He now feels like a murderer instead of somewho saves lives. Ender doesn’t feel like a hero even though he is one but still a hero to one may be a villian to others. The author of Ender’s Game uses irony as a way to convey unerlying themes and the truth behind what war and simply fights are. There are many messages to learn from Ender’s Game, starting with patience. Ender weighs through his losses and waits and the tides usual turn in his favor.…
Ender’s Game Adaptation Movie Review Gavin Hood’s Adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is an adventurous thrill ride. Ender Wiggin played by Asa Butterfield, is a third that was not really appreciated for being the third child in his family, a third that ended up being a successful recruit for the Battle School, where Ender is being pushed to his breaking point with all of the lies they are feeding him. It seems this movie took a lot of time and effort to create, with all of the scenes and technology upgrades. This movie is a good adaptation to the book because it brings all of the action moments in the book to the screen.…
In the book Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, Andrew Wiggin (Ender) was chosen to save the entire human race from the Formics, most commonly known as the Buggers, who were coming back to invade humans again. Ender was recruited into the International Fleet (I.F.) where he met Colonel Graff, Director of Primary Training at Battle School. After Ender graduated from Battle School, he went off to Command School with Colonel Graff. He and the other Command School authorities did what they had to do in order to shape Ender Wiggin into the strong commander they needed to defeat the Buggers. They were justified in how they handled the final evaluation of Ender and his peers.…
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.…
56.General Pace comes to the Battle School because he is concerned about Ender’s conflict with the other students. He wants Graff to do something about Ender’s conflict with Bonzo and the other kids. But Graff does not want to help Ender because he wants Ender to take care of his own problems. An evidence quote from the text is “If we transfer Bonzo ahead of schedule, he’ll know that we saved him,” (Scott, Card202). This shows that Graff does not want to help Ender he wants Ender to learn how to solve his own problems for himself.…
That’s only to examples of how pride becomes before the fall and I’m sure there’s more examples in the movie but that’s what stands out to me the most in this movie. Ender had some tough times in battle school but he was a good person that ended up having a big hart and ended up not being able to kill a whole galaxy.…
Ender seems to be very hard working in his different missions that his commanders give him. One point where he is very hard working is when he is in the battle with his team against Salamander Army and Rat Army and he created a very precise plan to win, and they did. He is also very smart. In his final test against the Buggers he was able to adjust his plan at the drop of a hat. Ender always seems to be very insecure and imitated by his commanders in the…
At first Graff set him up for failure, he purposely wanted for the other boys to despise Ender. That led to jealousy, and kids picking on him as he “cried out softly with the pain” (Card 60). Ever since the beginning of the novel, Ender wanted to finish Battle School as soon as possible just for the benefit of others. His past life may have caused him pain, but now he still has so much to learn. As soon as Ender made the final move, the strangers that were surrounding him started to cheer.…
In Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, the motif of ends justify the means emphasizes the lengths people will go to to save themselves. Graff and Anderson continuously test Enders skill and expertise through various unfair challenges on Earth and in Battle School, emphasizing the motif of ends justify the means. With the Buggers on the brink of returning, Graff and Anderson are to ensure Ender can be the best soldier possible, regardless of what they do to get there. Ender encounters a challenge when Stilson attempts to beat up Ender, although Enders skill and wit overcome Stilson for good. “Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs.…
Ender’s mother was shocked that an officer was proud of the decision Ender made that got him invited to the battle school because Graff was basically promoting violence to Ender, saying it is ok to use which made the novel disturbing. Also, the violence while in battle school made the children being in the characters more disturbing because of the actions they took. Ender and Bonzo were fighting in the bathroom because Bonzo wanted to kill him, “Ender whirled in time to see Bonzo stagger backward, his nose bleeding, gasping from surprise and pain”(211). The quote shows how Ender was defending himself from Bonzo, who wanted to kill him. The character should not have been a child and shown that violence was the problem solver.…
Imagine being born an outcast and forced to end a war. That’s what life is like for Ender Wiggin, the protagonist in the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender is a third child in a world where having more than two children is obscure. The only reason he was ever born was to become a commander and defeat the alien threat known as the buggers. To do this Ender is conscripted to Battle School, a place where kids are put against each other in null gravity to learn about the tactics of war.…
There are multiple ways that the adults in power manipulate Ender for their personal agenda and slowly break him, and the damage and impact they leave certainly shows the reader the selfish goals of adults psychologically hurting Ender Wiggin. The people in command emotionally controlled Ender by trying…
They’re robbed of their childhoods just as Ender was and have no chance of a batter life if things don’t change. Ender is just another example of a young kid exploited for their physical…
It is a story with meaning behind the text to give the reader a life lesson about the importance of family, and how war affects it. Actions throughout the book made by the main character caused major impacts on the course of the story. Ender’s character changes dramatically from the beginning to the end of the story both mentally and physically. Overall, if you haven’t read the book, this story is surely one that should be at the top of your…
From slavery to child labor to peer pressure, there’s always a time period where someone is forced to perform an action against their moral will, and this dreadful event occurs in novels too. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, may be a science fiction novel, but it doesn’t lack the unethical elements of the real world. For instance, page 35 of the novel describes an unnerving, stomach churning idea. “‘...if humankind survives, then we were good tools.’ ‘Is that all?…