Great Expectations And Ender's Game Comparison
Great Expectations and Ender's Game
Ender's game is a book, by Orson Scott Card, about a young boy named Ender who commits his whole childhood to saving the world from a third alien invasion. Great expectations is a story, by Charles Dickens, of a young boy who aspires to become a gentleman and out of all odds he is able to make it into higher society. Both Enders game and Great Expectations tell the story of young boys who strive to become something greater than what they are. Although the story line of each book is different, Pip and Ender are similar in many ways as well. Both Ender and pips stories start around the time they were six. I believe the authors chose to start it from this point to show how much they develop as a character throughout the books. In the beginning for Great expectations pip is ambitious. At the start of Ender's game, Ender had not set any true goals for himself. Ender never possessed the optimistic trait that pip had throughout the first part of the novel. The beginning of Pip and Ender as characters shows how different their childhoods are. While Ender had a more fortunate childhood in the beginning, with both parents and didn't have to worry about schooling, Pip did not live with his parents and was raised by his sister who didn't care if pip ever got a real school …show more content…
In Enders game It first mentions his issue with his brother in the beginning. “And Peter won't hate me anymore. I'll come home and show him that the monitor's gone....That I'll just be a normal kid now, like him.” (Orson Scott card. Ender's Game, Page 2). In Great expectations Pip thinks about his parents. “As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them...my first fancies regarding what they were like unreasonably derived from their tombstones.” (Charles Dickens. Great Expectations, Page
Ender's game is a book, by Orson Scott Card, about a young boy named Ender who commits his whole childhood to saving the world from a third alien invasion. Great expectations is a story, by Charles Dickens, of a young boy who aspires to become a gentleman and out of all odds he is able to make it into higher society. Both Enders game and Great Expectations tell the story of young boys who strive to become something greater than what they are. Although the story line of each book is different, Pip and Ender are similar in many ways as well. Both Ender and pips stories start around the time they were six. I believe the authors chose to start it from this point to show how much they develop as a character throughout the books. In the beginning for Great expectations pip is ambitious. At the start of Ender's game, Ender had not set any true goals for himself. Ender never possessed the optimistic trait that pip had throughout the first part of the novel. The beginning of Pip and Ender as characters shows how different their childhoods are. While Ender had a more fortunate childhood in the beginning, with both parents and didn't have to worry about schooling, Pip did not live with his parents and was raised by his sister who didn't care if pip ever got a real school …show more content…
In Enders game It first mentions his issue with his brother in the beginning. “And Peter won't hate me anymore. I'll come home and show him that the monitor's gone....That I'll just be a normal kid now, like him.” (Orson Scott card. Ender's Game, Page 2). In Great expectations Pip thinks about his parents. “As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them...my first fancies regarding what they were like unreasonably derived from their tombstones.” (Charles Dickens. Great Expectations, Page