Compare And Contrast Ender's Game Movie And Book

Comparative Essay Being pushed to your breaking point. Most of us can’t deal with that or come back from it in one piece. Now imagine that happening to a child. Most adults couldn’t deal with that never the less a child. Well, that’s Ender in Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. “’Ender, we want you help you be as happy as possible, but if you—‘ ‘you want to make me the best solider possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you’re doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?’” (191, Card). Enders Game is about a boy, Ender, who goes to “Battle School” and is told that he can save the world from the aliens the “Buggers” by doing so. The rest of
One of them was a scene in the movie, that was also explained in the book, that had a lot to do with the manipulation of Ender at battle school. When Colonel Graff asked all the launchies a question about gravity, none know the answer, except Ender of course. After Enders answer, Graff replies with “There’s only one boy on this launch with any brains at all, and that’s Ender Wiggin. Take a good look at him, little boys. He’s going to be a commander when you’re still in diapers up there. Because he knows how to think in null gravity, and you just want to throw up” (31-32 Card). From this, all of the other boys hate Ender. This is a very important part in the story, like I said earlier, it shows Graffs manipulation whish has a huge role in the story and I’m glad they put this scene into the movie. Another good similarity they had between the book and the movie was that Ender got to command his own army. This really tells us how smart Ender is to be able to command an army (Dragon Army). Lastly, the fact that Ender felt bad after destroying the Buggers showed up in the movie also was important. Showing his “inner Valentine”. There weren’t a lot, but those are some of the important similarities between the book and movie of Enders