Ender's Game Movie Vs Book Analysis

How would you feel if you were approached at random in your own home to go to a place where each day you’d be fighting for your life? Well, this was what happened to Ender Wiggins. Ender’s Game is a science fiction story focusing on battles between different armies throughout space. It leads to a search for different soldiers all trying for one ultimate goal: beating the returning champions, the “Buggers.” When looking at both the film and the novel, in my opinion, the book was superior. It aimed to show the entire storyline of Ender’s Game from beginning to end. It demonstrated the realistic encounters of Ender’s journey as well as the obstacles he had to overcome. The book and the film are directly related through the same themes. Some of these being that The Government cannot be trusted, the adults are the true enemies and that it is every man for himself. When looking at The Government, they only work to intensely train young children to kill and fight off others their age. The Government gave no sense of direction on what to do or even who you’re going up against. However, each one knows only one army will come out alive. The young soldiers are completely isolated and directly taught that fighting and killing is the way to success in their environment. Now looking at the adults, each soldier knows for a fact that they cannot place any …show more content…
It gave exquisite details on how each individual part happened and how each character responded. Supporting my thesis, the novel was more intriguing than the movie. Each event was described clearly, whereas in the film many were left out or unspoken of. I feel as if the movie focused on just the main parts of the story, but in the book every little obstacle was written out. Therefore, I have given various examples as to why the book was better than the film, along with the major similarities and differences of the