Ender's Game Movie Vs Book Essay

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Ender’s game is a great book, so good they made it into a movie. It’s so popular it got about 701,000 ratings on goodreads alone. I definitely think you should get this book. The story is about a boy named Ender Wiggin who has a sister who he loves named Valentine and a brother named Peter who hates him very much. Enders classmates hate ender and a group bullies attack him, he beats up the leader in order to protect himself and gets moved up to battle school where the real fun starts. The author of the book is Orson Scott Card who wrote the book twice the second one adding in detail about what was going on back in earth with his family, the movie didn’t include that. It won the Nebula Award and the Hugo award, which are the probably the two biggest science fiction awards. There are ten novels right now in the same universe as Ender’s Game (obviously it was quite successful). In 2012, was first in “Bestselling Science Fiction Novels of 2012” from …show more content…

If you like strategy things like I do, you should find this interesting because the book is pretty much based around Enders strategies he uses to win games or battles. “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.” -Orson Scott Card. This book shows themes of genocide as Ender unknowingly destroys an entire planet filled with living beings called buggers. Luckily, he found a queen with eggs from the species he destroyed and plans to let them grow and survive in a planet the humans invaded. Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.” -Colonel Graff his teacher throughout this. Another reason why you would care about this is because Ender has many bad things going on throughout his life and he keeps going, not ever giving up even when he has “won” like others