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
Probably, I should understand more their home-culture and how that influences Peter’s life at school. Also, I should interpret (without my own point of view) the family’s action with affect Peter’s
The Enders Game written by Orson Scott Card provides understanding of the characters and their relationships with others through indirect characterization and diction. Orson Scott Card uses literacy devices and specific word choice to let the reader draw conclusions about the characters and the relationships between Peter and Ender, the symbolism of the bugger mask/bugger-astronaut game, and the foreshadowing of Peter and Valentines death. The author reveals the relationship between Peter and Ender through Peter’s perception of Ender and the astronaut-bugger game. “Ender did not see Peter as […]
When Ender leaves to Battle School, not only does he face other “Peters” but he experiences fatigue and loneliness from the severe program he is going through. Valentine will begrudgingly be used to motivate Ender in continuing in the program. Ender has improved at Battle School within a year- the youngest toon leader yet and was highest in the ranks. Everyone respected him as a teacher- not as a friend. This made Ender feel utterly depressed. Nobody saw him as a young child- just a respectable commander and that surely made him agitated. Graff and the other adults began to worry about Ender’s health. So, they called in reinforcements and had Valentine write a letter, “She’d written before, and they didn’t let any of those letters through. Those might have been real, but this was asked for, this was part of their manipulation” (Card-107). The IF uses the person Ender as ever truly cared for, Valentine, to motivate him and give him some kind of shrivel of hope to persevere through the program. They believed that Ender would do anything for his sister Valentine because of his unconditional love for his sibling. Even though this manipulation strategy was transparent and quite frustrating for Ender, he was determined not to play by the adults’ rules and he continued to be the best soldier yet. Later, when Ender was promoted to Commander, he stayed on Earth for two months- never wanting to go to space. Valentine is brought to meet him and convince him to go to Eros,” She walked back up the hill, savagely angry at them for making her come to Ender like this. For she had, after all, done just what they wanted. She had talked Ender into going back into his training, and he wouldn’t soon forgive her for that” (Card-170). Valentine knew the consequences of manipulating her brother- that Ender would think
Ender is selected to go to Battle School in space because of the actions he has displayed against a bully after a device known as a monitor, which allows the leaders of the I.F. to watch and hear everything Ender perceives. Although Ender’s conception was predetermined (in this time period, families are only allowed to have two children unless stated by the government which is why Ender is often called a “Third”), he had to display the correct characteristics to be selected. Ender’s siblings, Peter and Valentine also wore the monitor, but neither wore it as long nor was selected because Peter was too cruel and Valentine was too mild. Once Ender arrives, he makes a couple new friends from the other selected children, including a boy named Alai. When Ender is alone, he plays a mind game and progresses farther than anyone has before so out of the blue, Ender becomes promoted to a group called Salamander Army, where he befriends the only girl, Petra Arkanian, at Battle School. As Ender continues to display his brilliance, he is continuously being promot...
They wanted Ender to see that it was a game because this would insure that the humans would be victorious over the buggers. Because of this, Ender has suffered a great ordeal of losses in everything such as life, love, family, and friendship. At this point of my explanation, we can clearly see that Ender does suffice enough to be a Christ Figure because he began his journey with a full heart and now he is ending his journey with nothing left but a new world to live in with Valentine, while trying to find a safe place for the Queen Bugger to live. This is his last and most important mission of all. It looks like as if Ender is beginning a whole new journey. Truth be told, Ender is done, but he has that final step to go before he can call out to home and finally live the rest of days free of
The relationships between Wiggins siblings changes drastically as the book progresses. In the start of the book Peter is ruthless in his persistent grinding and badgering of Ender and
I related to Ender with many of the decisions that he was forced to make. I agree with his philosophy about ending the fight so that no more fights can grow from it, finishing your opponent, but only in self defense, and standing up too bully's. Ender's game reminded me of countries that expect to much for their children, and that would give everything for them to succeed, almost like overprotective parents.
Bernard makes life even more miserable and lonely for Ender as he doesn't like him and builds a gang of other kids to help torture, insult, and abuse Ender. This gang torments Ender to the point were he feels backed into a corner and has no choice but to fight his way out. With this new found power, Ender gains a friend in Shen. His loneliness seems to subside for a short time as he makes a small group of friends. The adults see how he has gained followers and decide to move him to the Salamander Army in hopes that re-isolation would ignite that same spark in him. Once again, loneliness finds Ender. Because of his superior power and intelligence, he continually finds himself isolated and alone. Colonel Graff states that "Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity" (Card 149).
Most of the children know about the web of deceit and the manipulation, including Ender who works around it because of his own beliefs of his own purpose. Although he is needed in the mission to save the world, from Ender's point of view he needs to do this for Valentine. Or is he just tricking himself into thinking this? Ender realizes there is deceit by the IF and teachers. They deceived Ender into thinking that Valentine's letter was sincerely written by her. Ender realizes that he is being deceived and manipulated, his thoughts were, "It isn't the real thing because they made her write it. She's written before and they didn't let any of those letters through. Those might have been real, but this was asked fo...
He uses a combination of Peter’s ruthlessness with Valentine’s compassion. “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves” (Card 238). Ender reveals this to Valentine because it is the main reason why he despises himself. Ender first uses his method against Stilson after getting his chip removed. He realizes that with the way Stilson is, the only way to stop him is to cause enough pain to deter retaliation. Learning from his enemies does not only occur on Earth. While being rejected in Salamander Army, Ender studies the good and bad techniques in the battle room. Given that, Ender ultimately beats Bonso once he is in command of his own army. He continues to do this with every person and battle he comes into contact with, making him the best commander at
One key component that is produced through Ender’s struggles at his young age is self-reliance. Ender is born unto a family where he is seen as an outcast; he’s a “third.” In a world where population control is major concern, a third-born child is looked upon in disgust. He is isolated even before he is brought into the world. John Kessel reveals his insights into Card’s interpretation of Ender’s exploitation when he says,” Orson Scott Card presents a harrowing tale of abuse. Ender’s parents and older brother (. . .) either ignore the abuse of Ender or participate in it” (Kessel 1). No one contributes more to this abuse than his older brother, Peter. Along with his birth, jealousy and hatred are especially common towards Ender. This disapproving outlook is particularly apparent from Peter. Peter let’s Ender know hi...
One of the elements of isolation that leads to the loss of childhood is the hostile characters at the battle school, particularly Graff and Bonzo. Graff stands behind the action and makes things happen, while Bonzo is too rigid to see opportunities in front of him. Isolation towards Ender starts in the shuttle before they reach the Battle School. To prove this, Graff says “’I’ll have him completely separated from the rest of the boys by the time we get to school’” (Card, page 27). Ender expects Graff to be tough and pick on him, but instead he sets him up as the best by continuously bragging about him. This causes hatred of the other soldiers to grow towards Ender. Graff means to do that to make Ender stand out from the others and to make him into the best soldier. Ender’s isolation does not stop there, but it continues as he finally begins to get along with the Launchies and make friends: “’So as soon as he can cope with a situation, you move him to one he can’t cope with,’” (Card, page 66) says General Levy when he finds out Graff is transferring Ender to Salamander Army. This declares that Graff does not want Ender to get used to where he is and that he wants Ender to be able to handle everything that is thrown at him, which is a form of isolation. I...
Infatuation causes Helena to lose all sense of dignity, as can be seen when in the woods, she desperately pleads with Demetrius to ?but treat me as your spaniel?. Here, Helena also becomes irrational, obsessed with pursuing Demetrius, though it is obvious that Demetrius is fixated on winning Hermia?s hand in marriage. Helena?s infatuation also causes her to see things from a skewed perspective, for she falsely believes that when she divulges Hermia?s plans for eloping with Lysander, Demetrius? love for Helena will rekindle. As the audience, we know that the most probable course of action for Demetrius upon hearing such news is to pursue Lysander and Hermia, or to report them to Theseus or Egeus. Clearly, infatuation has clouded Helena?s ability to think clearly, and she sees things in her own idealistic way.
a quartet that chronicles the life of a man called Ender and his sister Valentine. In this
Ender is also faced with another conflict of not going to Command School to be trained as the commander leading the Third Invasion, and will probably have no home to return to at all because no one is able to save the Earth. Ender is humanity’s last chance to save Earth from the buggers. Ender returns to Earth after he graduated from Battle School and moved up to Command School. On Earth, Ender meets his sister he still loves, Valentine, at a private lake, and they chat about what is going on. Later on, they start to discuss about Ender going back to Command School, but Ender shows that he doesn’t want to return to space; he has hurt too many people. Finally, Valentine urges Ender that he has to go to space to fight the buggers by telling him who will take Ender’s spot as commander; Ender gives no answer. Before they go, Valentine shows how much she loves him, “I love you, Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decided” (242). Ender also thinks about the beauty of the Earth, he says that Earth is not a globe thousands of miles across; it is a forest with a shining lake, and goes into detail about the beauty of life on Earth. He begins to think about Valentine, a sister who protected him from hurt and terror, and someone who Ender would fight the buggers for; she is the one thing that matters to Ender. This quote summarizes