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    Have you ever had to make a seemingly impossible decision? If so, it probably wasn’t like Ender’s from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game is a book about a boy named Ender who has been selected to train to become a soldier by the government. Ender is confronted with a choice to leave his family and siblings to train to become a soldier until he is sixteen, there is no breaks and you don’t get to visit except once when you turn twelve. Ender the main character from the book was at first

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    Hardrod Kushner, a popular author and American rabbi, once said, “ I think of life as a good book the further you get into it the more it begins to make sense.” Over the course of a book, through character development and finding the author’s message, the reader begins to understand the values that are present in the book. Different books, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, and Fahrenheit 451, all have values that can be found in other books, like Ender’s Game. An examination of

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    Enders Game novel by Orson Scott Card and the film by Gavin Hood had too many differences. The film compared to the book, is practically totally different and had significant changes in the plot line and the setting. The movie was simplified to fit the normal movie length. The age of almost all the characters were changed along with some of their background. Among all the things that were different was also most of the characters development especially, Enders emotional development trough out the

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    Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, is a science fiction novel that partially signifies our world today. The book “Ender’s Game” is futuristic and holds possibility for what is yet to come in the future. The characters of the novel display choices and regulations to overcome fear and make the right choices to gain power. Ender, Valentine, and Peter are all related and they share the same blood, but they are all both different in nature and personality. Valentine and Peter are both opposite while Ender

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    The Doppelgänger Effect Ender’s Game    Orson Scott Card is a science-fiction/fantasy writer only in the sense that the setting that he uses fits the definition of the genre.  His writings deal with many relevant social issues that most people have not noticed and/or refuse to acknowledge.  His book, Ender’s Game, is a subtle study of many of these issues.  This story of a boy genius shows, in slightly less than subtle terms, the horrible cruelty of children, and the immense amount of pressure

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    hurt some of the people. Also, when people get into conflicts there might be serious consequences afterward. They could get into trouble or get hurt. In Ender's Game Orson Scott card uses the narrative convention, conflict, to show that for any chance of happiness, it is important to get along with others. In Ender's Game, Card uses the narrative convention conflict to show that for any chance of happiness, it is important to get along with others. The first conflict was, human versus human and Ender

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    Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game shows what our society would be like if the government went back on their promise to leave children out of war. Aside from genocide one of the main human rights issues in Enders game is the use of child soldiers. During my research I learned that child soldiers are still a very real thing in today's modern world in fact there are over 300,000 child soldiers worldwide according to my New York times source, although it does not cross many people's minds using children

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    In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, the reader's start off by being introduced to the character of Ender, who was extremely smart, intelligent, and fearless throughout the story. He is not only a very important character, but he is the protagonist of the story. Ender has made some tough decisions throughout his time in training and being in multiple different army. Ender is just a six-year-old boy facing challenges that not even an adult would want to face. It's hard to comprehend the age

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    Ender's Game Theme Essay

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    Ender’s theme: Always making a good choice for others to benefit even though it may not be the correct one. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, shows on numerous occasions that some of the choices characters in the book have to make can be very difficult including Ender. Throughout Ender’s early life, he was constantly bullied by his brother and classmates They would be waiting, though, the bad ones. It was Stilson, of course. He wasn’t bigger than most other kids, but he was bigger than Ender. And

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    Courageous The novel, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Extremely Loud Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer display the quest pattern throughout the novel. Protagonists, Ender and Oskar both stay courageous towards their adventures. In the novel Ender's Game, This is Ender's chance to get away from Peter and live a beating free life. Ender knows he has to go because he had no choice, “ Your son has been cleared by the IF Selective Service. Of course we already have your consent, granted

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