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.
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."
Ender did not want to go because he did not want to leave his sister Valentine, who he loved dearly, but he knew the only reason for his existence was so he could be in the war against the Buggers, so he
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.
Throughout most of the book, Ender uses Valentine as a way of coping with the constant changes in his life and keeping himself motivated. This is proved on page 43, when Ender says, “I will not be the bugger of my group, -I didn 't leave Valentine, and Mother, and Father to come here just to be iced”. Ender uses Valentine, and his family in order to comfort himself. Ender also uses his family, including his brother Peter, to keep himself from having an emotional breakdown. This means that by comparing himself to Peter or thinking of Valentine, Ender keeps himself from turning into someone who is just a killer, rather than a strategic and wise player of the games that his Battle School are using to try to break him down.
In the book, it is made completely clear that the system of both the Battle School and Command School are breaking Ender down, ultimately demonstrated by Ender being completely bedridden after the Third Invasion due to everything he’s endured. This also happens with the movie’s presentation of the characters, with more characters being sympathetic to Ender. This completely overrides a plot point in the book,
Ender’s Game in my humble opinion, is the epitome of an amazing book. This book has sent me on a whirling rollercoaster of emotion with every flip of a page. If it isn’t Ender in danger, it’s his brother trying to take over the world. If not that, then it is dialogue between military corporals, feeding me nonsense that alter my belief in Ender’s ability to overcome the issue at hand “We want to teach him, not give him a nervous breakdown. ”(Card 210).
Also when Ender was still at battle school and all of the communication and occurrences between all the the people in the battleship. This was important because it made the story smooth and easy to follow. Also shows how ender was doing in school during his past. These are so important because it made the book how great it is
Valentine always liked Ender more than Peter, because she wanted Ender to be an astronaut for once in the game of Buggers and Astronauts from this quote “Let him be an astronaut once.” From this quote it shows that Valentine wants everyone to be even and have fun, even though that she knows Peter would never let him be an astronaut. Even though she knows that Peter is not bluffing when he says he is going to kill them Valentine says, “You are all talk.” “You don’t mean any of it.” Which says that Valentine still believes there is still good in everyone, even when there isn’t because she just got threatened and she still says that Peter would never do that.
Ender then goes and is faced with challenges everyday to test who he is. Ender finally destroys the buggers, but finds out that they weren 't trying to hurt the humans. These important parts are shown in both the book and the movie, however the book is a better showing of Ender’s journey. There are multiple themes and plots that are necessities for Ender’s journey. One plot that was noticed was that Ender has a free pass to be a killer.
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.
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself,” says American artist Andy Warhol (BrainyQuote.com). Often, people take a back seat to time while they simply wait for it to fix things, but in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the titular character, Jay Gatsby, does no such thing. He seeks to take control of time by manipulating the present to fix the past. This is a common misconception held by not only Jay Gatsby, but also many World War I veterans in the 1920s as they sought to make up for the time they lost with their loved ones when they were overseas. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, he utilizes chilling and increasingly darker imagery and figurative language surrounding
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.
In chapter seven of the book, “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Achebe uses many biblical allusions such as the locusts representing the ten plagues of Egypt, Okonkwo playing a part in Ikemefuna’s death like the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, and Ikemefuna portraying a Christ like character throughout the chapter. The locusts swarming Umuofia, Okonkwo having a role in the sacrifice of Ikemefuna, and the way Ikemefuna acts during his sacrifice, all represent biblical allusions. After waiting seven years for the locusts to return, the people of Umuofia are relieved when the locusts finally arrive, “Everyone was now about, talking excitedly and praying that the locusts should camp in Umuofia for the night” (56). The locusts swarming Umuofia is a biblical allusion used by
In the story, Things Fall Apart, there is a strong theme that stood out to me, and that theme is fear. Throughout this story, many characters have experienced fear, like how Okonkwo fears of becoming lazy like his father, Ekwefi fear of losing her daughter, and how Nwoye fears his father’s wrath. Most of the characters have an ‘external’ fear, but Okonkwo has an ‘internal’ fear that has him worrying about himself and who he is. Instead of trying to go above his fear and get rid of it, he lets it consume him.
