Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are two books that I read last. While the first was sent by a friend who wanted me to read it for reasons that have not been revealed to me yet, the second came as a complimentary copy from the parents of a student. Coincidentally both are about a world that’s quite different from the one we are used to seeing in regular literature. Both the novels have children as characters. Both are about the game of war, so to say. Ender’s Game tells the story of a battle school where children as young as six are enlisted and trained to fight an ominous war with an ingenious and dreadful alien force. Ender (a corruption of Andrew) is one such six year-old boy who is seen by his trainers as the saviour of our planet. Ender wins games by circumventing rules. His determination to win at any cost and the brilliance of his intelligence are what will lead mankind to success in the war against the aliens.
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