In both the movie and the book, the story take place at some point in the future, at least a decade after a devastating alien invasion that frightened the Earth and had killed off almost the entire human species. The invasion was only stopped by a final attack by Earth’s Master Strategist, wiping out the remaining aliens on Earth, and turning the tide of the war. Although he succeeded, it came at great cost. The entire world had thought he had died. Earth needed a new leader. It needed a new hero, but no worthy candidate had stepped forward. The Battle School began to pick and choose only certain children to train in strategy in order to see who among them would come to be the best the Earth had to offer, and become the new master strategist that the Earth so desperately needed.
Ender was the third child in his family. With the population barriers that limit parents to only two children, this was very rare occurrence. Certain laws were put into effect in order to limit population growth, but Ender’s parents were
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A few of the big, spectacular, strategies of the book are actually in the movie, but in those certain cases, they were given or suggested to him by the other characters. The book made it very clear that Ender had studied and worked very hard to come up with such strategies. In other cases in the movie, the strategies simply came to mind without the extreme stress that the book clearly showed as a very necessary step to push a person to using such strategies. In the movie, he may have been very sharp for a grade-schooler, but the book made it very clear that Ender Wiggin wasn’t just “a smart a grade schooler”. It showed that he could out-strategize anyone else in his time, which is why he was the only hope to save humanity and the hero figure of the