Ender's Game is a good book to read if you're not looking for a complex plot and into sci-fi. In my opinion, there isn't much of a dystopian theme in this book. According to Wikipedia, a dystopian society means "a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution."
In Ender's Game, people aren't unhappy. There are birth control laws, and some children are taken to become soldiers, but apart from that, no dystopia. In my opinion, Ender's Game is more towards psychology. It shows the mental aspects of a hero, and the strains it puts on the brain. In fact, some schools use this as a textbook of psychology on leadership, while others use this book for the sci-fi parts...
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Posted by Kangaroo at 12:29 PM
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I like your thinking but I may have to disagree with you on how Ender's Game may be a less dystopian novel. First of all, this book is gloomy and depressing the whole route. The book shows the misery of Ender throughout. Didn't the definition of dystopia you found say "misery"? There is definitly misery in this book. Time to time, this book does talk about humanity, and when it does, it talks in a negative way. It talks as if humans only want to survive, to live, and to do that we kill all the time. Isn't that dystopia. Maybe I don't know what dystopia really means, but I'm sure that Ender's Game is very negative about humanity.
On the other hand, good post! It may be a little short if you were in Mrs. Lavender's class..
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