Enders Game Book Compared to Movie

What could be better than a six year old boy killing two people, going to battle school, becoming a commander and killing an entire species? And he did all that by the time he was 13 years old. There’s a little bit of a difference between the book Enders game and the movie Ender Game. In the book Ender Wiggins was 6 years old and by the end he was 13 but in the movie he stayed 16 the whole time.

Ender did not have a good childhood. At the age of six he was changed from a little boy into a soldier in a six year old’s body. He was worked to the breaking point and even had a mental breakdown. Ender was take by th I.F. so that he could be trained to save the world, but he didn’t know that this involved, blocking all forms of contact with his family and being pushed to be perfect at everything until he had a mental break down. Somehow he managed to win the war, but as a result he became a young man with no friends and no life. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, demonstrates the effects of taking away children's rights by working them too hard, forcing them to solve every problem themselves, and are forced into armed combat against each other.

Undermined by dread of another extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity turns to the youngsters to get ready for the approaching war. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a novel and Ender's Game directed by Gavin Hood is the motion picture based – very loosely - on that novel. So how true to the book were these producers? Translating a 368 page military science fiction novel from 30 years back into a 2 hour film regardless of how well approached will have a few aspects of it hit the fan. With the principle force of the story being fixated on Ender's inward voice and several enormous subplots, a few components are sure to be not true to the book whatsoever.

Ender is a young boy that is very talented coming from a well known family. His mother, father, sister, and brother live on the planet considered earth, however, because the world is at stake he has been sent to space to train for war.“Battle School is where the best and brightest are trained to be military commanders through participation in intricate war games.” “I'm crazy," said Ender(Chapter 8). "But I think I'm OK(Chapter 8). Ender is not letting these fears and obstacles get in his way of achieving his goal as a commander and his understanding of what and why he was chosen to be in battle school so early. Based on the quote as they train him in the different direction from the way he used to live and the way they live the grown ups soon come to the understanding that he is intelligent and can be a great help for the battle against the buggers. As they continue to train through different section they become more and more interested into his thoughts tracking his every movement and soon inform him he will play a big part in their mission to save the

The first difference off the bat was Ender himself. In the book he was only 6, while the movie shows him as a 13 year old. His personality was also different. The book said Ender was only violent when he was hurt and provoked, but the movie shows us that he was always violent for no reason.

Being a regular high school student, I shocked myself because the fact that I actually decided to read a book at home from class without being forced.I could ultimately feel Ender’s emotions upon killing or hurting someone he did not want to hurt but he had to protect himself. Ender Wiggin was an intelligent child that was selected into the IF with the possibility of being the new commander of the third invasion of the buggers. Ender went through vigorous training and battles with other students at IF to earn his rank. He did not have the same path as the other students as the adults of the school wanted a lot out of Ender. I believe that the book was better than the movie because all though the movie could show emotion through a screen I still

The Ender’s Game book is superior than the film adaptation because the book has more of a detailed plot that the film left out. In the book, after the final battle

One of the first and biggest differences is the name of the aliens. In the book, the aliens that they are fighting are called buggers. However, in the movie they are called formics. The second big difference is the fight with Stilson. In the book, Ender fought Stilson outside their school by the buses, and Stilson ended up dying. The movie differs because Ender fights with Stilson

They’d say silly games cannot break a person until it happened. In 1985 Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game, tells the story of a young intelligent boy Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, who starts his life living in earth, but after 100 years of war with the Buggers. A weird alien species that want to destroy Earth, it comes time to find a hero. The International Fleet is seeking for the next modern Caesar or Alexander the Great of modern times that will save us all. Deciding that Ender Wiggin is their best chance they decide to put all the pressure of saving the humanity into the innocent boy. Orson Scott Card shows how an innocent child has to pay a personal cost by being molded to a legendary mastermind, broken soldier for the good of humanity.

Have you wanted to read a science fiction book with depth and meaning in the story but have trouble finding one. There is a book called Ender’s Game that has a good story and good characters that add meaning to the story. The book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is about kids fighting in a war with an alien race, but what it’s really about is Ender learning that the aliens aren’t actually bad, they are just different and misunderstood. In the same way we need to learn not to misjudge other people.

Ender wiggins played by Asa Butterfield,is a third in his family and says yes, into going to battle school. six year old Ender wiggins will find himself struggling to gain leadership while at battle school. Ender is pushed around and beat up until he finds a way to overcome his problem,but unlike every other lunchie Ender always out thinks his competition. Ender will make friends and enemies through his whole journey at battle school. In the movie Ender is a lot older than he is in the book and more mature than a six year old witch makes the movie better. Dap keeps the launchies in line in the book and movie making

In both the movie and the book, Ender graduated from “Launchy”, to soldier, to a commander of his own platoon, to a trainee for a commander, to Supreme Commander of the IF. In the movie, most of the promotions went smoothly and were similar with the book. All of these were similar up until the graduation from Battle School to Command School. In the book, Ender first fought Bonzo, and then proceeded to fight 2 armies, where afterward he was promoted from Battle School to Command School. In the movie, Ender first fought 2 armies, one of them being Bonzo’s.

“It admirably avoids many of the pitfalls of adapting this book, but seems to have lost some of the life and pace as well” - Helen O'Hara. Ender’s Game is a story about an eight year old boy, named Andrew Wiggen. He is enrolled into a military boot camp, where he and others are trained to play certain games, that will show their potential to lead a fleet against a constantly growing enemy. The movie Ender's Game miss Several themes and ideas of the book.

There were many differences between the book and the movie. The characters in the movie were very different from what I had imagined them to be. For example, in the book, Benjamin’s last name was different from that in the movie. In the movie the love story between Ben and Irene was were powerful watching, Reading it didn’t have the same effect as visually seeing it. In the movie, the scene where Irene tries to get Gomez to confess to the murder of Lilliana (she pushes him to the extreme) this was not in the book.

The movie adaptation of Ender’s Game avoids portraying as much child violence as the novel. Clearly addressed several times in the book, Ender worries about becoming a killer, like his brother Peter, yet he continues to inflict pain as if he forgot about attempting to avoid the seemingly inevitable: becoming malleable by surrounding influences. However, the movie plays Ender