Ender's Game

As individuals age, they gain knowledge but also lose certain things. In Orson Scott’s novel “Enders Game,” children represent hope. As people grow older, they exchange innocence for intelligence and naivety for caution. Adults view the sense of wonder in a child’s eyes skeptically and fail to recognize their capacity for love, ability to appreciate…

The book Ender’s Game was published in 1985, under the author Orson Scott Card. Ender’s Game was Card’s most well known book and won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1986. The book is a futuristic science fiction, where humans and aliens are war bound. I really love this book. It’s interesting how an author…

In times and places quite different, but both struck with war times, two boys would seem to be very different. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives in a future under threat of buggers. Ralph is stuck on an island with many other boys during a war when their plane was shot down. However, both boys have quite…

Imagine a world in which your childhood was stripped away from you. One that forced you into slavery, the military, or even marital trades. In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, this is exactly the kind of world the main characters are living in. Ender was taken to become a member of the…

Sometimes, defining science fiction can be maddening, as Quentin Cooper points out in his BBC article. James Gunn defines science fiction as “the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often…

“Sometimes, lies are more dependable than the truth.” This famous one-liner mentioned in the novel, Ender’s Game, is the foundation of Ender’s experiences throughout his journey towards the Third Invasion. However, it is never mentioned in the movie adaption— how could the director possibly leave such an important message out? Unfortunately, this isn’t the only…