Chapter 12:
1. Bonzo was provoked by Ender because he beat Salamander Army. Bonzo was jealous of him because he was so good at everything and even though he was younger, he knew a lot more. Ender was also making fun of his Spanish honor. This resulted in the fight in the shower. Ender was cleaning up after a long day of battles when he reached for his towel but it wasn't there. He realized that a bunch of older boys had taken it, and Bonzo was their leader.
2. Stilson was Ender's bully and tormented at school before he came to Battle School. Ender was thinking of him because he had a big fight with Stilson where he ended up hurting very badly, just as he did with Bonzo. Little does Ender know that he killed both of them.
3. Ender still expects help from the teachers because he thinks he is too good for them to risk losing. He knows they believe he is their only hope, so he thinks they won't let anyone hurt him. When he wakes scared in the night he comforts himself with this idea.
4. When the teachers are talking on page 226, one of them says they did have the good sense to tell Ender that the boy died." And then they say: "they didn't tell him about Stilson either" Ender knew he beat him up but know it was obvious to the reader that he actually did.
5. Ender was justified by the teachers. They say; " Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins-thoroughly." I think they didn't tell Ender about the deaths because he was doing so well in battle school and telling him the people he beat up actually got killed would scare him.
Chapter 13:
1. This quote is saying that maybe you can't act like someone you're not without really taking on the role in real life. This relates to how Valentine and Peter pretend to be Demonesthes and Locke.
2. Is it a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers? (survival of the fittest)
Well for me it isn't a good thing for humans to be killers but it's the way that we can do it and why we do it matters the most. Like when Peter would kill squirrels just to kill squirrels and peel back their skin and watch them die, that's wrong.
3. Ender and Valentine talked about the bugger war and what would happen in it. They talk about Ender growing up. Valentine talks about Demosthenes and Locke. Ender reveals that he is kind of scared to go on because his strength is so powerful and he doesn't want to hurt his enemies anymore.
4. Valentine's feelings for Ender and Peter have changed a lot over the years. She has always loved Ender but since he has been away so long, they have grown apart. They used to have such a tight bond but Battle School hasn't let it continue.
5. To me, the reasons Graff gives for the bugger wars seem like the reasons for many problems. It boils down to religion, wanting space, not thinking the other side knows what they are doing, and thinking the other side is too forceful or violent.
Chapter 14:
1. Ender is wary about Eros and he says it's because; "I thought the Buggers burned that into a radioactive-ah." He doesn't finish his sentence in my perspective because he is just frightened. Eros is where the buggers will be, where anything could go down, where Buggers had colonized before. He is uneasy because it feels sketchy to be there in the presence of past buggers.
2. Mazer is going to be the real teacher Ender ever has is because Mazer is the only person smarter than Ender. Additionally Mazer is the only person who actually will teach Ender something that he hasn't figured out himself.
3. Mazer was dishonest with Ender because if Ender knew he was sending real living men to their death, and causing the genocide of a whole race he wouldn't have been able to handle it.
4. I think they had pushed the children too far. Not only had Ender and Alai, Beans, and Petra felt the pressure, but so had everyone else. In the final assessment, I think everyone was stressed because they were attacking the home planet and it would have been horrible if they hadn't won.
5. I don't think that killing of the entire race of buggers was justified even if they were the enemy. Survival of the fittest was taken a little too far. Killing the buggers that were looking like they were going to be a threatening would have been a better method for the war.
Chapter 15
1. After what has happened in Ender’s life what he would think of this statement is that he would be angry that he didn't realize this earlier in his life. Also He would be confused because he did things for people that he didn’t love.
2. Ender's opinion about the deaths is that he was not the the one who provoked Stilson and Bonzo but it was only an act of self defense. It was not.
3. Valentine doesn't want Ender to see Peter. He has kind of taken over with his powerful ways and she doesn't want Ender getting sucked into his world. She doesn't want him to become Peter or even the slightest but like Peter. She loves Ender and wants to protect him from what Peter might do if he goes back to Earth.
4. Many things are ironic about Valentine's statement that Peter saved millions of lives. First of all, there is the fact that he used to live for hurting others, such as when he would mutilate the squirrels. His early childhood was devoted to hurting lives, not helping them.
5. The knowledge Ender gained to write the Hive Queen Came from the Bugger egg. It shared its memories and ideas with him when he came in physical contact with it. "We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came again. We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe.
6. Ender called himself Speaker for the Dead because he wants to be out of the limelight and he thinks people will read it differently if they knew it was by him, who had killed all of the buggers. He has had enough of the spotlight and wants people to know the truth without him having to be involved. Also, it is like how we did not know about Orson Scott Card's views against gay marriage when we read Ender's Games
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