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    “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone” (Hans F. Hansen). The book Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, describes the journey Ender took to stand alone and become a leader. At the age of six, Ender qualified to go to battle school, and he made the decision to go. This choice affected the rest of his life. Battle school is a school in space where children have education, but also learned to fight buggers. They played games which they fought each other in anti-gravity battle

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    Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card while it is not the most faithful to the source material is an extremely well done movie. The first thing it does is that it doesn’t do anything with the whole speaker of the dead part of the story which is the most disappointing part of the book so that right there is a big plus in my eyes. When it comes to the fight scenes in the battle arena the movie does its best to pull a faithful idea from the book while to make it exactly the way

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    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. In

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    Ender’s Game The Novel: Ender’s Game, is a science fiction written by Orson Scott Card. The book takes place in the distant future where a group of aliens labeled “Buggers” are at war with the human race. Kids starting at the age of three, wear a monitor on their neck to determine if they are eligible for battle school: training in space for military combat. Andrew Wiggin, nicknamed “Ender” is sent to battle school but is unaware of the high hopes of the men pulling the strings have for him. As

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    questions arise and the one that stands out is the worth of man. Humans are cruel and will do anything to defend themselves regardless if it is preventing the new generation of having the childhood and innocence they deserve. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card uses perfect reflections on society and how people become, or have yet to become. Every person Ender meets will influence both the reader and Ender’s opinion on the human race. Will the rare oddity of a kind personality overcome the depression,

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    The book novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a book of perseverance and smarts and the benefits of being unique. It is 2135, long after the first space launch on October 4, 1957. Human technology has advanced for beyond dreams. As our technology advances so does human kinds greatest enemy, the buggers. Many of the governments have worked together to build a space army. It requires the smartest of all humans on Earth. To determine who is really the smartest they put little computers on your

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    Sometimes, I borrowed from my brother the books he read for high school. One day, as I searched his bookshelves, I selected a book called Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. This would later become one of my most cherished novels and one I've read regularly since. It taught me what it means to never give up, to sacrifice yourself for others, and to inspire others to be better. Most importantly it taught me to recognize

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    What if the world had no violence? In the scientific novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender trains for a "game" to fight against invaders. In this narrative, the main components include exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution in which Ender's journey goes through a beginning, middle, and end.   First, the exposition introduces us to the setting which is a future Earth under attack from aliens called Buggers and also to the protagonist, Ender, a boy who displays both intelligence

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    It is amazing how siblings can be so similar yet so different. In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, there are three siblings that all affect one another. However, both siblings affect Ender in very different ways. Ender’s older sister Valentine is very sweet and compassionate to others. She would help Ender with anything she could and be there for him to give advice. Ender was a lot like her, he never wanted to hurt anybody and he was quiet but polite. Valentine was Ender’s best friend,

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    Story: The book, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, revolved around a young boy, Andrew ‘Ender’ Wiggin, who was isolated and manipulated by adults to lead an army at a young age. Right from the beginning, even before entering Battle School to begin training to be commander, adults began taking action to take Ender under their control, preparing him for something they believed to be right. Ender was tested and pushed past his limits throughout his Battle School years, but they still persisted, forcing

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