Ender Games Questions 1
1. The adults lie to Ender because if they don’t he’ll want to stay with his family. Valentine is like his best friend and they love eachother a lot. She is protective of him and so are his parents. They have to lie to get him to feel like its okay to come to battle school.
2. his parents- His parents were told by the government to have another child and then it became almost a sin to have 3. Ender is a sweet boy but he might be a little bit of burden on them because he is a ‘third’ Knowing that Ender gets picked on by kids for being one, then what kind kind of feedback do the parents of him get?
his brother, Peter- Peter probably deep inside, loves Ender. But he acts just like any really annoying big brother would. He didn’t pass the test for battle school and maybe he’s jealous of Ender and that’s where a lot of his hate towards him comes from. Being the first child, he might feel even more like he has power over him even after that fact that he’s a third.
his sister, Valentine -Valentine and Ender have a really strong bond. She isn’t bothered by the fact that he is a 3rd as far as I can see.
his classmates- His classmates made fun of him for it. They teased him, called him Thirdie, poked and taunted him about it.
3. Peter threatens Valentine and Ender, but he probably only does that because he wants to feel more powerful over them. Being the older brother, he feels like he has to have more dominance or people might see you as weak. When I get in an argument with people, I know that sometimes I say things that I really don’t mean because I’m just worked up. i bet Peter has the same problem.
4. Peter is mean to Ender at the beginning of the reading because he feels equal with him, if not above him since his monitor got taken out. But when Graff comes back to tell Ender that he has qualified to be in battle school, Peter feels like he might have been too harsh on his little brother before he knew his ability to be there.
5. Ender- I think Ender has a really spunky, vigorous, and dangerously adorable personality. Card made it seem this way by making this little 6 year old a somewhat endangering person to be around. Even though he is young and small, he will do what he has to do to defend himself.
Valentine- She seems almost too sweet. Most sibling don’t get along as well as Ender and Valentine do. But nonetheless, she is a really nice older sister to Ender and she has been very supportive of him.
Peter- Peter is the kind of brother I would never want. He seems like he would beat me up if he got the chance, get in trouble a lot and act like he was better than everyone else before he even knew them. I think Card made this evident by showing how angry he got with Ender.
6. Even though it isn’t true, Graff means that women are getting more weak every year. They were evolved as the gender to give birth. Women are becoming more scared and don’t want to go in a battle school away for years at a time to fight buggers in a place that would seem like a complete parallel universe to them. In a sense he’s saying that men are better than women when it comes to this kind of thing.
7. I think Card showed Ender taking Graff's hand to symbolize that he was now under his control, in his power and going with him. His parents watch this and that shows that they see that he is taking a different path and leaving the nest.
8. I think the statement “individual human beings are tools that the others use to help us all survive” basically means people work together to get things done better. When they are against the buggers, they will each contribute their skills. Some people may be better at actual warfare but they don’t have as much of a brain as someone else. But when you put them together, you have a better team that can accomplish more.
9. “isolate him enough that he remains creative -otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." This obviously applies to Ender. Ender is very very smart and he knows what he’s doing probably a lot more than the rest of the Launchies. Isolating him will separate him from the rest of the group so he can keep his creativity and won’t adopt their “ways.” Graff calls the other Launchies “pinheads” and “scum brained morons” so he doesn’t want Ender to lose his ability to them and adopt the attitude of the other boys.
10. Ender did not mean to break the boy’s arm. The boy kept punching him in the back of the head and he went to grab his arm to stop another blow but in zero gravity, it was a lot more force. I don’t think Ender actually realizes how powerful he is yet. He has to learn his own strengths. The other question asks is it okay to do crazy things in order to survive. Well in this case it was an accident and Ender wasn’t really in a life threatening situation. But if you’re feeling endangered by someone or something, and your life comes before theirs in your mind, then yeah I think that defending yourself in whatever way necessary is acceptable.
11. In Battle school, crying and whining are considered weaknesses. Ender doesn’t show his feelings because he doesn’t want to look like a sissy. Letting your emotions out is important because if you don’t then they just get all bottled up. He is just 6 years old, so crying is a normal thing. I think crying is just a natural part of being young. I don’t keeping it all to himself is a good thing even though crying in front of everyone else would make him seem immature and a baby.
12. Ender played against in Bernard in a video game and won 2/3. This is a weird way to show who is more “powerful” in some way, but Bernard really felt like her could beat little Ender, only to be proved wrong. Ender proved that even though Bernard was older and had been there for longer, he had more skill in that area. Bernard had told him he was a nobody until he got his first kill and Ender challenged him. I think this is a good way to settle their problems so no one gets hurt.
13. Ender shows many ways he deals with stress and pressure. He uses his counting method where he basically counts squares until he gets lost and forgets what he was worrying about. This is a good one because he can blow off steam without affecting anyone else. He also just sometimes ignores the thing that’s bugging him until he can’t take it anymore.He broke a kids arm the last time he tried to do that and ignoring everything will look like you don’t mind it and it could just keep going on. Ender waits until he’s in bed to cry and a good cry can really get a lot out and make you feel more calm. This is good because no one will see him crying and he can let everything off his chest through tears.
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