Ender's Game Vs Book Analysis

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Imagine waking up eight o’clock on a Saturday morning, but instead you were waking up to the sound of your commander's voice telling you to get ready for war. The movie Ender’s Game and the book Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card has its similarities and has its differences. Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the book and movie shows with his wins and his defeats that he can only fight people or buggers that he understands. In each of the paragraphs, you will learn about why the book is better than the movie, and why the movie is one of the worst movies created from a book. Orson Scott Card was right on why Ender’s Game Book cannot be made into a movie because of how long the book is and how much information was put into the book. Throughout this paragraph, you will learn two key and important facts about Ender’s Game that the story cannot be without. The first key and important fact is Ender’s decision to go to Battle …show more content…
The first similarity that happened between the Ender’s Game book and movie is that Ender doesn’t fit with anyone around him. The only person that seems to like him is his sister, Valentine. He is bullied at school, the first time he enters Battle School everyone hates him and doesn’t like him, and when he enters the Salamander group, the commander. Bonzo. This is showing that Ender is alone and not many people like him. The second similarity in the book is his experiences in the battle room. Ender Wiggin in the movie compared to Ender Wiggin in the book take a bunch of risks, playing the way others wouldn’t expect in the battle room to try and beat everyone that gets in his way. Both of these choices work well because Ender is a risk taker when it comes to battle fighting, and when nobody knows about Ender, they don’t know how he thinks compared to everyone else, and he uses key battle strategies that are unexpected to win against

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