The book is fairly complex in its attitudes.
IIRC there wasn’t much if any overt religion in the book.
No gender issues either.
There is considerable “moral equivalence”, of the “war is bad, and I’m very sorry about the enemies I was made to kill for no good reason” sort.
“IIRC there wasn’t much if any overt religion in the book.
No gender issues either.”
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Well that’s my point. The intent and focus of Card’s creation, certainly won’t stop Hollywood from inserting its usual messages, unless the author specifically reins them in.
Cameron distorted much of the real history of HMS Titanic, and that was an ACTUAL documented, historic event.
I think he faced that in Speaker For The Dead. Not at all in the first book. I think it may start in First Meetings.
“There is considerable ‘moral equivalence’, of the ‘war is bad, and I’m very sorry about the enemies I was made to kill for no good reason’ sort.”
I don’t know about that, exactly. Equivalency, yes. We get force fed the wornout canard that war is caused by failures to communicate. Though the bugs started it, we are taught to hate the humans in charge and damn them for tricking the hero.
The “kill for no good reason” part is a little off, though. Like I said, they did start it. But more to the point, not only does Ender kill them; he commits genocide (or so they think). That’s a genuine moral problem, even for good wars.