Ender's Game Question #8

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Ender's Game Question #7

Q. Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? Describe those settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

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Yes, there is one setting in particular and if you have not read the book then you are not going to know exactly what it is I am talking about. When Ender gets his leave on is way actually to the Command school they stop back at his hometown and he stays in a mansion for three months before Colonel Graff ever does anything. There are trees everywhere and there is a beautiful lake just so quiet and calm. There is no one else around for miles, so you are all alone. Ender would take his raft that he made and go out to the middle of the lake and sit and think. He would also go in and swim for a while. This place is so meaningful to me because it reminds me of going on vacation to Hawaii which I am doing for Spring Break, but it is just so beautiful in Hawaii and this setting in the book seems so pleasant and beautiful. It lets you get away from everything like for instance school for me and for Ender I guess it would be getting away from Battle School. These two places are just a time to relax and get everything out of your head. The raft that Ender built was mainly for it reminded him of null gravity. It was as if he was floating around in the Battle Room again. Although Ender hated Battle School, he hated Earth more because he has been in space for over five or six years, but he still wanted to see his family after the war was over, his sister saw and did not let him go. Valentine knew that their brother Peter would use Ender to help take over the world because Peter knew that Ender could be controlled. As Demosthenes Valentine made it so Ender could not leave to go back to Earth.

Ender's Game Question #6

Q. Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

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“You’re a hero, Ender. They’ve seen what you did, you and the others. I don’t think there’s a government on Earth that hasn’t voted you their highest medal.”

“I killed them all, didn’t I?” Ender asked.

“All who?” asked Graff. “The buggers? That was the idea.”

Mazer leaned in close. “That’s what the war was for.” “All their queens. So I killed all their children, all of everything.” “They decided that when they attached us. It wasn’t your fault. It’s what had happened.”

Ender grabbed Mazer’s uniform and hung onto it, pulling him down so they were face to face. “I didn’t want to kill them all. I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! You didn’t want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it.” He was crying . He was out of control.

This made me think, “what if I was made or tricked into killing millions or even billions of this or people.” I would be really emotional and mad because I am not a killer as Ender is not a killer. It hurt me to read this because it is not fait to take some ones childhood from them and then make them kill people or aliens. It is so I guess evil to do so. It does not make sense, just because he is a genius does not mean you should take him and make him into a soldier because you yourself could not figure out how to defeat what ever it is that you are trying to defeat. If they decided to tell him, what he was doing and not just preparing for a war, but actually fighting it he might have taken consideration and seeing as he could not leave anyway he would have just chosen to do it because he also knew that no one else could, they did not have the intellect as Ender did. It would have made this better on Ender’s behalf.

Ender's Game Question #5

Q. What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

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The mood of this novel kind of changes here and there, but it is mainly a glum mood. No, I do not find that this book saddens me in any way. The fact that a kid, six years of age is in the army giving orders and not being able to enjoy his childhood makes me mad. Well actually is does kind of sadden me because a kid that is six years old is being picked on and beaten up by older kids. He is just being treated unfairly, being threaten to be killed. In self-defense, he is killing people, but he is not noticing and he is also not being told. He is being trained and his being kept from his family never being able to see them again, except for his sister because she helps him move on. When he is being trained every one there is trying to break him down so they can find his weakness, but if they do that he would not be able to continue fighting because he would not want to. They do not break him completely so he continues to fight for everybody in space. He continues to fight and fight without even knowing that what he is doing is for real. When they moved him to Command school that early I realized that it was time to start the war and everyone in the book thought that he was just going to train for that moment. When he was told that he has just beaten all of them he broke up and said that he did not want to be a killer like his brother Peter. Ender had realized that he was just like his brother; killing for pleasure, but in reality Ender did not know that he was actually killing them. Ender thought it was just a game and he continued to play because he was made to.

Ender's Games Question #4

Q. What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

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The climax of this story is when Ender is asked to go to “Battle School” to train to win the war against the “Buggers.” Unlike all the other books or novel that have read when the climax has always been in the muddle or end of the book, but with this one, it is with in the first three chapters. Once Ender gets into the car with Colonel Graff, there is no going back and Graff told him that before Ender agreed to leave with him. A person from I.F. comes to the Wiggins house and they talk to the parents about Ender. Ender is asked into the living room with the I.F. Officer and his parents and they start of by taking about what happened at school with a kid named Stilson. After that, they were talking about Ender going to Battle School to train and become a leader so to speak. The Officer asked Ender’s parents to leave so that Graff could talk to Ender alone about his decision. Graff asks Ender if he would come to Battle School to train and all that for the war or would he just like to stay there on Earth with his family and be known as the “Third” all his life and be made fun of at school for being so. Graff says that he has from the time that he (Graff) gets into the car to make his decision. Ender decides right there that he wants to go because apparently he is needed. They tell that family and then Ender leaves for Battle School. The events of this novel rather make me mad because the kid is so young and he does not get to enjoy his child hood because he will be up there training and fight “Buggers.” These events also make me feel I do not really know, but its rather cool to be able to get to train for a war and soon become a Commander of ships and fight a war while you just thought you were training on a simulator. I think it would be cool to be able to do this, but suck because you do not get to have a childhood because you are train and since you know so much about all the stuff up there in space you do not ever get to go home so you become governor of one of the Bugger colonies.

Ender's Game Question #3

Q. Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?


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The main characters are Ender Wiggin, Colonel Graff, Valentine, Alai, Petra, Crazy Tom, Fly Molo, Peter, and Mazer Rackham. Yes, I like them because they were all truthful and they followed commands that were given to them. Ender Wiggin was the youngest kid that has ever been a Commander of a fleet of ships. He was the youngest to do anything that they did in “Battle School and Command School.” Colonel Graff was hard on Ender, but if was for a good thing. He was to push Ender so hard so that he would use all is abilities that he had in him to win. Valentine was Ender’s best friend so to speak. She was the only person Ender would listen to when eh was feeling bad and didn’t want to go any further with this school. Alai was Ender’s best friend in “Battle School.” He would always help Ender with techniques and maneuvers for his battles to get prepared. Petra was the one who showed Ender who to shoot his freeze gun so accurately. Crazy Tom and Fly Molo were just ones that followed orders to the fullest of their abilities. Mazer Rackham trained Ender on how to fight the buggers and defeat them. All these people reveal that not all people can do what they do, that is why only these people were chosen to help Ender win the war. Ender could trust them and they could trust Ender with whatever it was that he gave them. Ender could trust them to follow it accordingly.

Ender's Game Question # 2

Q. Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

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Yes I do think there are similar situations like this. In other countries, there are kids with guns that I guess are supposed to fight with the adults in a war. These kids are only around nine to fifteen. The fact that they make “kids” fight in the army at that age just is not right. I guess the way that the novel says that it can be resolved is by using what you have. Kids that age yes can hold guns and are eligible to fight, but that does not make it right. In situations that have to do with war and the people are unprepared, they take what they have and they use it. In Ender’s Game Ender is a kid who they think can make a difference up there in “Battle School” and “Command School” and he did because he was a genius and he could come up with tactics that no other person could ever come up with. He made a difference to those people, they thought he could “fix” their problem with the buggers and they realized that he was that person who could do it. Ender defeated the Buggers faster than Mazer Rackham did. Mazer Rackham was the first person who defeated them in the first war. The thing is, is that when Ender was in “Battle School” and he thought he was just training for the real war; well actually, that was the war. When he lost ships and fleets he was really losing real people, but those people in the ships knew what was happening. All they did was follow their Commander and they succeeded.

Ender's Games Question # 1

Q1. What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007.

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The major theme of this novel I think is “even though you are young it does not mean that you cannot be a leader.” In this book Ender’s Game, he is known as “Third” because he was the third person born in his family. In this book, parents were only allowed to have two kids, but the government allowed them to have this “Third” because he was supposed to be some kind of weapon. When the main character Andrew “Ender” Wiggin was six years, old a person came from I.F. that was a person from a place called “Battle school.” He talk to Ender’s parents about it and then the I.F. Officer Colonel Graff talked to ender and asked him if he would want to go or stay, Graff gave Ender from the time before he got into Colonel Graff’s car to make up his mind. Ender chose then. This theme is important to teenagers living in 2007 because it shows that even if they are young they van still lead an army or be a commander of a whole fleet of ships that are to destroy all of the “Buggers” aliens. Even if you are, just ten you can be a leader of many people. You can lead them to victory and they will be so thankful. In this book once he entered “Battle School” he could not leave unless he was “Iced” which means that they do something so wrong that they are sent back to earth. “Battle School” is actually in space. This theme lets teenagers of 2007 know that they are able to lead people a lot older than they are.

Question 8

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Question 7

Q. Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.



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Question 6

Q. Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is the passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.


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Question 5

Q. What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?


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Question 4

Q. What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?


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Question 3

Q. Are there any current situationsin the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed?"


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Question 2

Q. Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

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Question 1

Q. What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

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