When hostile aliens called the Formics attack Earth, only the legendary heroics of Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) manage to attain a victory. To prepare for the next attack, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and his cohorts initiate a military program to find the next Mazer. Recruit Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) exhibits an unusual gift for the training, easily mastering all of the challenges thrown at him. Mazer Rackham, himself, takes Ender as a protege to prepare him for the oncoming war.Ender's Game / Film synopsis

Leadership. It's no surprise that Ender's Game deals extensively with the theme of a leadership. Almost all of the characters are in the military, so their very existence depends upon leading and following orders. Early on, Card makes it clear that leadership can only be gained over time.

For the people who truly love this book, usually it's because, like Ender, we were born into a world feeling different and lonely, and found ourselves through realizing this difference is a gift. Many books are about this basic theme, but few are so psychological, unadorned, and emotional.

Let's get the obvious answer out of the way: this book is called “Ender's Game” because it's primarily about a kid called Ender, who happens to spend most of his time playing games. So Ender + games = “Ender's Game.”

Ender's Game is unique among alien vs. human science fiction novels in that it raises deep ethical questions about the nature of “the other.” The rest of the series continues the ethical questions, deepening and complicating them, challenging the reader to reflect on his or her own understanding of the other.

One lesson that Ender learned early on in Battle School was this: “soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.” He applied that lesson to his own Army, counting on his subordinates to use their own initiative and ideas to achieve the objectives they've been given, rather ...

His compassion is his strongest trait, and it binds people to him; his ruthlessness wins their unswerving faith in him as a commander. Ender could be seen as a victim, a brilliant child manipulated by adults into playing a game he never wanted to play, but such an explanation is too simplistic.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

Science fictionEnder's Game / Genre Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past.

Ender's Game received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing only $125.5 million on a $110–115 million budget.

Now there is no war to be fought, and he does not have to destroy someone else's enemy. Ender is free to understand and to love, and that is why he agrees to help the buggers find a new home. He has to make up for the crimes that he committed.

Ender WigginBeanMazer RackhamPeter WigginHive QueenValentine Wiggin Ender's Game/Characters

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the protagonist of the Ender quintet and is present in the Bean quartet.

Let's get the obvious answer out of the way: this book is called “Ender's Game” because it's primarily about a kid called Ender, who happens to spend most of his time playing games. So Ender + games = “Ender's Game.”

The protagonist of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin is a brilliant, compassionate child who's summoned to study war at Battle School and defeat the alien Buggers. Ender has always felt like an outsider because he's a Third - a third child - in a society that almost never tolerates families with more than two children.

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