Ender's Game

My Book Report

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card/The Battle of the Universe!!

The name of this science/fantasy book is called Ender's Game. It is by Orson Scott Card. This book was published in the month of February of the year 2002, and it has three hundred and twenty four pages. In this book the most important character out of the whole entire book is: Ender.

Ender: His full name is Andrew "Ender" Wiggin. He is the hero in the story. At a very young age he is sent to Battle School, where he learns the basics of space travel, and battle. While he was there he makes new friends and enemies slowly as he rises in the ranks of the Battle School games. He is often challenged to make choices that may come in failure, usually he makes the right choice but often in the cost of something or someone. He loves his sister, Valentine, but as he goes to Battle School he slowly looses the connection between them. He dislikes his brother,Peter, and has hope that he will not become like Peter.

Valentine Wiggin: The protective, kind sister of Ender and Peter. Although she is kind, she can be very manipulative.

Peter Wiggin: A cruel, dark-hearted person, he would do anything to gain power over the world. As he grew older he manipulated people to thinking that he was smart, and the perfect model student. Each time he was being praised of being the model student, it took him one step closer to getting what he truly wanted: Power.

Mazer Rackham: He is a old man who lead the very first starship to war against the buggers. He is stubborn and strict, but he tries his best to teach Ender of how to face the challenges that will come before him during his time at Battle School.

Ender's game is about the struggles and challenges of a young boy who goes off into space to attend a school called: Battle School. There he is faced to many challenges such as choosing between enemies and friends, and of the upcoming pressure of the buggers coming. The buggers are the upcoming threat to Earth and life itself, that is why Ender is being trained to lead the bugger wars, to make sure humanity stays intact. Down on earth Valentine is coping with her own pressure such as the threat of Peter and his wanting for power and control, and whether or not she wants to be part of his take over for power. Later when Ender has succeeded in being a great leader of Battle School he is once again torn away from what he loves,friends, and is sent to the planet Eros to finish the final training of Battle School, there he meets a man named Mazer Rackham, he becomes his new teacher of training him how to defeat the buggers, control a fleet of star ships, and learn how to work together in a team against the seemingly impossible. Mazer then programs a game that helps Ender learn how to defeat the buggers, included with a fleet of star ships, and in that fleet was the friends he had met and worked with at his time at Battle School. After vigorous training with the game, Mazer Rackham decides to give him the final test, in that final test him and his friends seemed to be face with the impossible amount of enemies in the game, and after a risky try and quick, clever thinking, Ender wins the final battle of the game. What Ender doesn't understand is that there was stern, hard-eyed men to watch him during his final battle exam, but now they were jumping around with joy. Why were they jumping around, and this was a game right? WRONG!! Mazer Rackham explained to him that the game was the war, and he had won it.

What I love about this book is the idea of adventure/traveling, and the whole concept of space travel. I think other people would like this book because it's filled with adventure, and action. For example Ender is constantly having a battle, or conflict with someone else, so some people would maybe like the drama involved with the book. Since there is A LOT of drama involved with this book. I would recommend this book to people ages ten and up, and who also like video games because this book revolves around space games. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves to read.

Here are some facts that you may want to know:

The genre of this book is: science fiction fantasy.
The setting of this book takes place on Earth, space, and the planet Eros.
The publisher of this book is Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
The audience of this book should be for people who are ages ten and up.
This book was published in the month of February, of the year 2002.
This book has three hundred and twenty four pages.
This is a Starscape Book.

To learn more about Orson Scott Card and his books, click here. Orson Sott Card

Brittany O.