Comparing Ender's Game And The Day Earth Stood Still

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Human Views on Aliens Humans have always been the most superior beings on Earth, but what do they do when an extraterrestrial race tries to defy their authority? There are many key similarities and differences in the two most popular works of science fiction.One thing to take note of is the human point of view towards aliens. By looking at the novel Ender’s Game and the movie The Day Earth Stood Still, by Orson Scott Card and Robert Wise respectively, the way humans perceive aliens is negative in most occasions, even if the aliens do not mean any harm. This is important because the humans do not understand that the aliens are not dangerous, even with all the different characteristics they possess and this may cause unwanted consequences and enemies. The foremost difference that consists of importance is the location of the novel and the film take place in. As Ender says, “There …show more content…
In Ender’s Game the bugger species is wiped out by Ender and his team of commanders. He said, “I didn’t want to kill them all.”(Card 297) Ender hadn’t known he had just eliminated a whole species, and therefore it was technically an accident, but what had been done couldn’t be changed. The buggers and the humans fought because there were no means of communication available. In the movie the humans try to assassinate Klaatu but Gort ends up rescuing him, even if only for the time being. Helen screams to Gort, “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!”(Wise). Klaatu already knows what the humans will most likely do and plans his task beforehand. He tells Helen to yell ‘Klaatu barada nikto’ so Gort can save him at a crucial moment and no time is wasted when he is about to give his speech. Klaatu dies while trying to give the message of peace to Earth, but most likely he dies in peace, knowing his assignment was completed. In both the novel and the film, humans kill the aliens because of misunderstandings and