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Ender's Game In Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, There are many different Forms of science. One most importantly is extraterrestrial life. Others include the differential effects that gravity can have on a person, future technology, and space travel. These four scientific themes are the basics of this book, and the information behind these Four themes can be used in today's world for future references. The story is from the near or far future when Space travelers will find extraterrestrial life, and the world will have to come together as one place to save the existence of the human race. This book is also a very interesting and educational science book. Ender's Game is a science fiction novel about a boy named Andrew Wiggin (nicknamed Ender by his sister, Valentine.) The story happens on Earth but mainly in space in the far future. The Earth has been attacked twice by an insect type alien Species called Buggers. These buggers almost destroyed the human race and conquered the galaxy but didn't succeed in complete victory. The united world as one place working together begins training child geniuses to become soldiers and commanders to fight and save Earth and the human race when the buggers attack. Ender is a very brilliant child and at the age of six, he is wanted for the battle school in space. He goes to Battle School for training, and proves his intelligence and strength which helps him rise to top and stay there, Then he is sent for training at Command School to command the Earth's fleet. The scientific theme of extraterrestrial life isn't a myth. It's very believable that there is other life in the universe than what's here on earth. Extraterrestrial means Originating, located, or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere: intelligent Extraterrestrial life, or an extraterrestrial being or life form. Ender's Game shows that there may be extraterrestrial life out there, but we cannot communicate with them, which may cause tension and may cause a Great War to break out. When people think of extraterrestrial, they don't think about insect looking creatures who are just as intelligent but only think what the head creature thinks as they think it. When people think about extraterrestrial, they think of aliens who look like nothing anybody has ever seen. They have hands with little suckers on them, or they have four arms. But in fact, extra terrestrial can mean Buggers, or other humans who don't know any language from here on Earth, and people could never communicate with them. Extraterrestrial life could be anything. Nobody knows, but Ender's Game gives people a good look on what the term Extraterrestrial life could really be. The extraterrestrial life in this story is the buggers. The buggers are "Organisms that could have conceivably evolved on Earth, if things had gone a different way a billion years ago. At the molecular level, there were no surprises. Even the genetic material was the same. It was no accident that they looked insect like to humanbeings. Though their internal organ were now much more complex and specialized than any insects, and they had evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of the exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants." " The buggers could probably see about the same spectrum of light as human beings, and there was artificial lighting in their ships and ground installations. There was no evidence that smelling, tasting, or hearing was important to them." Colonel Graff explains when He tells Ender what they knew about the Buggers (pg.248-249). The buggers are also used to a different gravitational pull because of where they are from. Gravity plays a big roll in the story almost as well as extraterrestrial life. However the story is based on the extraterrestrial life of the buggers, not gravity. When Ender takes his first flight to Battle School, he experiences null gravity. Or no gravity at all. Ender gets to the Battle school, where artificial gravity holds the students and staff to the floors. However the Battle School is on a rotation so it slowly spins which makes it more complicated to get used to. Ender is comfortable with the gravity at the battle school, and learns how to work in null gravity with his fellow peers. When Ender is transferred to an army two years earlier than usual, he learns how to plot missions, and attack his enemy in null gravity. When Ender graduates Battle School at ten, He goes back to Earth. The gravity feels strange, Ender feels that " everything was far away and flat; the ground, lacking the upward curve of Battle School floors, seemed to fall away, so that on level ground Ender felt as though he were on a pinnacle. The pull of real gravity felt different and he scuffed his feet when he walked.
Approximate Word count = 3250
Approximate Pages = 13
(250 words per page double spaced)
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