Commentary On Ender's Game 'By Helen O' Hara

When given a dynamic setting and plot, change is inevitable. In the novel, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the author tells the story of a dystopian society which focuses on the task of defending itself from extraterrestrial creatures. Through the course of the book, the protagonist, Ender Wiggin, faces challenges that influence his actions and attitude. Although there are many characters who undergo change in the novel, Ender’s dynamic personality traits are more evident, being that he has a larger impact on readers. Due to being manipulated, Ender Wiggin changes from an ambitious young boy, to a subdued and wary character.

Chapter 3: There is a knock at the door while Ender and his family are eating dinner, it is a commander of the International Fleet and want Ender to go to battle school. Ender got his Monitor taken off but Colonel Graff had his final test to see how he reacted without the monitor. Ender’s reason for continually hurting Stilson was to make sure that Stilson did not hurt him again and Colonel graph approves and convinces Ender to go to Battle School.

The book has a repeated theme of Ender being put down emotionally and physically. Along with his childhood, his identity is taken away from him. Ender is put through endless training with little rest and is put under an immense lot of pressure.

In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, it starts with ender in school and being made fun of. After he beats up a bully, he goes home to deal with his brother Peter who also bullies him because Ender is a better specimen than Peter was. But what no one expected was that a representative from the military came to invite Ender to Battle School up in space. Ender accepted and went to live up in Battle School for years to come. At first, Ender was hated for being such a talented student at the age of six but was soon respected after he was able to beat all the other armies with just a bunch of little kids. Ender became the best soldier at Battle School and was moved up to Command School where he would learn to command

Ender's Game is author Orson Scott Card's best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary, the plot of the novel is a story about a young child, Ender Wiggin, taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space invaders) in order to train him to be a military genius to defend the human race from an alien species (Buggers) that has already attacked Earth twice. At the end of the novel Ender kills the entire bugger race but does not know it until after the

Another reason the film needs Ender’s backstory is to create a connection. By adding his backstory, Ender has more in common with the audience, making people more emotionally attracted to his story. According to Helen Riess from the Science of Empathy, “Individuals tend to have the most empathy for others who look or act like them...” (Riess. H, 2017).

The book begins with Ender gets his monitor out and commander Graff tells him he needs to go to battle school because he was the smartest kid. In the shuttle going to battle school, he broke Bernard’s arm and got bullied by the bigger kids. Ender started to command his own army after standing up to the bullies and then graduated and moved to command school. He stays on earth for a while to get ready to travel to Eros and then he was isolated from everyone and then he got to fight in the war against the Buggers. They won and Ender’s team thought it was a game not

On the other hand, in the film Ender remains a young teenager the whole movie. This could be most likely due to the fact that the creators of the film didn’t want to have to cast three different aged actors that looked very similar enough to be the same person. Also, this change made Ender’s time at the Battle School seem like it took weeks rather than years which would help move along the flow of the movie and make it so the plot didn't seem to drag on as we watched a six year old develop into a young adult. Even though this change might have positively affected to overall flow of the storyline in the movie it feels like an uneven tradeoff when considering we lose the greater insight to the development of Ender over the years he spends at Battle School. For example, in the movie Ender has a very big problem with authority figures but he is a young teenager and that is socially expected of him to act out towards adults. In the book when Ender talks back to the adults it is as a six to eight year old which is a much more powerful image with a much more antithetical meaning. An eight year old Ender would feel as if he was the underclass and this would explain his subversive tendencies towards the adults who were in charge at the Battle School. Since Ender is older in the movie the back talk and anti-superior mindset he establishes has much less shock value when watching it on screen. On screen Ender’s

The struggle for identity within Ender’s Game was a common theme throughout the book. Ender’s Game is a book about a boy named Ender who was recruited into the battle school in hopes of unlocking his true potential so he could command the IF as he was humanity’s last hope. His main goal would be beating the buggers who are an alien species who launched two invasions on Earth and Ender was told that a third one would eventually come. Characters such as Ender are pushed to their limits while others hide behind a false identity in hopes of making a change. These characters change as the book progresses on and several instances show the reader the changes that are happening.

My reasoning for this is because Ender was forced to be a dangerous person all out of other people’s jealousy. Next, Ender was manipulated easily, having to face torturous and unfair training, Lastly, in the end of the book, Ender realizes that buggers aren’t as harmful as they seem from Eros. So, in the end the war had been pointless.     Ender’s dangerous attitude had come people’s decisions to be jealous of him. Ender was faced with an altercation where Colonel Graff scolded everyone, but Ender.

It's finest point was the brilliant development of Ender's character through the lens of his personal hardships. My favorite aspect of Ender's character was his response to threats of any kind, to make the threatening party incapable of ever harming him again. I relate with that on a personal level, especially now. Though I may not be threatened, I recently experienced suffering. I loved someone, and they didn't love me. To end my suffering, removing them was necessary. What I find interesting is that Ender hated doing what was necessary for his protection, that he was genuinely sorry for what he's done, but what he did was the right choice, and he knew that. I feel strongly about it, and enjoyed his moral dilemma, as it reminds me of my

"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." Ender gets mad at himself for killing the whole bugger population,because of that Ender gets mad at the commanding officer that put him in charge of the “simulation” .If the author never added this there would be no after story and the book would just end where he killed the whole population and then it wouldn’t tell what happens after the battle. There would also be none of the other books there would only be Ender’s

“You won’t fail, Ender. Not this early in the course. You’ve had some tight ones, but you’ve always won. You don’t know what your limits are yet, but if you’ve reached them already you’re a good deal feebler than I thought.” (Card 286). Ender’s Game is a dystopian novel by Orson Scott Card that follows the training and thoughts of the protagonist, Ender, ultimately ending with the destruction of an alien race, the buggers. Ender’s militaristic and desperate society forces him to unwillingly commit genocide to an extent where Ender’s withering and empathetic mind begins to question the consequences of his actions.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles”, stated Sun Tzu in his book The Art Of War. This quote ties greatly to the mindset of Ender Wiggin. Ender is confronted with an opponent who he cannot beat. All his life he has been the underdog, but smarter than all those around him and battle school gave him a chance to prove his worth. The intensity of Ender's Family life and his journey to defeat the buggers, is much more coherent in the movie than the book.

In today’s day and age, many people have become self-consumed rather than trying to make a good impact in other’s lives. As Albert Einstein once stated “ The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not what he is able to receive” (Albert Einstein Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 12 July 2017). Orson Scotts Ender’s Game, is a good representation of the value of life because Ender whom is a young child, sacrifices his life by enrolling into a military school in order to protect his country as well as his loved ones. Throughout Ender’s Game, Ender and a group of other young children are picked by the government to be enrolled into a military school to be trained to battle in a war against a foreign species that plan to invade their