meager personal belongings. You are starving with no clue where your next meal is coming from. This is a reality for over 43.6 million Americans living in poverty and are homeless (McClatchy). These Americans struggle emotionally and physically living on the streets, especially with the stress of not knowing when and where they will get their next meal.
When Ender was talking to himself he said,”the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you’re always subject to those who can, and no one will ever save you,”(Card pg.212). This shows that inaction can make people prone to lose against people who have power can have power over them because inaction leaves them open and defenseless to those they could restrain. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Ender is referring to the fight against Stilson, Bonzo, and Bernard because if he had waited for the teachers to respond to call for help they would’ve overpowered him and he would’ve lost. After ender defeated the buggers Mazer Rackham told Ender, “you made the hard choice, boy. All or nothing.
