Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is a book that envelops the reader and shows the world written inside clearly. Ender’s world is different from our own. Every family only has two children in America, and if the children are smart and show enough potential, they are taken at a young age to make them into soldiers and leaders to fight a war against the “buggers,” aliens, that have not showed in decades. Ender is a third child permitted by the government to try to perfect a leader. Being a “Third,” Ender has more problems in his life than others, but when he is taken to Battle School, his problems become very different. However, he finds a way to get through each difficult situation.
Since the book is written from a child’s point of view, it gives the reader a different perspective. Ender is a very intelligent child, but he is also a soldier. The teachers at Battle School want him to learn to follow but also lead. Along that journey though he realizes something all the other “soldiers” seem to miss; the rules are changing and they have to change with them. Ender sees that the world he was brought into is changing, and since he is able to see that, it gives the reader a very different perspective than if the book were written from an adult’s point of view.
Ender’s Game is a book about power plays and war, the devastation of it and how it can build a different society. It is a story that will envelop the reader and show a world that is very different from our own. I would encourage anyone to read the book and watch the film that came out in November 2013.