Ender’s Game Compare/Contrast Essay Taking over the world at 11 years old sounds pretty ridiculous doesn’t it? Not for a young intelligent boy named Ender Wiggins. Enders journey lead him to realize that all that he had trained for, and fought for, was not worth it. The story was all about Enders redemption because he had been used so much and manipulated into doing things that he didn’t want to do, things he would’ve handled differently. The book was far better than the movie, it was more descriptive while the movie tried to jam all the details in a short period of time. I will be discussing the similarities and differences between the book and the movie. Ender had been placed under an insensitive program, that had been watching him for …show more content…
One similarity was that in both the movie and the book, Peter hated Ender and despised him for being a Third. Peter was also very intelligent but his aggression got the best of him. Valentines love for Ender never changed, and in both the book and movie she defended him from Peter. She also appeared in the game Ender was playing. She always wanted the best for him and she loved Ender. Another similarity was that the Buggers tried to communicate with Ender and he didn’t realize until it was too late. In both the book, and the movie, Enders constant battle was trying to decide if what he was doing was right or if he needed to change something. He hated hurting people, and hating being anything like Peter, but that side of him showed when needed. Ender had always been someone to observe and watch what others did before he made any decisions, he was a smart boy who definitely had the leading capability in …show more content…
They missed a lot of details that I believe were crucial in showing the struggle Ender went through. The movie barely showed just how terrible Peter treated him and the problems he had to face at home. Everything happened so quickly and all of a sudden he ended up at Battle School. There was no confrontation with Bernard on the spaceship, which I believe was an important part to showing that aggression. There was never any mention of Stilson and Bonzo being killed, which shows that they toned down his aggression way too much. His isolation in the movie was not clear at all, you couldn’t really tell he was isolated like you could in the book. In the book, he had made friends very slowly but it showed just how loyal these people were to him, and he had practice sessions and they grew together. In the movie however, he almost fit right in, he didn’t have any of his practice sessions, and quickly got his own army. I think they missed a huge part of his road to being a commander. In the book, Ender toughens up Bean by basically bullying him, while still praising him at the same. In the movie, they quickly become friends. The ending of the movie and book were also very different. In the book, Ender and Valentine travel to another planet and find the queen egg. In the movie, Ender finds the queen by himself and she shows
Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
“It’s not what you have it’s what you don’t have that counts” (Raskin pg.43), at least in The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The sixth grade students at GLMS have recently read the novel, and watched the movie The Westing Game. This is a novel and movie that has it all, mystery, murder, suicide, bombs, thievery, and yet a $200 million prize. The Westing Game novel and movie contains many similarities and differences that are worth your time.
Therefore, Ender shows the reader that he takes responsibility as an adult for just waking up early and on time for his battles. Therefor, Ender taking that responsibility must be hard since he's just a kid and has to be responsible for
Some people believe that everyone is born with morality, some people say it is learned. No matter which way morals are given, almost everyone has them. In the novel, Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card constantly brings up the topic of morality. Many years in the future the main character Ender is meant to save the world. He has to make multiple difficult decisions and many of them make him question his morals. Throughout the book, some of the decisions Ender makes are the right choice, but also hurt others. People will often compromise their morals in service for the greater good.
Both take on the features of the other, whether it be intelligence or violence, and both show qualities of heroism. Ender and Peter are both able to help the world, but the ways that they do it create different characters between two people who are similar. Famous author Brodi Ashton was quoted writing, “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” Ender and Peter are both be brilliantly smart, but the actions they took with that power defined who they truly
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
After much internal debate Ender decides to go to battle school and leave home. He knows he won’t see his family until he is at least 12 but most likely he will have to wait until he is 16. When Ender is inside the ship on the way to battle school, the adults start their manipulation game. Graff calls out Ender as the only one who will save mankind, making the other kids hate Ender and become envious. Ender already lost the chance at having a normal childhood when he was born a third, but he was also considered to be the chosen one to save mankind from the very beginning. The manipulation of Ender is shown through the book and the children at the school either take part in his abuse or ignore the adults who cause it. Through this abusive training tactic Ender becomes the skilled fighter and leader the government wants. Ender gets moved through the program fast. He gets to the command school at age 9, a school no one can go to until they are sixteen. The adults tell him he will be doing simulations to practice the attacks on the buggers, but after the last simulation he finds out he killed the entire bugger species. The novel shows Ender to be morally innocent throughout his story, but he takes on the guilt of xenocide of the buggers. He is shocked at what he did, even when he didn’t know what he’s doing. Ender loses his innocence at this moment. He knew he was being manipulated by the adults throughout his career at the battle schools, but he had no idea he was being manipulated into exterminating a whole race. When he realizes what he did he goes into another depression slump and does not come out of his room for days. He doesn’t understand why he was manipulated into what he
Throughout the book, Enders Game it is arduous to establish what it authentically denotes to have human rights. The regime relies on children to preserve the world from the buggers. They are treated like they are adults and are purloined of their youth. Ender realizes that the adults are manipulating the children and his cognizance of what is right and what is not is what preserves the world from the manipulation from the adults. Because of Ender kenning what is right and was is not and withal is authentic this is what he does that culminates up preserving the Earth from extirpation. In Orson Scott Card’s novel, the Ender’s Game shows how in authentic life that children can be utilized in Warfare, which they are called “child soldiers”, and
There are few similarities between the book and the movie. Usually most movies are similar to
The first of many important similarities is that in the book as well as the movie, May, August Rosaleen and Lily all
I have only included what I have to believe are largely important plot gaps and differences in the movie version in comparison to the book one, and so I apologize again if I have missed any other major ones. Forgive me, please.
In both books they share some traits, even though they may not look anything alike they are. both of these novels are dystopian novels and many characters share similarity’s.
Another similarity in the book and movie is that the characters have to go against their morals in order to decide what to do in certain situations. An example of this in the book is when Skip realises he would have to trespass and steal in order for him to keep himself and his friends alive. Or in...
The lines that define good and evil are not written in black and white; these lines tend to blur into many shades of grey allowing good and evil to intermingle with each another in a single human being. Man is not inherently good or evil but they are born innocent without any values or sense of morality until people impart their philosophies of life to them. In the words of John Locke:
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.