book report

Noah Flegel

Book report

Period 5b honors English

9-18-13

why i chose to read

I chose to read the book, Ender’s Game, for a couple of different respectable reasons.  Whenever I am choosing from a list of books to read, the first step in my process is eliminating the books that look and sound boring.  I do this by reading the summaries on the back cover, and analyze the cover.  The hardest part is making the decision out of the top three you have narrowed it down to.  The main reason I picked “Ender’s Game” out of all the other books was because I love sci-fi. There was also talk of the book becoming a movie, and I love to watch movies after I read the book.  “Ender’s Game” ended up being brilliant choice. 

summary  

Ender Wiggin is the third child out of a family of five who happens to be some sort of genius.  Ender and his two older siblings, Valentine and Peter, all wore monitors that allowed the army to watch there every move.  The army saw lots of potential in Ender.  In result he had his monitor on for a much longer time then his siblings.  This made his brother Peter furious.  Ender try’s to be nice to everyone and make peace, yet even the kids at school bully him.  Ender beats up the main bully to show him a lesson and so the others will let him be. 

After the army observes this, and a commanding officer comes by the house and recruits him to come join their fight against the aliens who are trying to kill everyone.  As usual the other kids on his launch are jealous of him and Ender accidently beats one kid up.  Once Ender begins to portray his skills and talents the other kids begin to respect him. He makes a few friends but gets separated from them once he has to join the next level. 

Ender soon finds out that the army has been using him for his smarts the whole time.  The so-called practice games he had been playing, had actually been real life. He had killed thousands of buggers and some people as well.  Peter ends up taking control of the world and Valentine needs Ender.  Ender finds out that the buggers didn’t mean any harm after he goes to their last planet and helps find them a safe place to live.

Favorite part

My favorite part of the book was definitely towards the beginning when Ender stood up for himself in a huge way and beat up the bully that had been giving him tons of trouble.  The author portrait Ender as a scrawny little nerd and then out of nowhere he beats up some jock.  I was shocked and entertained as I read this part.  I always love when the under dog does something great.  This part made me happy.

Worst part

Once Ender got to his base, things started to get confusing.  I often found myself reading and not knowing what I just read.  It was boring for a while and it was very hard to follow since it was such a different idea for a book. 

Recommend or not?

It depends on who I was going to recommend it too.  If it was someone who likes a twist or something different and creative I would definitely recommend it to that person. If it was someone who likes a more normal, down to earth story, I would not recommend it to that person.  I would rate this book at a 6 since there were some weird and hard to follow parts.  It was very different and interesting though and I enjoyed it for the most part.