Peter In The End Of Valentine's

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All throughout chapter nine it deals with the relationships between the siblings. Also at this time Colonel Graff is stressing out over Ender seeing the image of Peter during the fantasy game. Peter comes to Valentine and asks for her help, he has figured out that Russia is preparing for land war. He realizes that something big is happening in space and that the people on earth are preparing for its aftermath. Valentine knows that Peter can distinguish other people’s fears and manipulate them and that she can persuade people to do what she wants them to do. This makes her realize that there is also so much of Peter in her, they both manipulate in their own ways, “she enjoyed knowing that she could, in her way, control other people” (127). …show more content…

Ironically we see them both taking action in opposite roles, Valentine as the radical Demosthenes and Peter as the moderate Locke. Graff wants Valentine to help Ender through his hard time, and convinces her to write him a letter. However, when Ender reads it, he sees through it instantly. He realizes that it is not from her and that its goal was clearly to show him he is not like Peter, “Even if she wrote it in her own blood, it isn’t the real thing because they made her write it” (150). Ender is furious that they took away from him his one precious real thing, his memory of Valentine and how they had now put her on the enemy’s side. He goes back to the mind game, but this time, the snake that he crushed under his feet so many times in the past, after he kisses it, turns into his sister and they walk to the mirror together. Peter does not appear this time and behind the mirror is a stairway that he and Valentine walk down. Ender is grateful to know that wherever he goes through in this world, Valentine will always be with him. This has now caused Ender to view Graff and the teachers as the enemy. However, Graff's manipulation worked perfectly, because Ender is once again ready for

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