book review :)

Brenton Owens

Ms.Fletcher

Period 4

Book Review: Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card put endless hours of imagination and creative thinking into his novel, Ender’s Game. This novel could easily be mistaken for a portable movie with no pictures, no sounds, simply page after page of riveting action and excitement. Instead, Orson Scott Card depicted vivid pictures and shattering sounds with his writing technique that is unlike any other. There were times I was reading this book at home and wouldn’t even go to the bathroom until finished the page. There were even a couple times I would pass down some of my mother’s amazing cooking just to finish up a chapter or two. My imagination was completely engulfed in Orson Card’s novel leaving all outside matters insubordinate.

The setting of Ender’s Game is in the far future here on Earth, when humans are in a galactic war with advanced aliens they call Buggers. The main character in Ender’s Game is pretty self explanatory in the title. This young boy is Ender Wiggin, an eleven year old military prodigy. He has two siblings, one by the name of Valentine and the other Peter. Both older than him share completely different types of love for Ender. Valentine is his loving caring sister, and Peter openly shows his hate and jealousy towards Ender with acts of violence. One time at their home Peter almost chocked Ender unconscious until Valentine mediated to save Ender. Even under all the violence and pressure at home being the unwanted third child, which is illegal in the future, Ender continued to wow the military with his brilliance and knack for defeating opponents physically and mentally.

He soon enough was sent to their outer space military war preparation base. There he encountered more hatred by others, but this time by fellow soldiers in training. They envied that he was so small yet so much more advanced than them. He was in fact so advanced that one of the Colonels, a man by the name of Colonel Graff, set him up to lead active fleets into battle against the Buggers. Colonel Graff tricked Ender by telling him the battle was a simulation on the computer. He did this so Ender would not feel the extra pressure. The battle took days and many strategic maneuvers that ended in success for Ender and mankind.

Throughout the novel Ender was confronted with challenges by loved ones and peers. Each time he came out a stronger person, wiser than he was before each obstacle. This connects to the books theme that Card made apparent, never back down and cower from any challenge, to successfully give it your all and become a stronger person. I completely agree with this theme and recommend this book to anyone that enjoys an exciting action packed story.