Analysis Of Ender's Game

“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy" (Card, 8.134). This shows the immense pressure put on children to behave more like adults throughout Ender’s Game. Ender’s Game has an action pact plot that focuses on the main character, Ender, maturing into a commander to save the human race. The story starts out with young boy named Ender, who is very intelligent in a school with regular kids, being monitored by the International Fleet so that they can decide whether he will make it into battle school. After many stressful encounters …show more content…
In both the book and movie Ender undergoes a tough recruitment process to join the International Fleet’s battle school. To get into the battle school Ender must wear a monitor for several years that transmits all of his thoughts and feelings to the International Fleet so that they can understand everything about him. While he wears the monitor Ender undergoes torment from other children because they fear him due to his intelligence and superiority on all levels. Ender also undergoes worse physical and emotional torment from other children and his brother after he gets his monitor taken out because that projected that he had been denied which allowed other children to believe that they were as good as or better than Ender. This added depth to the story by showing what Ender had to go through to begin his journey. Another similarity between the book and the movie was the fact that the children believed and sometimes acted in the belief that the teachers were the enemy. Throughout the book and movie Ender is faced with tough challenges that are specially brought upon him by the teachers in order to test his limits. He starts to believe and understand that they are only trying to make him the best soldier possible regardless of his emotional state. "And with that anger, he decided he was strong enough to defeat them-the teachers, his enemies" (Card, 172). This shows Ender had built …show more content…
The main differences that I saw between the two were character development, details, and an overall better timing of event. Although the movie wasn’t horrible it did not develop its characters like the book was able to. Character development is a key aspect of a story that allows the reader/watcher to connect with the characters, understand why they make certain decisions, and to form emotional ties with the story. Throughout the book Orson Scott Card adds immense details on Enders life that allow us to connect with him. Some of the details that the book showed that the movie did not were Enders hatred of Peter, intelligence, and the effect being a third had on Ender. All of these combined allowed us readers to connect and understand Ender which eaily increased the enjoyment from reading the book. All of the characters were developed in the book in such a way that brought them all closer together and explained some of the weird situations in the book and movie. There were many details that did not make it from the book to the movie which caused the movie to be boring and have less meaning behind certain important scenes. A prime example of this is Enders important strategy of not just defeating the enemy, but destroying it. The book showed three great examples of this that add together and allow us to better understand why Ender acted so