Ender Wiggin: Comparing The Book And The Movie

Leaders possess many great qualities such as good communication, natural intuition, and confidence. Ender Wiggin combines those qualities throughout both the movie and the book. Ender’s game starts off with an attack on earth from buggers which are aliens of another planet. Once attacked on, Mazer Rackham conquers and destroys the buggers, but that wasn't the last attack from these aliens. Colonel Graff believes that somewhere out there is the next Mazer Rackham, which leads him to starting a military program. The program recruits kids that when a problem is thrown at them they can overcome and accomplish it. Ender takes charge in the next attack and destroys the entire species of buggers in the movie and book. Differences from movie to book are not large but well noticed, the description that is given in the novel is what makes it better than the film. …show more content…
A crucial moment is when Ender fights what he thinks is the final test but then comes to find out that it is the last battle of the third invasion. That is very important because Ender becomes the new Mazer Rackham and saves the world from a buggers invasion that could have swept away the entire human being race. Another moment considered crucial would be when Ender kills bonzo and stilson because it helps show who he really is. If Orson Scott Card didn't add that to the novel you would just get the impression of a kid that's going to a school because he's smart and won't be able to defeat the buggers. With the violence added the reader has hope that he will be able to be the next Mazer