From the cover:
Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits, Ender proves himself to be a genius among geniuses. In simulated war games, he excels. But is the pressure and loneliness taking its toll on Ender? Simulations are one thing. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions? After all, Battle School is just a game. Right?
Search for self:
As Ender trains to become a soldier, he begins to loose part of himself, and he deeply fears becoming like his worst tormentor--his brother, Peter.
This sci-fi classic will make you consider the possiblities for our future and make you examine the reality of your present.
Join us to discuss this novel on Wednesday, November 10, in the library after school.
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The ending caught me off guard; I didn’t expect to see that the games were actually real. I was beginning to think that the war didn’t even exist. Card did an excellent job of developing each individual character and their personal battles, especially Ender.
The cover seems to catch some off guard. When I first saw the book, I can’t lie; I began to judge the book by its cover. It fits well to the battles in the book, and it gives you an idea of how the rooms were set up, as well as seeing what the flash suits actually looked like. The cover gives the book a childish like appearance and made me somewhat dread the contents of it; but the book is far from being for children.
Card made outstanding use of his imagination when creating “Ender’s game.” He made an entirely new strategy for looking at technology. He made up many things I haven’t read before, like the battle school and the way the administrators acted like gods controlling Enders life monitoring his emotions and coming up with ways to test him by studying his every movement, forcing him to his fullest capability.
I believe that Andrew Wiggin’s nick name Ender, is more than just a nick name he is called, but really what he is. He is the Ender. He ended the war with the buggers, all bugger life, the way the game was played at battle school, and the lives of two boys. As well as being the ender of many things, Ender was also the beginning of things: the new population of buggers, a new idea of looking at the buggers, and beginning a new colony. Ender is a contradiction of himself, and I believe that his life in this story stands for something other than what is in the parameters of cover to cover. I just can’t quite focus my mind there yet, but it will come to me I hope.
I'm not sure if I will be at the meeting or not so I thought i would leave my thoughts on the bolg. This was an amazing book! The characters were very well developed and I could never predict exactly what Ender was going to do next.
I thought the mind game that the children were encouraged to play was very interesting. I want to know how Ender managed to beat an unbeatable game. In playing the game, not only did his superiors learn more about Ender's thought process, but he also learned more about himself. This game is what allowed him to find the Hive Queen's caccoon at the end of the story. The caccoon gives Ender a chance to redeem himself for destorying an entire race of sentient beings.
I was sort of mad at the trainers at the school. I can understand why they set Ender apart but I think it was totally unfair. It was also unfair of them to almost break Ender's willpower by preesing him so hard with so many battles once he became a commander.
I liked the way Ender fought his battles in the battle room. His new and unusal way of thinking made the game a completly different playing field. One thing I learned from another book that i though was very interesting was that Bean was Ender;s superior intellectually and that he could have taken control during that very last battle when Ender froze. Bean was a good back up, but I'm glad that Ender was the actual commander. He understood the Buggers a lot better and could make more educated decisions on tactics based on what he knew.
When i found out that Ender had killed two other children I was somewhat appalled. Even though it was unintentional, this showed early on that Ender had the capability to destry the Buggers, even if he knew nothing about it. He was ruthless and clever enough to outsmart an intlligent and more physically capable opponent.
After reading this book, i was inspired to read the rest of the story that follows in the other books that Scoot has written. These really help the reader to understand even better Enbder's world and how he feels. These books explore more of Ender's life, Bean's story, and the story of the rise of Peter the Hegemon.
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