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    Each day, every one of us wakes up and goes to our average, everyday high school. The normal day for Ender Wiggin was Battle school, hours of learning, and action packed encounters. The plot of Ender’s Game is about a boy who is placed in battle school at age 6 to train in the ways of a commander and lead an army in the war against the Buggers. After showing superior skill and knowledge, Ender is sent to command school where he defeats the Bugger race into extinction… Or so it is initially…

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    colonize your home - Earth. Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is about a boy, Ender Wiggin, who gets sent to Battle School - in space! - and soon becomes commander of Dragon Army. Battle School is designed to turn young children into military leaders. At Battle School, groups of students fight mock battles, in null gravity, and are split into different toons. Because of Ender’s brilliance, the Dragon Army soon became invincible. After continuously winning, Ender’s Army is split apart…

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    “There is no teacher but the enemy.” Mazer Rackham, a character in Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, teaches this lesson to the main character of the story, Andrew (Ender) Wiggin. His statement has a prominent significance to the theme of the novel and it can be applied to several vexatious situations throughout Ender’s life. In Ender’s Game, Ender has several adversaries that he learns from, and each one teaches him something new. One of these enemies was his own brother, Peter Wiggin.…

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    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…

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    quote is taken from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. In this one quote, it sums up the relationship between Ender and his brother Peter. Peter is one of the greatest influences in Ender's life, even if Ender refuses to admit it. Because Peter was so cruel and violent towards Ender, often physically abusing him(page 12). Due to this End began to imitate Peter's actions when he played the war games ruthlessly. This led to Ender being a remarkable commander. Through the violent ‘games’ Peter…

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    Thanks to the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, I can now say I have been blessed to have read the magic that is Orson Scott Card’s writing. As I continued to read my fiction based independent study unit, the book has only become more enveloping due to the flourishing relationship between the reader and the characters, along with the expansion in the books world since the last section. It has gotten to the point where it seems as though every time I flip a page in this section of the book…

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    In Ender’s Game, I would like to be friends with Ender. Ender is the main character in the story, and I would want to be friends with him because he is strong, bright, decisive, and also independent. In the story, I read many times where Ender faced challenges, but even though it seemed impossible to do, he still managed to do his best and win. One example was when he was eight years old Ender transferred armies to a new army and became the commander for them. There were many challenges to…

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    The stories Star Wars, Hunger Games, and Ender’s Games all compare and contrast the way Luke, Katniss, and Ender go through the Hero’s Journey. One way they contrast is, the Call to Adventure because Luke is invited to go to Alderaan and Katniss is forced through a drawing. On the other hand, Ender is invited to go with the potential of being able to learn to stand up for himself. One way they compare is, they refuse to go away because their families need them there. Ender refuses because he…

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    Ender's game is written by Orson Scott Card. This book is a story about a little boy named Ender. He lives with parents and have two older siblings, peter and valentine. His siblings are highly intelligent, but the international military picked Ender as a leader and forces him to save the world from the buggers, an alien race looking to invade Earth. Ender needed to enter the Battle School to be trained. The school was located on a ship far from earth. As such, Ender was trained by Colonel Graff…

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    Math In Ender's Game

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    is Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. The novel tells the story of a small boy named Ender Wiggins who travels into outer space to fight alien invaders known as “buggers.” Ender is unlike any other boy in the universe, however; he is outstandingly brilliant. He has mastered the art of mathematics before he has turned ten years old, and he uses this to survive and excel in Battle School. The Battle School, a training school for small boys to learn how to fight the buggers, host several “games”…

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