Ender's Game Movie And Book Comparison Essay

Ender’s Game is a novel about a child who voluntarily made the decision to military school in order to train to eventually fight in an alien invasion. When reading the novel, the reader is presented with the idea of taking someone’s childhood in order to win. When watching the movie, the viewer gets to see children fighting and preparing for a battle without knowing the overall purpose and message of the novel. Ender’s Game is asking if it is morally correct to train a child for war. In the end though, the novel shows a more fitting message than the movie portrays it.
After viewing/reading the movie and book Ender’s Game there are many slight or major changes, most notably, the endings are very different, yet similar in certain aspects . Furthermore, the movie concludes with Ender floating in space, protecting the last bugger egg left after destroying the planet. Yet, in the book, Ender is the Speaker For The Dead, travelling to different planets, after dealing with destroying the planet.This quote tells the reader what Ender and Valentine did with their lives after the war“So they boarded a spaceship from world to world. Wherever they stopped he was always Ender Wiggin.” (323). Ender is eventually known for killing the entire bugger planet., notably after his sister Valentine
It starts to take place in the future, located in Florida, United States. The only difference I picked up between the movie and novel, however is the moment where Ender was present near Graffs cabin building a raft, whereas the movie abruptly went past this scene. Ender has always been misunderstood in his life, such as this quote that proves this, ¨That’s where you’re mistaken. He’s even sweeter than he looks (28). Even though this scene appears minor, it was the only place where Ender felt human, and could do what he wanted. I think that this was included to show that they didn’t completely rip out Ender’s childhood out from