Enders Game a Hit
Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” is the first in a six book series. A book, that I can only describe as one, that does not want to be laid down. Card keeps the interest of the reader from the first word to the last paragraph. The evolution of the characters is enough to keep the pages turning. Gripping conflict and vivid imagery complete this work into an award winning novel. Children change from kids playing with blocks to young adults playing with guns, years before their time. All of them specially chosen to attend the prestigious “battle school”. One of the youngest students, Andrew Wiggin, better known as Ender, has been recruited as the “one”. The one who will save the world from the aliens that have almost obliterat
ed the human race twice. Ender’s struggles with the isolation of first being a third, a third child almost never occurs in the future due to over-population, and then being dubbed the smartest, quickest, and best soldier in school creates tension that you can almost feel. Card also places a large emphasis on the conflicts between the genius students and their teachers. Card uses colorful imagery to describe perfectly the living conditions in space. The reader can almost imagine being in the dark, cold barracks with the young children. Card knows how to affectively describe the battle school itself as well as the battles that the children participate in the anti-gravity rooms. It’s hard not to imagine yourself there amongst the brilliant
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