...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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...similarity would have to be that both the book and movie displayed the final bugger battle beautifully. This is one of Ender’s most significant battles, specifically, this could be considered Ender’s Dragon Battle from the Hero’s Journey. It was an extremely important part of the movie and book that could not have been left out. Also, the isolation aspect from the story was included into both the movie and the book. Colonel Graff pointed out Ender’s intelligence to all of the people on the shuttle on their way to Battle School in both movie and book in order to purposefully make people dislike him and isolate Ender. This theme was particularly important because it set up Ender to be able to rely on himself and his peers instead of waiting for an adult to help him, just like how he will have to in the bugger battle, which is emphasized in both the book and movie. Finally, Ender finding the bugger pupa was an important part of the overall story and shows how Ender felt obligated to travel the universe searching for a new home for the pupa, and how he felt that he had to after destroying the whole race and their planet. This is Ender’s Ultimate Boon, basically his end goal, to find a home for the buggers and atone for what he had done to them. Now there are not only similarities between the book and movie, but there are also...
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