...A common perception is that change is only for the better or for the worse, and while Ender Wiggin thinks he has changed for the worse other people think he has changed for the better. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the Earth is under attack. Ender, a brilliant young boy, qualifies for battle school, where, over a course of many years, he strives to be the best student at his age. Throughout Ender’s journey through battle school, he becomes an outcast from being the the smartest kid in his class who gives up on the game of battle school all because of his (kid) role-models opening Enders eyes to the real issues. Being the smartest kid among a group of smart kids in battle school is like a call for isolation. Ender being an outcast was caused by the constant envy of other lanches (other kids in his class). Only one kid ever had the nerve to even say, “I noticed you eating all alone” (42) to Ender and try to be a friend. Teachers never made it any easier for him. Colonel Graff spoke highly of Ender, which only made other kids resent him more. To stop the mistreatment Ender used the reason why they didn’t like him, his brain, by hacking into Bernard's, the meanest kid’s, message system and...
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...“‘I’ll carry you,’ said Ender, ‘I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time, they can forgive you, too. The way that you’ve forgiven me’” (Card 321). Ender’s words encompass the themes that are shown throughout Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game is a story centered around a child by the name of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, and his ability to command the Earth’s Military and defeat the aliens that once attacked the Earth, the Buggers. Through redemption and strength, Ender trains and fights to become their leader, and perhaps the Earth’s only savior. There are two forms of the Ender’s Game story, the original novel, Written by Orson Scott Card,...
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...Imagine a situation as if you were put in a small dark box and you are trying to escape, but no one is willing to help you. This was the exact situation that Ender was placed in. The book and the movie, Ender's Game, are about a boy named Ender who was “born” to save the world. Ender was isolated throughout his life to make him mentally stronger. At the end of the story, he destroys the whole alien race and saves the world. While the book and the movie have a similar story, the book is much better than the movie because the book conveys the story with more depth. There are many crucial elements in Ender’s Game that are needed for the story to be good. One theme that is important in the story is that the end justifies the means. This is...
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... there was still many facts about space travel that scientists were not yet aware of. Orson Scott Card wrote Ender’s Game , a futuristic book where the main setting is in space, in 1985. He then rewrote it in 1991 to better the accuracy of certain facts throughout the book. As time went on, scientists continued to discover the realities of space travel; therefore, Card would need to update facts about how people age in space, traveling at the speed of light, and the effects of space travel on the human body to, once again, make Ender’s Game an accurate novel. Though people in space age slower than humans on earth, they only gain 0.007 seconds of extra life over a period of six months. The most important difference between aging on earth and aging in space is the aging process. This process typically includes bones becoming brittle, blood vessels hardening, muscles wasting away, joints stiffening up, bowels turning irritable, bladders becoming unpredictable, teeth decaying, vision growing dim, and skin wrinkling up. Jessika Toothman explains this when she says, “While for most people, it takes decades to really feel the effects of the aging process, humans stationed in space experience some of them in fast forward.” In order to help make Ender’s Game more accurate, Orson Scott Card would need to Fields 2 change the way Mazer Rackham aged. “‘Why aren’t you dead?’ Ender asked him. ‘You fought your battle seventy years ago. I don’t think you’re even...
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...In her essay “Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game”, for Ender’s World, Hilari Bell expresses that Ender wasn’t successful because he was so great, but because of the friendships and alliances he made based purely on empathy: “True strength comes not from being the best- which Ender was- but from the alliances, teamwork, friendship… and the losers” (83).These friends are the squadron leaders who help him in defeating the buggers. They were the people he trusted, the out castes, but they came together, and in that time they began to know and understand each other. Ender was able to use his friends to battle and be victorious in each of the simulations. Mazar showed them a replay of the most recent battle, and Ender realized that they resembled...
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...‘“Hollywood’s biggest box office bomb of 2013”’ (Variety.com) is commonly associated with the release of the Ender’s Game movie. While not a bad movie in any sense, the movie lacked an engaged fanbase that other sci-fi series like Hunger Games and Twilight have. Compared to the book, the movie leaves out details such as Demosthenes and Locke, Peter’s rise in political power, and Ender’s voyage to the bugger home world. In the book, Ender starts his journey off at Battle School. After a few years of training and commanding an army there, he’s moved to Command School to participate in simulated battles against the buggers. He later finds out that he was not playing simulations and that the battles he commanded were real. Then, he and Valentine...
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...Orson Scott Card explains things in the book the director never could accomplish throughout the movie. Ender Wiggen could not be portrayed as well as he was in the book and the initial box office sales shows that, this movie was not successful and the book was revolutionary everyone can agree to that. Ender’s Game revolutionized the way we viewed the future and made us realize the true problems or enemies of society may not be what you think they are. Throughout the book you are entertained by Ender’s trials & tribulations and will eventually end content with his conquest. Ender’s Game has many staple ideas throughout the story and many of them are important for us to know. Ender learns that you never know the truth behind a situation, there are always other people in control manipulating the final outcome. The Buggers were known to be the enemy worldwide eventually you will find out that everything is not as it seems. The main goal of Ender and the International Fleet is to completely destroy the Bugger civilization so they never will be able to retaliate again, Ender does not know the whole story and never will until the end of it all. Ender Wiggen does not stand alone, Valentine his beloved sister will always be there for him through the ups and downs created by the adults to form their “perfect world”, his family is very important to him but...
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...Cayla Rosenbaum English II – 2 10/7/14 Ender Wiggin: The Boy Who Could. When thinking of a powerful commander with the correct intellect and skill to save the world, I doubt anyone pictures an eleven year old. However, Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Cards novel Ender’s Game is not your typical, brainless eleven year old. In fact, he shows more courage, capability, and adaptability than most middle-aged adults. Using these raw skills Ender Wiggin saves the world at the fresh age of eleven. Ender shows multiple examples of courage throughout the book specifically in chapter fourteen when Ender makes the ruthless yet courageous decision to blow the bugger home planet to pieces. “Then he whispered a command and the ships dropped like rocks toward the planet’s surface…. Almost from the moment they began to drop they were focusing their Little Doctors on one thing only. The Planet itself” (294). Young Ender wasn’t expected to go so far as to blow the planet itself up, but because of his courage he went above and beyond all expectations. Because of Ender’s courageous personality he is completely capable of the task at hand. In fact Ender had been showing signs of capability since he was six. “Ender knew the unspoken rules of manly warfare, even though he was six.” (7). Ender unknowingly used his “knowledge of manly warfare” to show his capability of being the next commander and saving the world five years later by literally beating the young boy into a pulp, to show the others...
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...A lot of people have seen the exciting movie Ender’s Game (2013), but have they read the book? Although, the movie is an awesome science fiction action film, the book is much better. The movie is easier to follow. The book has far more detail and captures your attention. The book talks more about Ender’s relationship with his family which helps you to understand him better. The movie has scenes that entertain using special effects which are exciting to watch. Both the book and the movie have their strengths and their weaknesses. If you really want to be a part of the story, you should read the book. The most compelling reason to read the book is that the book puts more detail and story into its characters. There are differences in the characters in the way they are represented in the movie and the book. In the book, Bean is small but in the movie Bean is a lot bigger. During one of their battles Bean uses one of the biggest kids as a shield to take out the enemy forces. It is hard to see this in the movie, but the book explains it very well. In the book, Bean spends most of his time hiding in the air vents. This is evidence that Bean must have been small. But, in the movie Bean is nearly the size of Ender. The book also describes how Ender was rather mean to Bean. Eventually, they became great friends. The movie shows them as friends from the start, but never really shows much of how Ender treated Bean or shows why. They just one day become friends. Another thing is...
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...Independent Reading Project Analysis Paper: Manipulation and Deception in Ender’s Game 2 major and reoccurring themes throughout Ender’s Game is manipulation and deception. Much of this novel is about how adults manipulate Ender into fulfilling their needs. They trick him, lie to him, and tell him just enough so that he can defeat the buggers. Ender pretty much sums this up when he says, “I've spent my life as someone's pawn" (Pg. 97). On one hand, it seems wrong to lie to and cheat a kid. On the other hand, the adults manipulate him to ensure the survival of the human race. Besides the manipulative relationship between the adults and Ender, there are a number of other relationships full of manipulation: Peter manipulates Valentine, Peter and Valentine manipulate the world, and Ender manipulates many other kids throughout the book. Manipulation may sounds negative, but it gets the job done. Deception can involve being tricked by others, or tricking one's self. In Ender’s Game, trickery and false promises are parts of both games and deadly conflicts. Deception can be used to hurt or protect, depending on the intention of the deceptor. In Ender's Game, deception plays many roles. The main use of deception is the adults versus the children. Early on in the novel, it is clear that Ender already realizes adults lie when the subject of the monitor being removed is discussed. The adults are also deceptive when they remove the monitor and allow Ender to think he was not accepted into...
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...throughout the battle school for all to hear. The novel, Ender’s Game portrays a military society united with a common enemy that therefore, the protagonist has a predetermined destiny of which he is to join the army and become a commander. However, along the way the protagonist, Ender, comes into many conflicts and complications as a result of the setting of the novel. The importance of setting in a novel is unexplainable; for example, the time, place, and customs could change the story from being Sci-fi to ancient history. Without setting the novel, could be completely different. In this novel, the battle school is a futuristic space station located in the asteroid belt near Earth where young children are forced to forget their past and become great military commanders. In the story, Ender’s Game, the battle school is in an extremely futuristic space station that is in the Age of Peace and War. To begin with, the novel must be placed in the future. For example, the knowledge of the people in this story is incredible. Evidence of alien life, space stations creating its own gravity, and children at the age...
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...In Ender’s Game it is noticed that the students of battle school have differences and similarities to students on Earth. The book shows the behavior and thoughts of children in a way that reflects students in real life and how they act and behave. In Ender’s Game it is noticed that the students of battle school have differences and similarities to the students on Earth. The similarities that the battle school students have with the Earth students are vast. As an example the students all have a group of friends to connect with be it at battle or Earth school. However, the school on Earth is mandatory and the children decide to go to battle school ‘“You can change your mind. Up until the point you get in my car with me, you can change your...
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...getting hurt. 3) Inwardly (adv.) – a particular thought, feeling, or action registered or existing in the mind but not expressed to others Pg 196 “Bean sighed inwardly.” John was smiling inwardly at the grade he got on his math test. 4) Extricated (v.) – free from a constraint or difficulty Pg 45 “Every time, though, he extricated himself and went back, perhaps to a different spot, to get a different angle on the game.” It feels good to finally be extricated from all of my classes. 5) Ambition (n.) – a strong...
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...Mysterious Disappearance of Locke and Demosthenes Ender’s Game is a well known science-fiction genre book that is most popular with the young-adult reader demographic. The novel was published in 1985 and written by the American author Orson Scott Card (Card). The official website of Orson Scott Card states that Ender’s Game was the winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards for best novel in 1985 and 1986, respectively (OSC). In November of 2013 the movie adaption was released to the public with a runtime of one hour and fifty-four minutes and was met with mixed reviews garnishing only a “74% fresh” on the movie critics site rottentomatoes.com (Rotten). Like many books that are adapted into movies, fans and critics usually side with the book being a better portrayal of the story than the movie version. Dennis Schwartz, a movie critic from Ozus' World Movie Reviews, expresses his views on the comparison between the movie and book by writing, “Might have worked as a clever thought-provoking read, on film it's a drag” (Schwartz). This common occurrence of the book being better than the movie can be easily explained by remembering that a movie should usually stay around the two hour time mark and that money is a big factor in adapting a book. The major differences between the book and the movie are that Ender’s timeline is completely changed, Ender is portrayed to be a more likable character, and that the cutaways back to Earth with Ender’s siblings Peter and Valentine are completely cut...
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...Ender's Game 8th Grade Literature Summary: Fifty years before the story takes place, the Formics attacked Earth. If not for the legendary Commander, Mazer Rackham, the human race would have been destroyed. To prepare for the next attack, Colonel Graff and the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future hero. Ender (Andrew) Wiggin, a shy but brilliant six year old boy, is recruited to join this program. Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters difficult challenges and simulations, winning respect amongst his peers and teachers. Ender is soon chosen by Graff as the military's great hope, and he is promoted to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham himself. He runs several “simulations” thinking he is training for when he became a commander himself, however, he is really directing real missions through a machine called an Ansible. While thinking he was running a simulation as a graduation battle, he attacks the Formics’ home planet, and annihilates the entire race. When he finds out that the whole thing was real, he goes into a state of depression. In the barren land outside command school, Ender sees a shape that resembles something he had seen in dreams, and in a psychological mind game. He goes to it, and sees a Formic queen pupa, and makes it his mission to find the Formics a new home planet. Essay: The novel Ender's game holds a variety of events and actions by different characters that are...
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