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Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card
The novel Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card involved many issues that you would ordinarily surpass such as manipulating a single person for the greater good whether it destroys them mentally and physically. At first glance of the book I would have ignored it due to me not being a huge fan of sci-fi books, but Ender’s Game put me in a trance. It inflicted an emotional thorn that pierced through my heart making me wait with anticipation for the day our class would watch the movie. While the movie was better than I imagined it would be, it lacked emotion.
The casting of younger children or those who appear to still have childish features would have impacted the audience greatly seeing as little children have the effect of warming hearts
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Ender’s worst enemy was himself always finding a comparison between his older brother and himself finding no light within him. Peter who was fast to inflict pain, and, had an agenda of ruling the world. Valentine the accomplice, forced into submission, the only person who picked up Ender’s shattered heart and tired everything to put it back together. All Ender had ever done was for Valentine and to cut off the emotional threads between them and replace it with Petra did not cut it with me. “The same voice that he would do anything to keep alive, even return to school, even leave Earth behind again for another four or forty or four thousand years. Even If she loved Peter more,” The novel Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card involved many issues that you would ordinarily surpass such as manipulating a single person for the greater good whether it destroys them mentally and physically. At first glance of the book I would have ignored it due to me not being a huge fan of sci-fi books, but Ender’s Game put me in a trance. It inflicted an emotional thorn that pierced through my heart making me wait with anticipation for the day our class would watch the movie. While the movie was better than I imagined it would be, it lacked

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