Ender's Game

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Summary: Ender's Game Review
Review: On Ender's Game from a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best) I give it a 9. Orison Scott Card wrote a terrific book about another world in which bugs from another planet try to invade earth. To stop them, the bugs, Earth's defense has to recruit young boys. Train them in war tactics, teach them how to be leaders, and school them as well. In the beginning of the book you read and get lost of who is who. The main character is a boy name Ender; his real name is Andrew Wiggin. Orison wrote Ender's name as Andrew in the beginning but doesn't tells us that he was Ender later on. That's the only confusion I found in the book other wise Ender's Game is a fun and adventurous book that you won't be able to put down. The book leaves you on the edge of your seat every time you turn the page. If you like books that are about outer space and the Star Wars series like then this is the book I would recommend for you. It has romance, action, and betrayal all the things to make a book irresistible and unpredictable. Orison Scott Card made the book fun to read for ages 10 and up. He won the Nebula and the Hugo awards for Ender's Game, if you like this book then you should try out the other books in the Ender's Game series.

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Summary: Up There with All the Great Coming of Age Stories
Review: Ender's Game deserves more than to be one of the best Sci-Fi books of all time. It has all the elements: space, galactic war, imperial powers beyond individual control.

In the end, though, Ender's Game is one of the great coming-of-age novels ever written, write up there with "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Catcher in the Rye." The story follows a young man through trials that force him into adulthood. Ender is the perfect young man: intelligent, angry at his powerlessness, his views fixed by his parents and society as an outcast.

Through the story we see him grow, but not through contrived dialogue and classic "firsts." There is no loss of virginity, or facial hair, or "chats" with pop. Ender learns to win through competition; he learns of the power of force through beatings. He learns of oppression through futile dealings with magistrates. He also learns of camaraderie from friends, and of himself through isolation.

The two greatest lessons he learns, however, are the tragedy of the story. He learns objectivity only too late, despite a video game that begs his attention to it repeatedly; when he exterminates a race of beings with whom he feels an unknown connection. And he learns responsibility when he devotes his life to preserving their memory.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is the story of the future, but don't relegate it to the sci-fi shelves. For it is also a story of struggle, pain, of mistakes, and of learning. It deserves to be right up there on the classics rack.

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Summary: Ender's Game is the best science fiction book around
Review: When Ender Wiggin was taken to battle school, he had no knowledge of what he had said yes to.
Time is running out for the battle schoolteachers as well as the planet earth. The buggers (who are a species of alien) have attacked earth twice already. The IF (International Fleet) must destroy them, and their home planet once and for all. The teachers try to keep secrets from the battle school geniuses, but one thing that can't be kept secret is that the third battle is about to begin.
In a last effort the IF begins training geniuses at an early age. They do it so they have a suitable fleet when they start the third battle at the Bugger's home planet. There is almost no hope of winning the final battle in which one race must come to an end, but can the human race stay alive? Or will the buggers defeat them once and for all?

Ages 11-adult. I have seen kids and adults reading this book so its great for anyone.

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Summary: Attack of the Buggers
Review: Ender's Game is one of the best books since The Lord Of The Rings. Orson Scott Card captures the life of a boy. Ender is sent into a battle school to train to fight the Formics, or Buggers, the evil alien race bent on destroying Earth. When the teachers start destroying all his advantages in training games for the sole purpose of challenging him, Ender doesn't know what to do!

This book has many tense, exiting moments, and it has its sorrowful, sober parts. It uses wonderful words and similes. There is an adventurous storyline, and it makes us all hope Ender beats the Buggers. You will never want to stop reading this exiting book once you start it I guarantee it!

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Summary: good one
Review: it was the greatest sci fi book ive ever read!

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Summary: Earth's New Commander
Review: Young Ender Wiggin is a six-year-old boy who is expected to become the best commander ever in Earth's military history. Mankind is hoping that he will be good enough to lead Earth in a battle to defeat alien "Buggers" that might take over our homeland.
Ender goes through levels in his military training starting at "Battle School", where kids learn to fight in a war-like game and learn simple battle tactics. Ender is a quick learner and is advanced to higher levels at school, until he becomes commander of a school army. Eventually Ender gains knowledge of all battle techniques and becomes a great teacher. At an extremely young age, after mastering everything at "Battle School", Ender is moved on to "Command School", skipping "Tactics School".
At "Command School", Ender is isolated from the older boys and plays a new game called "The Simulator" all by himself. During the rest of his day he is taught by the old commander, Mazer Rackham, who was able to stop the "Buggers" the first time they invaded Earth. Ender soon gets to play a new version of "The Simulator", where he gets to contact his old friends at "Battle School" over a "walkie talkie" device. Ender is the commander and leads his friends. They learn to fight vs. the computer and end up winning every battle set up for them. In the end Ender finds out the computer was actually the "Buggers" and he was commanding Earth's army along with his friends.
I recommend Enders Game to any reader, because Mr. Card is able to make the main character Ender, relate to the reader and make the story seem real. When you finish reading the book you just have to sit there and think about how captivating the book was. While reading the story, you read Ender's thoughts and it helps bring him to life. Once you start reading the story, you'll never want to put the book down. The book can also help you to understand life better and teach you a little bit about military tactics.

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Summary: An Amazing Science Fiction Novel
Review: An alien species has destroyed much of Earth's population and to

ensure that the human race will continue, the world government

has started raising military geniuses to command Earth's armies.

Ender Wiggin is a normal six year old boy when a representative

from an outer space training school for gifted children asks if

he would like to join in training for war. When Ender arrives

at Battle School he notices that the students are evaluated

through Battle Room games in which children are separated into

armies of forty each under a commander. Capabilities for

command, following orders, initiative, and more are all noted

down by teachers observing these battles between armies.

Ender Wiggin displays his brilliance in these battles and

quickly rises through the ranks. Unfortunately, his rise to

power also brings powerful enemies and dangers he never even

dreamed of.

Ender passes through the dangers at Battle School and goes on to

Command School. In Command School Ender is placed in charge of

the International Fleet in war against the alien race known as

the Buggers.

Ender Wiggin is extremely intelligent and highly qualified for

the responsibilities that he is being given, namely saving the

planet Earth, but is he smart enough to defeat a seemingly

unstoppable alien invasion?

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who like to

read science fiction novels for a variety of reasons. First,

children who read this book are really able to relate to the

children in the novel. Also, the plot is simple the ideas and

subplots are often quite interesting and complex. Finally, the

characters, their actions and feelings, and the situations are

very real and make you want to keep on reading.

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Summary: Ender¿s Game
Review: In Ender's Game Orson Scott Card uses the literary term foil, many times though out the novel. The literary term foil, helps strengthen the novel. This is because of how Scott, uses it to compare and contrast all of the different characters. One of those instants of foil is Ender and Peter. Another foil found, is Valentine and Peter. The last foil is Ender basically against most of his battle school. These three foils show how different people contrast in the novel.
The first time that foil is shown in the novel is Peter against Ender. Peter is the older brother of Ender and constantly bully's and treats Ender as if he is nothing. Ender takes all of the things Peter does to him, but in his head he wishes Peter would die. The reason Ender thinks this is because Peter tells him that he will kill him if Ender doesn't do something for him. Finally, when Enders rage all finally comes out, he takes it out on a school bully and not Peter. Even after this Peter still bullies and treats Ender bad.
The second foil found in Ender's Game is Valentine and Peter. Valentine is the middle child in the Wiggin Family and Peter also bully's her in the beginning of the novel. He treats her the same way in which he treats Ender. But, after Ender is taking away to Battle School, Peter stops the bullying and starts to get good grades. Valentine soon figures out that Peter and Ender were almost the same, expect Ender would never act in the way Peter does by bullying.
The third foil that is in Ender's Game is Ender against his Battle School. At Battle School Ender is an outsider, because he is new, young, and dose not know what will happen there. Then, to make it worse, Ender helps win a battle and becomes Number 1 on the ratings at Battle School. This makes all the kids at Battle School despise Ender. Ender soon finds out that Battle School is not all that great, but he still stays in the top spot of the standings. This foil shows that if someone is good at something, but someone else is not, you will be despised.
The foil that Orson Scott Card uses does help in reading his novel Ender's Game. This is because he uses it to show a different prospective on how life is like when everyone seems like any enemy to you. Also, Card uses it to bring out different sides to characters, that we don't see usually. The literary term foil is one that helps create a different tone on the whole novel, which Orson Scott Card does well.

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Summary: Enders Game Review
Review: Ender's Game
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a book about a boy who trains in space where military tactics are learned through games. Ender has a tough journey and makes many enemies. Everybody knows that the teachers survey everything the kids do, and put the kids to the test. The real test is the game itself, there are usually two teams that fight fake battles. This book shows that small people can do great things. It is an exciting, easy to read book, time goes fast as you're taken through Ender's journey.
Orson Scott Card made this book for people of most ages, it is a fairly simple book that captivating, once you start reading it's hard to put down. This book takes you through a changing time in Ender's life. He goes from looking up to the teachers to hating the teachers. He also becomes much more mature as he goes through battle school.
At the same time his brother and sister, who were both rejected from battle school, were influencing the world politically Peter is hoping for something bad, but Valentine wants the outcome to be good. I think that this is a very important part of the novel because it contrasts the good from the evil. Peter being the evil and Ender and Valentine being the good. It is a battle between good and evil through the whole book.
In my opinion Ender's Game is a great book, I like it the most because of Ender's brilliance and his search to find out everything he can about battle school without the teachers finding anything about him. It keeps you on the edge almost the whole book wanting to find out what will happen next in the brutal world at battle school. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and sci-fi. It is a great book about a young boy trying to make it through battle school, but he doesn't know that the fate of the human race has been placed on his shoulders.

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Summary: Imagery important in story.
Review: Imagery gives an author total control over one's imagination. It helps them to form the most vivid and beautiful images in our mind's eye. Some authors take a less direct approach to imagery however. Orson Scott Card who wrote ender's game let's our imagination roam freely in his novel. Rather than painting a blend of color in our minds he rather explores what we as individuals might see. If two readers of ender's game were to compare thoughts as to how they viewed parts of the book, the comparison would be quite different. Some might say that Card lacks imagery and that it was hard to see what the author was talking about. The lack of imagery did not hinder the story however as we see ender as an extremely round and deep character. Perhaps Card wished to emphasize the true complexity of ender rather than distract us with deep or exciting images. Card story does not need imagery to compel a reader to explore the pages of the novel. The so called "lack" helps isolate the reader into his or her own view on the book. What we gain from the novel is almost completely formed from our own images rather than the author's written one's. This is why some hate the book, because of their own lack of imagination rather than the author's lack of descriptive images. A little more imagery would have taken away from our own mind. And our own thoughts are always more important than the author's.