Similarities Between Ender's Game Movie And Book

Ender’s Game Comparison Essay Have you ever felt the weight of the world on your shoulders? Have you felt that the fate of billions of lives depends on you? This is the pressure that young Ender Wiggin faces in the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game begins with young Ender Wiggin getting his “monitor” taken out, and being recruited by Colonel Graff to join the Battle School for the International Fleet, because he is the human’s last chance to defeat the bugger species. He grows there and progresses to become the best commander to ever go to Battle School. He is told that he has graduated to Command School, and after a while is given his “final exam”. Little does Ender know that through his simulation game, he is actually commanding a real army, and when he learns that he has destroyed the buggers’ planet, he is devastated. The book Ender’s Game was better than the movie. One of the elements that I thought was crucial to the story was the …show more content…
For example, they used an actor that was perfect to play Ender’s part, in my opinion. He was smaller and thinner than the rest. He did a good job showing his emotions, whether it was when he fought Bonzo, or when he destroyed the bugger planet. This allowed you to see how Ender feels throughout the story. Another similarity was the battles. The battle room was exactly how they described it in the book. The start were scattered, the guns worked how they were supposed to. Later on, in Ender’s “final exam”, he uses the M.D. Device. In the book it is described as being a weapon that can break down objects at a molecular level. This is what we see in the movie, where a chain reaction occurs and the whole Bugger planet is slowly destroyed. These similarities helped the movie because this part of the movie was exactly what you expected to happen. Without the M.D. Device working as it should, it would be very difficult to understand what it actually