The truth can change a person’s entire view of a situation. Actions done in the absence of truth will be different than that same action done knowing the whole situation. In both Ender’s Game and the Hunger Games there are very many lies told by the authoritative figures that drastically change how the main characters Ender and Katniss react. Although they do both get lied to and don’t know the entire outlay of the world, how they react in these situations can be much different. Just because each character is greatly betrayed with a false truth, doesn’t mean their actions will result in the same outcome. Ender’s Game is a Science Fiction Action film produced in 2013 by Gavin Hood. The main actors in the movie are Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfield, and Ben Kingsley. Hunger Games is a dystopian science fiction adventure film produced in 2012 by Gary Ross. The main actors in the movie are Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Woody Harrelson. The basic structure of society is much different in each movie. In Ender’s Game the government is brainwashing the entire country to believe that the militaristic plan they are performing is only to defend the planet from future invasions of the aliens. In reality, they are raising an …show more content…
He was bred specifically to include characteristics that would be vital in eventually leading an entire squadron of children to fight. This born leader is typically much more effective in what he does, but doesn’t always have the ability to naturally draw others to his side. Katniss, from Hunger Games, is a situational leader. She is put in position to be a leader only because of what is happening around her. She doesn’t always have the knack of always knowing what to do as a leader, but she does have the entire country looking at her to know what to do. With help of others around her she helps succeed in leading the entire country into
Introduction: Ender is one of the main characters in this book, Ender is intelligent on and off the battlefield he is the youngest in the salamander army but he is more skillful than anyone else in the army. The book Ender’s game is written by Dr son Scott Card, This book was the Hugo and Nebula winner.
In Enders Game; there’s many key points in the film that without them, they story would be completely different. Ender gets his call to action when he gets his monitor out and beats up a kid (Bernard). The teachers saw what Ender did and thought that he was ready to fight a war. That action causes Ender to go to Battle school to better improve his strength and knowledge. After the hard work in battle school, Ender was sent
They wanted Ender to see that it was a game because this would insure that the humans would be victorious over the buggers. Because of this, Ender has suffered a great ordeal of losses in everything such as life, love, family, and friendship. At this point of my explanation, we can clearly see that Ender does suffice enough to be a Christ Figure because he began his journey with a full heart and now he is ending his journey with nothing left but a new world to live in with Valentine, while trying to find a safe place for the Queen Bugger to live. This is his last and most important mission of all. It looks like as if Ender is beginning a whole new journey. Truth be told, Ender is done, but he has that final step to go before he can call out to home and finally live the rest of days free of
“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.
In the beginning of the book, Ender is ashamed when his decisions harm others. After receiving ‘special treatment’ on his way to Battle School, Ender is being harassed
Orson Scott Card uses many themes in Ender’s Game to portray the type of person that Ender is becoming. The importance of the mind game, Ender’s techniques, and isolation from others are extensive themes that provide important in depth information about the world around Ender. The situations that he is put through ultimately give the reader an understanding of what Card is trying to show while also showcasing the events that Ender is put through.
In chapters one to four in Ender’s Game, many important events occurred. In the first chapter, the author introduces Ender and informs the reader that he will be trained to become the greatest military commander of all time. Then, Ender returns home, after his monitor being taken away, and interacts with his brother, Peter, who threatens Ender that he will easily kill him one day. Later on, Colonel Graff, the director of Battle School, introduces himself at Ender’s house and offers him a chance to be trained in Battle School and eventually convinces Ender to join. As the plot progresses, Ender is shown entering Battle School and his experience with zero gravity. Little does he know, that every move Ender takes is being observed by Graff and
The Hunger Games. Dir. Gary Ross. Perf. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. LionsGate, 2012. Netflix.
However, this school is for battle. The children are taught to fight, kill, and defeat instead of having the same educational experience other kids their age have. There is nothing innocent about this. In the battle school they play games, but they’re military games. They are put up against each other, in hopes of brutally conquering one another. They are forced to make tough decisions that likely affected their mentality. Ender, as previously said, is manipulated by adults. Instead of being nurtured and guided by them, he is tricked and put through tests that are meant to break him. Yet, he doesn’t break. He proves everyone wrong and comes out on top, despite suffering great despair. The irony of his brutal success is that he did not want it in the first place. In Chapter 3, page 26, Ender says “I don’t want to go, but I will.” He is forced into a role of the hero, as he thinks it is his duty. Even though he is brilliant, Ender is still a child and should not be put under such responsibility. That is why I chose this as one of the themes, His innocence, as well as his emotion and values is pushed away by the adults surrounding
I read Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card. In this novel, the main character is given the task of defeating an alien civilization that threatens the human race. Ender Wiggin is the main character in the book. He is a boy genius selected by the International Fleet to attend an elite school made to train future soldiers and commanders for the war. Ender becomes a mastermind of battle strategies and excels past all the other students at the academy. He is given seemingly impossible tasks by his instructors to prepare himself for the war. Ender is able to overcome the odds again and again to lead his armies to victory. His ultimate goal is to successfully propel the alien attack to save humanity.
In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card the main character of the book Ender is a student in battle school. In battle school the students play a game. In this game the students are sectioned off in different armies full of 41 students. Each student wears an outfit called a flash suit. The flash suit has a gun attached to it. The gun shoots a light which when fired at a different flash suit the target wearing a flash suit gets frozen. Both teams have a door. The goal of the game is to use army procedures to defeat the other team. in order to win the remaining team must have 5 students left unfrozen and make it through the other team's doors. Four students go on the four corners of the opposing team's door to remove the force field. When all four students touch the corners the last student goes through the door the game is over. If there are not 5 students left at the end of the game then the game is a draw.The battles are held in a null-gravity room. Null- gravity is the state of having no gravitational pull: being completely weightless. Null-gravity makes even the simplest of tasks difficult
The point of view used in the conversation at the beginning of each chapter is third person. The point of view for the rest of the chapter is also in third person, but the narration is following Ender, not the people who are having the conversation about him.
I related to Ender with many of the decisions that he was forced to make. I agree with his philosophy about ending the fight so that no more fights can grow from it, finishing your opponent, but only in self defense, and standing up too bully's. Ender's game reminded me of countries that expect to much for their children, and that would give everything for them to succeed, almost like overprotective parents.
Ender's Game. Dir. Orson Scott Card and Alan Smithee. Perf. Asa Butterfield. Summit Entertainment, 2013.
“A good scenario doesn’t make a good science fiction story - but it’s setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.” - Jamais Cascio, an author. Orson Scott Card definitely paid attention to descriptive words and setting while writing the novel Ender’s Game, which portrays several young boys, and a few girls too, being shipped off to space. The novel Ender’s Game contains profound ideas of what will occur in the future; however, not all of the novel’s innovations and individual elements are valuable. Portrayed as a futuristic realm of ethical issues, the setting is efficiently described as the age of peace which seemingly manipulates time, alternate universes developing and evolving in somewhat unconventional places, and