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Ender’s Game Adoption
Background
Both the author of the book and the director of the film give the audience the same piece, however each has a different twist that enhances the experiences. Enders Game, is a book that was authored by Orson Scott Card as a military action science fiction. Card who is an American has been known for his contribution in science fiction genre, with several awards to his name and work. He later on published a sequel to the Ender’s Game, titled Speaker for the Dead. Published in the year 1985, the novel presents a situation where the earth is under eminent peril from invasion by aliens, referred to as buggers. There is an anticipated attack from the aliens and the government has to make sure that they ready to defeat them. To these efforts the government rounds up youngsters that have been found to have exceptional capabilities to be trained to fight of the invaders (Granger, Sam). The youngsters have to be taken through some rigorous training to make sure they are capable and have optimized their skills. among the youngsters is Ender Wiggin, whose abilities have been monitored for some time and has proven to be very capable. In light of the success that the book has enjoyed, it has also been adopted into a film. The film is titled Enders’ Game and was released in the year 2013. Like the book, the film is a science fiction, directed by Gavin Hood. While the film adopts most of the content and context of the book such as the plot, characters and the personalities, there are some significant differences between the book and what is seen on the film. This thus creates a rather different appeal for the persons that read the book and those that watch the film. T
Thesis statement: he film is highly compressed modifying some of the scenes and doing away with some others, making it quite different from the book.
Book Adoption
Both the book and the film are similar in some of the elements such as the fact that, at the start of the two there is a preparation that is going on to protect the earth from the invasion by the aliens. The government takes the initiative to get all the best candidates in this case youngsters that have shown some element of potential in their abilities in combat and general intelligence when faced with situations (Granger, Sam). The main youngster in the book and film is Ender Wiggin. It is crucial to note that much of the context does not change, such as the plot of the story, the characters that are included in both the film and the book, their personalities and roles that they play to the end. In the film much like in the book, the director is able to capture the settings where the activities take place. The school where the children are taken to train is dull and brings out the element of being unfriendly. This is an attribute that is associated with the out space, where there not human life. On earth, however, there abundance of green and blue which signify life and beauty to eyes of the views and the in the mind of the readers.
An evaluation of the film with reference to the book, however reveals that there is a di...