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No book to movie adaption has ever been described as perfect and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is no exception. Almost every character changed at some point from the book to the movie, whether in regards to personality, physical appearance, or their given amount of screen time. The directors changed the plot noticeably adding in romances and special effects while removing other concepts that failed to translate well on the big screen. Most obviously the use of detail and description isn’t there in the movie. While most readers appreciated Ender’s game for its use of Ender’s perspective thus allowing them to see what he saw, the movie fails to describe that to its audience. The movie captured the action elements of Ender’s Game using Hollywood …show more content…

and the added plot devices for the glamour of an action movie. Cut out plotlines are a major change due to the shortened timeline; primarily the subplot with Ender’s siblings on earth. When reading the book this plotline seemed distracting, but in the movie Valentine and Peter’s decreased role was incredibly obvious. In the effort to make this movie more action packed many smaller scenes were cut from the book. Ender’s tearful goodbye with his family, his training with his launch group during free time, and the several different armies he joined every time he started to make friends were all cut due to the shortened time line. Alai kissing Ender was also cut from the movie but the scene was still included with a more manly pat on the back, so this cut was obviously not due to the shortened time line. Petra was used as a plot device in this movie adding a forced romantic element that wasn’t in the book presumably because in the book she was 5 years older than Ender and romance isn’t usually a big thing for 6 and 11 year olds in the middle of a war. While this fills the void left by subtracting the vaguely incestual relationship between Valentine and Ender, it ruins Petra’s tomboyish character in the effort to make Ender a more macho less gay protagonist. Understandably the movie makers cut many smaller scenes to fit a shortened timeline and took out many problematic elements of the book in favor of a more traditional child romance; however, these cut plot lines took away some of the depth of the book, the cut scenes took away from Ender’s emotional range and strategic genius, and the added romance ruined the only major female character included in the movie

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Alai helps Ender bridge the gap between himself and the rest of his launch group, and even when Ender is promoted to Salamander Army, he and Alai stay friends. Theirs is a friendship that will last through the end of the book. When ender is promoted to Salamander Army, his commander Bonzo Madrid tells Ender to stay out of the way, that he’s not to enter the battles until the first five minutes are over and that he is absolutely not to draw his weapon because he doesn’t know how to use it. Petra Arkanian, the top marksman in Salamander and Ender soon become friends, and she teaches him after regular classes, and battles. This knowledge Ender takes back to his launch group, and teaches them, and gets more practice not only in the maneuvers he’s teaching, but in

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He is a very different character from the other characters in the book. He has his own way of thinking from the other characters he can knows how to handle things that are thrown at him. Mostly the constant pressure. His actions are thought out he just simply knows what he is doing. Ender has a very unique personality no character in this book has personality that relates to his.

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One of these major themes is Ender’s siblings. Peter, his brother, has a violent and reckless personality who aspires to take over the world, while trying to kill Ender on his way. His sister, Valentine, however, loves Ender and encourages Ender when he feels lonely. Another necessary part that has to be included in Ender’s Game is the part when Ender discovers that the simulator is the actual commander podium. This part is an important part of the story because this is when the bugger specie and home world is destroyed.

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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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When Ender kills Stilson and Bonzo, Colonel Graff immediately defends Ender by saying those kids deserved to die. Another point is, when Ender beats the simulated Giant game. He is the only one that has ever done so. The last necessary plot is when Ender leads the Dragon Army to win every battle they were in. It shows that no one can beat Ender and it also represents that Ender is the quintessential recruit that the I.F. needs.

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The first major event that showed Ender enduring some troubles was when he woke up in the middle of the night and found that “there was blood” on his bed, and he had been “gnawing on his own fist” (285) in the middle of the night, in his sleep. This revealed to the reader that the strong and powerful Ender might be beginning to crack and show a

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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.

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However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.

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