How Does the Setting of Ender's Game Affect the Book and Its Plot?

Since procrastination has gotten the best of me again and I was just looking through the comments of people that have also procrastinated and I saw someone ask the question, "how does the setting affect the book?" I thought since I needed one more post and someone was looking for an answer to a question, I might as well do this post and well that's how we got here. So the setting of Ender's Game as I've elaborated on in a earlier post is put in a high tech futuristic world and an alien race has been discovered on a near planet. In the beginning you might think that the book is in the future but not super far in because they start of in North Carolina (which is were the author was born) in the US. But as the book goes deeper and deeper and deeper you realize how far into the future the book is actually put in. This affects the plot and the book because you can picture where on the timeline this falls and where this is happening. After the beginning all the best of the best are brought to Battle School, which is like going to Harvard vs going to a community college. Some aspects of the school are like out schools today and other aspects are different. One main difference you can tell straight up is that they are training to be military leaders not CEO's of fortune 500 companies or actors or any other profession that you want to be. Another difference there is, is that they spend lots of there time playing strategy games and simulations instead of learning in classrooms. Something that I noticed that is similar is the integration of technology into learning. I also noticed that it's also similar to a boarding school, in the aspect that they are away from their families and they do everything at the school and get to visit their families a couple of times. This affects the book and plot because it gives people something to relate to and also something that they can think about how different it is to how we do things. This being my last blogger post of Freshman year is so awesome and can't wait till summer.