Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. Ender provoked Bonzo by insulting his honor. He said how Bonzo's father would be proud of him for trying to kill somebody smaller than him, and things like that. Bonzo responded by trying to kill him at the showers.
2. Stilson was the bully who tried to hurt Ender when he still was on Earth at the beginning of the book, but then Ender ended up killing him. Ender was thinking of him because when Bonzo was there with him at the showers, he was reminded of all his enemies and people who had tried to hurt him.
3. Ender still expects help from the teachers because he thinks that they care for him and want to make sure that no one gets hurt at the battle school because of liabilities, and he's only a kid so he doesn't realize that he has to care for himself.
4. I knew that Stilson and Bonzo were killed because of the clues in the chapter where the teachers were talking about how there was a death at the battle school, and it was the second one in history, and things like that. The teachers said "they didn't tell him about Stilson, either," so that's another clue.
5. Ender was justified because he was a kid, he didn't mean to kill them, and it was self defense. The teachers didn't tell him about the deaths because Ender didn't want to kill them, so if he knew he had, then he wouldn't do as good at the battle school and think that he was just like Peter, but worse.
Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” This quote means that you can't pretend to be somebody else and not naturally act like that. An example of this idea is when Valentine started acting like Demosthenes even though that's not who she was, because when she was asked a question, she would say something that Demosthenes would say without even thinking about it.
2. It kind of is a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers (survival of the fittest) because we want to keep thriving, and need this instinct to do that if another species is trying to kill us and fight us.
3. When Ender and Valentine were on the raft, they talked about the battle school and Peter. Ender reveals about himself and his enemies that he felt like a puppet and was being used by the teachers, and that he always won his battles because he knew what the enemies were thinking, but then he would like them, but still kill them.
4. Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers were how Peter had mellowed, but the battle school had made Ender into a killer. There roles have shifted because Ender doesn't want to kill anybody, but he does end up killing people, and Peter stopped being as aggressive. Valentine felt like they were two sides of the same coin, but she didn't always know which side was which.
5. Graff told Ender that the bugger war was inevitable, because it was true because they had ships flying to the bugger planets already that would land soon, so they would have to have a war.
Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros is how it used to be a bugger planet, and he was living inside bugger tunnels. Ender figures out the truth about Eros by talking to Mazer Rackham, and asking him what evidence there was in Eros that buggers were smart creatures.
2. Mazer was going to be the only teacher Ender ever had because his other teachers never taught him anything. Mazer said to Ender "You have learned nothing. You have never had a teacher."
3. Mazer had been dishonest with Ender because he didn't want him to know he was going to kill all of the buggers, because he wouldn't have killed them if he'd known. I don't think Ender could've handled the truth.
4. I think that they pushed the children too far because Petra and some other people started to break and not do as well, but it was worth it because they beat the buggers.
5. Genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide is justified because the queen of the buggers "thought" to Ender that she forgave the human race for killing them, if Ender would help her hatch her eggs. The xenocide of the Buggers was inevitable because the human race didn't know that the buggers didn't want to hurt them.
Chapter 15 – Speaker for the Dead
1. Valentine said, “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given to you by good people, by people who love you.” After what has happened in Ender’s life, he would think about this that it was part way true, but it's very hard to fill the roles by good people, and not bad too.
2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. His opinion about the deaths are not good because he feels like he is Peter and he didn't want to kill them, just hurt them enough so that they wouldn't hurt him anymore.
3. Valentine made sure that Ender could never return to Earth because she didn't want him to be in the hands of Peter, who pretty much had control of Earth.
4. What's ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of lives is that he is a killer at heart, so saving people seems like the opposite of his personality.
5. The knowledge that Ender gained to enable him to write The Hive-Queen was from the queen herself, when she told Ender how the buggers didn't know that humans were intelligent life forms, so they tried to kill us, but then realized what we were and left us alone, but it was too late. So now they forgive us for killing them.
6. Ender publishes the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name because he doesn't want people to know that he wrote it because they wouldn't like him and think he cared about the buggers.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 9-11
Chapter 9 – Locke and Demosthenes
1. There is a real battle, internally and unspoken, between Peter and Valentine. I think that Valentine is manipulating Peter, and has power over him because she doesn't show that she does, so he doesn't realize that she has power over him.
2. Ender is still angry because he doesn't have any fun at the battle school. It's just work, training for the games. The same thing over and over.
Chapter 10 – Dragon
1. Ender was the kind of leader that has much authority and power over everyone else. He was strict and treated Bean like Graff had treated him. He was this kind of leader because less instruction wouldn't work with an army, like it did with his practice group, or else they wouldn't follow him.
2. What Ender did to Bean was treated him like he was the only one who would make a good soldier, out of all his other soldiers. He did it because it was what Graff had done to him, in his launch group.
The teachers wanted him to do that.
3. Salaam means peace. This tells you how there were many different races at the battle school and that the power of religious identity was strong because the only thing keeping the world in peace was the problem of the buggers.
4. What's important about the end of this chapter is that Ender has started to grow tough and stop crying, and not trust anybody. Ender’s reaction wasn't a mistake by the teachers, because they wanted him to think that he couldn't trust anybody at the battleschool.
Chapter 11 – Veni Vidi Vici
1. The computer knows Ender well because it analyzes what he does in the game, and looks at his files from when he had the monitor. It really does.
2. “Yes. That’s the worst that could happen. I can’t lose any games. Because if I lose any--” (page 198). This quote means that if Ender loses any games, then the teachers will know that Ender isn't good enough to be a commander, and will lose hope in him.
3. The teachers are pushing Ender so hard because they want to break him so that he will make a good commander and be good in the battle against the buggers.
4. The importance of the last two sentences of the chapter is that it shows how Bean's ideas are stupid, but they are actually very clever if you know how to use them.
5. “Veni vidi vici” means, “I came; I saw; I conquered.” This is an appropriate chapter title because Dragon army came to the battle against rabbit army, saw what to do, and then conquered them.
1. There is a real battle, internally and unspoken, between Peter and Valentine. I think that Valentine is manipulating Peter, and has power over him because she doesn't show that she does, so he doesn't realize that she has power over him.
2. Ender is still angry because he doesn't have any fun at the battle school. It's just work, training for the games. The same thing over and over.
Chapter 10 – Dragon
1. Ender was the kind of leader that has much authority and power over everyone else. He was strict and treated Bean like Graff had treated him. He was this kind of leader because less instruction wouldn't work with an army, like it did with his practice group, or else they wouldn't follow him.
2. What Ender did to Bean was treated him like he was the only one who would make a good soldier, out of all his other soldiers. He did it because it was what Graff had done to him, in his launch group.
The teachers wanted him to do that.
3. Salaam means peace. This tells you how there were many different races at the battle school and that the power of religious identity was strong because the only thing keeping the world in peace was the problem of the buggers.
4. What's important about the end of this chapter is that Ender has started to grow tough and stop crying, and not trust anybody. Ender’s reaction wasn't a mistake by the teachers, because they wanted him to think that he couldn't trust anybody at the battleschool.
Chapter 11 – Veni Vidi Vici
1. The computer knows Ender well because it analyzes what he does in the game, and looks at his files from when he had the monitor. It really does.
2. “Yes. That’s the worst that could happen. I can’t lose any games. Because if I lose any--” (page 198). This quote means that if Ender loses any games, then the teachers will know that Ender isn't good enough to be a commander, and will lose hope in him.
3. The teachers are pushing Ender so hard because they want to break him so that he will make a good commander and be good in the battle against the buggers.
4. The importance of the last two sentences of the chapter is that it shows how Bean's ideas are stupid, but they are actually very clever if you know how to use them.
5. “Veni vidi vici” means, “I came; I saw; I conquered.” This is an appropriate chapter title because Dragon army came to the battle against rabbit army, saw what to do, and then conquered them.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 6-8
Chapter 6 – The Giant’s Drink
1. The purpose of the Giant's Game is that the game wants to see what Ender would do in a situation like that. He evaluated his success by thinking he was like Peter and was a murderer, but he should've thought that he just was trying to survive in his fantasy game. He is not a murderer because he killed the giant in self defense, and it was just a game!
Chapter 7 – Salamander
1. Alai said to Ender "Salaam." It is important because it shows that races didn't matter then. Also, it shows that there was world peace because of the buggers.
2. The "just living" mentioned in this chapter means that your living, without anything to do. No objectives in life, and you're at peace with yourself. It's true that Ender has never done this because he always has to train hard in the battleroom, and before that defend himself from Peter. What Ender wants out of his life is to be happy. If I was him I would want to just live and be happy, and also wouldn't want to be at the battle school.
3. Petra helped Ender by practicing in the battleroom with him during free time and training him. Their friendship is a hindrance to Ender because she was a girl and it split Salamander Army apart, and also Petra is an outcast, so if Ender is working with her, then he is more likely to be an outcast too.
4. What Ender learned about leadership and tactics from Bonzo is that if you're strict, people follow you easier, and they fear you. Also, he learned how the well-rehearsed formations they had were a mistake because it made them predictable, and they wouldn't know what to do when the enemy attacked the formations.
Chapter 8 – Rat
1. Graff's quote, “Ender Wiggin is ten times smarter and stronger than I am.”means that Ender knew how to use his cleverness and could easily outsmart people. Graff was saying he wasn't smart in battle, but he was pretty smart in bringing out Ender Wiggin's clever side. Also, Ender was stronger than he knew, and Graff wanted to see that.
2. What is significant about the quote “So teach me.” “So learn,” is that you can't learn battle skills from other people, you have to figure it out yourself so you can think up better formations and things to do in battle, and also you won't be trusting somebody to be there for you, and then they're not.
3. Ender’s response to an attack is significant because he would make a good commander because of how he tells the boys in his class what to do to get away safely, and he is really good without gravity because of how he can reorient himself. Also, this is just a test by teachers to see if he should be a commander and I think he passed.
4. The scene with the snake and Peter's reflection represented that Ender thought he was like Peter, but didn't want to be like him.
5. The game knows because it follows Ender's actions around the Battle School, has access to when Ender had his monitor, when Peter tortured him, and so figured out that Ender didn't want to be like Peter.
6. The importance of the last paragraph of this chapter is that it showed how Ender didn't want to do this, and he hated how every time he hurt somebody, he felt like Peter. Also, he felt like he was just a tool, and wasn't important to anybody, just a tool they would use to fix something, like a hammer.
1. The purpose of the Giant's Game is that the game wants to see what Ender would do in a situation like that. He evaluated his success by thinking he was like Peter and was a murderer, but he should've thought that he just was trying to survive in his fantasy game. He is not a murderer because he killed the giant in self defense, and it was just a game!
Chapter 7 – Salamander
1. Alai said to Ender "Salaam." It is important because it shows that races didn't matter then. Also, it shows that there was world peace because of the buggers.
2. The "just living" mentioned in this chapter means that your living, without anything to do. No objectives in life, and you're at peace with yourself. It's true that Ender has never done this because he always has to train hard in the battleroom, and before that defend himself from Peter. What Ender wants out of his life is to be happy. If I was him I would want to just live and be happy, and also wouldn't want to be at the battle school.
3. Petra helped Ender by practicing in the battleroom with him during free time and training him. Their friendship is a hindrance to Ender because she was a girl and it split Salamander Army apart, and also Petra is an outcast, so if Ender is working with her, then he is more likely to be an outcast too.
4. What Ender learned about leadership and tactics from Bonzo is that if you're strict, people follow you easier, and they fear you. Also, he learned how the well-rehearsed formations they had were a mistake because it made them predictable, and they wouldn't know what to do when the enemy attacked the formations.
Chapter 8 – Rat
1. Graff's quote, “Ender Wiggin is ten times smarter and stronger than I am.”means that Ender knew how to use his cleverness and could easily outsmart people. Graff was saying he wasn't smart in battle, but he was pretty smart in bringing out Ender Wiggin's clever side. Also, Ender was stronger than he knew, and Graff wanted to see that.
2. What is significant about the quote “So teach me.” “So learn,” is that you can't learn battle skills from other people, you have to figure it out yourself so you can think up better formations and things to do in battle, and also you won't be trusting somebody to be there for you, and then they're not.
3. Ender’s response to an attack is significant because he would make a good commander because of how he tells the boys in his class what to do to get away safely, and he is really good without gravity because of how he can reorient himself. Also, this is just a test by teachers to see if he should be a commander and I think he passed.
4. The scene with the snake and Peter's reflection represented that Ender thought he was like Peter, but didn't want to be like him.
5. The game knows because it follows Ender's actions around the Battle School, has access to when Ender had his monitor, when Peter tortured him, and so figured out that Ender didn't want to be like Peter.
6. The importance of the last paragraph of this chapter is that it showed how Ender didn't want to do this, and he hated how every time he hurt somebody, he felt like Peter. Also, he felt like he was just a tool, and wasn't important to anybody, just a tool they would use to fix something, like a hammer.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 1-5
Chapter 1 – Third
1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?
When adults always say it won't hurt when it is going to hurt, you know it will hurt so you will be prepared.
2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is a negative or positive fact to:
- his parents: For his parents it is negative and positive because they love him and are proud to have have, but they are also embarrassed by him.
- his brother, Peter: It is very negative because Peter knows that Ender is living proof that he wasn't good enough.
- his sister, Valentine: For Valentine it is positive because she loves him very much and doesn't care that he's a third.
- his classmates: For his classmates it's negative and positive because they seem to pick on him because they're jealous, but they also have someone to taunt.
Chapter 2 – Peter
1. Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine? Support your answer with evidence from the novel.
He was kidding because he said "Not a joke, a game. I can make you guys believe anything." And later when he thinks Ender's asleep, he says "Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels, I'm sorry, I'm your brother, I love you."
2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the rest of the chapter?
Because he realizes that since Ender's monitor was taken out, the battle school didn't want him. That meant that Ender wasn't better than Peter, so Peter didn't need to be mean to Ender.
3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)? What did the author do to help create these feelings? Give examples.
I think Ender is a boy still trying to figure out who he is. He seems nice, but sometimes he's like Peter, and can hurt somebody. An example is when he fought Stilson. Other times he keeps to himself, and is kind of scared, like when he was on the launch.
Valentine is a really nice person, and very caring. An example is when she protects Ender from Peter and talks Peter out of his "killing them" idea. Another is when Graff is saying how Peter wasn't mild enough, Ender was just right, and Valentine was too mild.
Peter seems really tough, and mean. He also seems jealous of Ender because he thinks he isn't good enough. Some examples are when he says "They might have realized I was the best of the lot after all." Then the author said, Peter's feelings were hurt, and so he was being a snot, as usual. Another one is when the author said, Peter is a murderer at heart.
Chapter 3 – Graff
1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?
He meant that girls didn't want to go, because they weren't as willing to fight in battle, and they were milder and nicer so it would be harder for them to fight.
2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?
Because he was scared and wanted reassurance because he just made a big decision, and he was only six.
Chapter 4 – Launch
1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools that the others use to help us all survive.”
This statement means that humans fight better when they are alone and can't depend on anybody, because then they won't depend on someone else to rescue them if they are in tight situation and things like that.
2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should
include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose.
This quote means that with isolation, people will think of creative ways to help themselves in a battle and adopt techniques that only work with one person, and if they fight with somebody else, they will lose that creativeness.
3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm? What does this incident tell us about Ender? Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival? Why or why not? No, he didn't mean to break the other boy's arm, he just wanted him to stop poking him, but in zero gravity, he was stronger that he thought. It tells us that Ender is a very powerful person and sometimes, it is acceptable to do despicable things for survival if somebody is trying to hurt you because it's considered self defense.
Chapter 5 – Games
1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not? What is positive and what is negative about showing feelings? What is positive and what is negative about not showing feelings?
It's not healthy for him because if you let your feelings show, sometimes it will help you get over them. It's positive for the same reason, but it's negative because people might tease him about it. What's positive for not showing feelings is that you won't get teased and you can just push them away sometimes, and what's negative is that it will be harder and harder to not show them.
2. How did Ender beat Bernard? Is this an unusual solution to his problem?
He beat Bernard by sending messages to everyone on their desks. The first one said "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. -God," because Bernard had been saying how Shen's butt wiggled, and the second one said "I love your butt. Let me kiss it. -Bernard," so it made Bernard humiliated. It's an unusual solution because it's very clever and nobody else would've thought of it.
3. List the different coping mechanisms (ways of dealing with difficulties) Ender
shows. For each one describe whether the overall result of each is helpful or
harmful to Ender.
First, he started counting doubles when he was sad so he wouldn't start crying, and that was helpful because he didn't start crying. Then, that night, he cried silently so that nobody would know. That helped him because if he showed his sadness, then other kids might tease him. Next, when he wanted to play a game in the game room and the boys wouldn't let him, he said he guessed that they were scared they wouldn't beat him, so he did play, and beat them two out of three, so it was helpful for his satisfaction. Lastly, Ender sent messages to everyone on his desk so that Bernard wouldn't be the ruler of the class any longer, and it was helpful because it worked.
1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?
When adults always say it won't hurt when it is going to hurt, you know it will hurt so you will be prepared.
2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is a negative or positive fact to:
- his parents: For his parents it is negative and positive because they love him and are proud to have have, but they are also embarrassed by him.
- his brother, Peter: It is very negative because Peter knows that Ender is living proof that he wasn't good enough.
- his sister, Valentine: For Valentine it is positive because she loves him very much and doesn't care that he's a third.
- his classmates: For his classmates it's negative and positive because they seem to pick on him because they're jealous, but they also have someone to taunt.
Chapter 2 – Peter
1. Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine? Support your answer with evidence from the novel.
He was kidding because he said "Not a joke, a game. I can make you guys believe anything." And later when he thinks Ender's asleep, he says "Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels, I'm sorry, I'm your brother, I love you."
2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the rest of the chapter?
Because he realizes that since Ender's monitor was taken out, the battle school didn't want him. That meant that Ender wasn't better than Peter, so Peter didn't need to be mean to Ender.
3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)? What did the author do to help create these feelings? Give examples.
I think Ender is a boy still trying to figure out who he is. He seems nice, but sometimes he's like Peter, and can hurt somebody. An example is when he fought Stilson. Other times he keeps to himself, and is kind of scared, like when he was on the launch.
Valentine is a really nice person, and very caring. An example is when she protects Ender from Peter and talks Peter out of his "killing them" idea. Another is when Graff is saying how Peter wasn't mild enough, Ender was just right, and Valentine was too mild.
Peter seems really tough, and mean. He also seems jealous of Ender because he thinks he isn't good enough. Some examples are when he says "They might have realized I was the best of the lot after all." Then the author said, Peter's feelings were hurt, and so he was being a snot, as usual. Another one is when the author said, Peter is a murderer at heart.
Chapter 3 – Graff
1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?
He meant that girls didn't want to go, because they weren't as willing to fight in battle, and they were milder and nicer so it would be harder for them to fight.
2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?
Because he was scared and wanted reassurance because he just made a big decision, and he was only six.
Chapter 4 – Launch
1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools that the others use to help us all survive.”
This statement means that humans fight better when they are alone and can't depend on anybody, because then they won't depend on someone else to rescue them if they are in tight situation and things like that.
2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should
include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose.
This quote means that with isolation, people will think of creative ways to help themselves in a battle and adopt techniques that only work with one person, and if they fight with somebody else, they will lose that creativeness.
3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm? What does this incident tell us about Ender? Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival? Why or why not? No, he didn't mean to break the other boy's arm, he just wanted him to stop poking him, but in zero gravity, he was stronger that he thought. It tells us that Ender is a very powerful person and sometimes, it is acceptable to do despicable things for survival if somebody is trying to hurt you because it's considered self defense.
Chapter 5 – Games
1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not? What is positive and what is negative about showing feelings? What is positive and what is negative about not showing feelings?
It's not healthy for him because if you let your feelings show, sometimes it will help you get over them. It's positive for the same reason, but it's negative because people might tease him about it. What's positive for not showing feelings is that you won't get teased and you can just push them away sometimes, and what's negative is that it will be harder and harder to not show them.
2. How did Ender beat Bernard? Is this an unusual solution to his problem?
He beat Bernard by sending messages to everyone on their desks. The first one said "Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. -God," because Bernard had been saying how Shen's butt wiggled, and the second one said "I love your butt. Let me kiss it. -Bernard," so it made Bernard humiliated. It's an unusual solution because it's very clever and nobody else would've thought of it.
3. List the different coping mechanisms (ways of dealing with difficulties) Ender
shows. For each one describe whether the overall result of each is helpful or
harmful to Ender.
First, he started counting doubles when he was sad so he wouldn't start crying, and that was helpful because he didn't start crying. Then, that night, he cried silently so that nobody would know. That helped him because if he showed his sadness, then other kids might tease him. Next, when he wanted to play a game in the game room and the boys wouldn't let him, he said he guessed that they were scared they wouldn't beat him, so he did play, and beat them two out of three, so it was helpful for his satisfaction. Lastly, Ender sent messages to everyone on his desk so that Bernard wouldn't be the ruler of the class any longer, and it was helpful because it worked.
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