Ender's Game questions 9-11

Ender Games Questions

Chapter 9:

    1.  In the unspoken battle between Valentine and Peter, Peter is the manipulator and Valentine has the real power. Peter convinces her that they need to try to get involved with the war by sort of using her. He cries too, and this just makes her feel sorry that she wasn’t going to do it at first. He makes her feel bad to get in his “side” in a way. Valentine has more power in my opinion because she has the better heart and I think she’s smarter than Peter.  

    2. Locke is Peter and Demosthenes is Valentine.  In the writings that they make, these are their fake identities but they relate to them in real life too. Locke was known for his “modern conceptions of identity and the self” and he believed knowledge can only be retained through experience.  Peter is playing the role of someone who is moderate in his writing and gets his point across without it sounding like he’s being too dramatic and trying too hard. Demosthenes was a Grecian radical man who was an orator. Valentine becomes very dramatic with her writing and everything she says in the articles she writes, she gets a strong hard point across and is very firm and fluid with her words.
   

3. Ender is still angry because he thinks the Battle school controls everything way too much which is completely true. He was tired of being given strict rules and having people run his life.  He doesn’t want to do all the things they tell him to do. He hates the games and the fact that the one person that he thought he could really trust is now “one of them.”

Chapter 10:

    1. Ender was a good leader, managing to get his point across while still cracking a few jokes, He has more sympathy for the younger kids, like Bean, because he was just like him when he entered battle school I think Ender should learn how to be a little more attentive to ALL the students.

2.  Ender was kind of using Bean as an example for the Dragon army to watch and learn from. He is very smart for being underage and when he asks for a toon in Ender’s army, Ender pushes him against the wall and tells him that he needs to show him that he can earn the people that would be in his toons respect.

3. Salaam is a greeting in Arabic tradition meaning “peace be with you.” religious identity is very important because it is part of who you are, what you believe in, how you treat others, the way you say things, do things, and has affect on how you go about doing everything.

4. The end of the chapter, Ender is realizing that Valentine is becoming a “stranger.” The letter that she wrote to him was edited and it wasn’t really like her writing it. He felt sad and frustrated with the teachers. I think the teachers kind of made him feel this way on purpose because they wanted him to realize that even his shining memory of his sister is now fading and he has to come to more of the reality of the Battle School. Ender decides that with the anger that this is giving him, he wants to turn it against the teachers.  

Chapter 11.
         
        1. I think the computer “knows” Ender through the information that the monitor stored when it was in his head. But there are still some things that it doesn’t know about him. I think the computer is kind of meant to make him think that the computer really does understand everything that’s going on just to confuse him.  

      2. That quote is when Ender is talking to Bean. I think it means that Ender feels like he has to win all the games that he plays now since he’s built such a big reputation to win. He wants to prove that even though he got the army of misfits/outcasts/launchies from other armies, that with the right training, anyone can go far.
   
    3.  I think the teachers are pushing Ender so hard because they are trying to see how he does under so much pressure. Fighting several battles in a day with his army is difficult and tiresome. I don’t think the teachers will end up getting the best of him though. He is really strong willed and has a very high tolerance level. He knows how to control his army really well and if he uses his skills to ignore the pressure given by the teachers, then he will be fine.
   
    4.  The last few sentences are about Bean thinking of strategies in battle. Ender told him to come up with stupid things to do that the other armies won’t expect because he has run out of ideas himself. He reminds Bean that he is the quickest thinker and believes in him. He gives him 5 students to teach in a extra practice time so that Bean can teach them the new “stupid strategies”

5.  I think Veni vidi vici was a good title for this chapter because it means “I came, I saw, I conquered” Ender CAME to battle school as a young boy to learn how to fight and be in battle. He SAW how it was done, and retained all of the things he was taught. And when it came time for his own army to fight, they CONQUERED and won all of their battles.