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Comparing Ender's Game And The Day Earth Stood Still

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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. In the Ender’s Game most of the story takes place in space or on planets other than Earth. An example of this is, “There was also …show more content…

In both the book and the movie the humans look weak, either because there are less of them or their technology is primitive compared to the aliens. On advantage the buggers had is instantaneous communication. “There communication...is instantaneous.”(Card 249) There were many billions of buggers all with instant communication, but they lacked individual creativity. Ender’s team of commanders excelled at this and were able to wipe out the bugger planet in one shot. While in, The Day Earth Stood Still, human technology was stick and stone against Klatoo’s technology. This made the humans jealous and they sought out ways to kill Klatoo. In both works of fiction, humans are shown as the underdogs but they still end up ‘winning’. The last similarity is that the aliens end up being ‘defeated’ by the humans. In Ender’s Game the bugger species is wiped out by Ender. He says, “I didn’t want to kill them all.”(Card 297) Ender hadn’t known he had just murdered a whole species by himself, and therefore it was technically an accident, but what had been done can’t be redone. In the movie the humans try to kill Klatoo but Gort ends up saving him, even if only for the time being. He dies while trying to give the message to Earth.The reason they tried to kill him was because he made the Earth stand still, therefore the government decided to kill

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When dividing the book and movie of Enders Game into sections, we can clearly see that the movie was far more better than the book, at least visually. Not only did the movie show us greater details than the book, it also gave us an idea of what the characters and settings looked like. Some scenes that prove that the movie is richer in quality than the book; is the fight with the buggers at the beginning, the battle room scene with salamander and leopard army, and when Ender goes on the Bugger 's planet to talk to the queen. Let 's begin from the movie with the scene of the bugger 's invasion. At the beginning of the movie, we see the Formics ' (buggers) attacking Earth.

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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.

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Over the year, we have read four different stories that each has had unique stories and messages that go along with them and enhance the stories. The four books that we have read are Ender’s Game, The Odyssey, Night, and Romeo and Juliet. Two of the stories that we read were the books Ender’s Game and Romeo and Juliet. Both of the stories have different plots, they have similar themes, and their main characters have some similarities between them.

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HE never wanted to kill the buggers he wanted to see if the war was a mistake or misunderstanding. He wanted to talk to the buggers and figure them out. Ender’s ability to see patterns as shown through his ability to reorient his gravitational angle, his great ability to think like the enemy and see from the enemy’s perspective,through his ability to innovate unique battle strategies.

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This difference weakened the movie because less of Ender’s struggles were depicted and there was less conflict to catch the viewer’s attention. These parts were left out of the movie mainly to save time. Another difference between the movie and book was the drama and conflict that followed after the Bugger World was destroyed. In the book, there is a conflict that occurs on the space station between the Russians and parts of the I.F. The conflict ended with the Locke Treaty that was proposed by Peter.

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Ender’s Game Outline Thesis Statement: Ender Wiggins is a bad person because he destroys and entire race, cares more about winning than his soldiers’ well-being, and hurts and even kills people. I. Topic sentence: Ender Wiggins is a bad person because he intentionally destroys a whole race. a. Evidence #1: He blows up and entire planet b. Evidence #2: He frequently fantasizes about killing buggers and agrees to go to a school specifically intended to train him to destroy them. c. Analysis: The fact that Ender is able to destroy a whole race without even thinking about it twice shows that he is cold-hearted. He is able to commit mass murder which is one of the many traits of being a bad person.

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During the flight to the Battle School, he showed everyone that he is brilliant by explaing the law of gravity. However, Graff isolated him from the other students. Ender started living with his recruits, Launchies. When they went to the battleroom, Ender figured out how to move around in zero gravity with another member named Alai. Alai helped Ender to fit in with the rest of the group and that way Ender ended his isolation.

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This lessens the scope of how much the International Fleet has been lying to Ender, leading to the reveal being less dramatic. The movie also completely erases the Locke and Demosthenes subplot, removes the epilogue of Ender moving to a colony with Valentine, and then replaces it with Ender finding the queen bugger’s egg on the same planet as the Command School and leaving to find a safe home for it. This also gets rid of the parallel between Ender and Peter at the end of the book, where it’s pointed out that in spite of Peter being portrayed as exceedingly cruel, he prevents the war on Earth which saves millions of lives. Ender kills billions of buggers in the Third Invasion, almost wiping out their race completely, despite being described as gentle and not wanting to hurt anyone. The movie’s tendency to cut anything not deemed an important event also makes it seem that Ender is unaffected by most of the events that occur.

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After he destroys the alien species, he is told that it was all real and he breaks down. The valuable lessons that Ender learns from this victory helped make the book such a successful one that won

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After going into space for battle training, he becomes isolated from the other students immedetaly. Ender overcoming challenges finally begins to be accepted by the other students, only to be transferred and isolated again.

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Orson Scott Card’s use of symbolism in Ender’s Game demonstrates the central concept of games vs. reality. Ender is the only student to be introduced to an uncharted area of the Fantasy Game; designed to reflect an individual's life and mind. The future of Earth and humankind appears to lie on Ender as he faces the “End of the World”. Unceasingly, Ender proves he is willing to fall into the abyss, but without the hope of surviving. In many of his battles and in the bugger war, Ender disregarded the rules and does his best to go “down”, saving the world and bringing his comrades up from devastation.

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Without the bugger war, Ender would not have been born, and he realizes this fact. Interestingly enough, the reader never directly see’s the war against the buggers. The only war ever seen directly is the other war that Ender fights every day – the war against the teachers games, against the other kids, against his fear of becoming his brother, against the instinct that drives Ender to hurt other people. Ender’s entire life is made up of these little battles. Ender finds his identity in the battles that he fights and the challenges that he over comes.

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End them or end us. But heaven knows there was no other way you could’ve done it,” (Card pg.296). This shows that Mazer knew that if they had done nothing during the fight against the bugger humanity would be in danger because the buggers would’ve came back to wipe out humanity. This also shows that inaction leads to loss because Mazer said that it was, “all or nothing”, which meant that they could do everything they could and win or do nothing and lose. These quotes prove that inaction leads to loss because throughout Ender’s Game the characters like Ender and Mazer have been through battles where they know that if they don’t do anything at all

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