Orson Welles

Envision sharing a universe with strange insect-like creatures, called “buggers,” who are trying 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 purpose of a war is different in each war. Some wars are fought for peace, and others are fought for the wanting of acquiring something. These two kinds of wars can be represented by the novels Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. In both of the novels, military leaders manipulate their soldiers in a way to create a winning situation. The leaders advantages of using these soldiers come with costs and risks. The costs of wars include a soldier’s mentality during…

Like a little girl mimicking her mother at the vanity table, the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, resembled its predecessor but paid minimal homage to the beloved novel, despite its fancy dresses woven with exquisite graphics and its faint perfumes of action and intensity. By focusing on the general events at Battle School and Command School, the film left out the specific details of Ender’s training experience. Although the movie included essential scenes from the…

No book or movie is ever alike. This is shown in the book “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card and the Enders Game movie by Gaven Hood, where the book and movie had many similarities but as well had many differences. In the novel Ender is portrayed as a very different kid after he gets to battle school; however this is not shown in the movie. Another difference would be how Lock and Demosthenes were not mentioned at all in the movie, yet had a huge role in the book, and the final would be the…

In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, a young boy named Andrew, Ender for short, faces the challenge of adult control. As a soldier in Battle School, Ender is forced to rely on adults’ commands , which is both good and bad. As a result of this, Ender begins to see through the adults’ words to their true intent. This leads Ender to try to make his own choices, which shows him how tough the words and actions of adults’ truly are.Throughout the story, the theme- Never underestimate the…

In the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, the ideas between protagonist and antagonists vary because each type of living being on the planet, Lusitania, is going against each other for the greater good of their own species. The humans are dying off from the descolada, a disease that the pequeninos, an alien species that are structured like large pigs who can walk and talk, need in order to survive and move on to their third life as “fathertrees.” And the humans are trying to tame this descolada…

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…

Many people have different personalities, but Ender and Ellie have some very different qualities but a few similar ones. Ender's Game is about kids who are very smart who get taken up to a place called battle school ams they get trained to fight and alien race which humans call “Buggers”. Night is a true story about a boy who is in the middle of World War 2 as a jew and gets taken to Auschwitz to work until The Allies free them. Ender and Ellie are very different personality wise, some can be…

The first chapter of Ender’s Game commences with two unknown individuals indulged in an enigmatic discussion, surrounding a boy and his two siblings. During the conversation between the unknown characters, they decide that the boy also known as Ender is the chosen one, the one they need to save the world from buggers. As the first chapter progresses, it informs the reader that Ender is a six-year-old boy with a monitor or device, that allows authorities to perceive the world as Ender does…

Literary Analysis : Ender’s Game Ender’s Game is a book that was published January 15, 1985. The author was Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game is a science fiction book and shows themes of friendship and loyalty. It explores through the courageous young characters, as they are in space.In the near future, a alien race has attacked Earth. If not for the heroic of commander Rackham, all would had been lost. In preparation for the next attack Colonel Graff and the military are training only the best…