Ender's Game Book Review Essay

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Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a science fiction, dystopian, military novel first published in 1985. The book tells the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, an intelligent six-year-old boy who first gets recruited into Battle School to learn how to fight Earth’s extraterrestrial enemy, the “Buggers”. The world believes Ender is the last chance to win the Bugger Wars. Reading Ender’s Game was an extremely positive experience for me. This book has such a rich and interesting plot line. No matter where you are in the story, there is never even a second of boredom. Whether you're reading about Ender in school, Peter and Valentine’s political scheme, or the battles against the Buggers, you will never want to put this book down. In this critique, you will find an in-depth analysis of characters along with my thoughts concerning my favorite scenes within the novel Ender’s Game.

Ender’s Game is a book richly filled with interesting and complex characters. Many of the characters share the same characteristics but are each unique in …show more content…

To elaborate, I would first like to share what exactly I learned from this book. Ender’s Game has taught me how life is similar to a game, and how sometimes you just have to play along whether you like it or not. I have learned to be as strong and as resilient as Ender Wiggin. This is a novel I would recommend to all my friends and almost anyone interested in reading science fiction. Ender’s Game is a novel with such an engaging plot that I believe anyone can be captivated and inspired by it. This novel is definitely one that should be used with students, for it provokes intellectual conversations in a wide range of topics from politics, to religion, to science. Ender’s Game is the epitome of why Man created

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