Ender's Game questions 12-15

Chapter 12

11.      Ender provoked Bonzo by mentioning honor, and how Bonzo’s father would want him to have honor, and not fight a little kid with multiple accomplices. Bonzo responded by fighting Ender one on one, but also getting very angry with him.

22.      Stilson was a bully that was bullying Ender, and was going to beat him up, but Ender attacked him first and beat him brutally. Ender was thinking of Stilson because like Bonzo, Ender beat them both brutally when they were fighting Ender in a bullying manner.

33.      Ender still expects help from his teachers because he is still a kid, and they say he is there tool to save the human race, so if they need him why let him get killed or mortally injured.

4.4.     “The sickening way Stilson’s bones had given way.” (209) “Bonzo collapsed, fell to the side, and sprawled directly under the spray of steaming water from a shower.” (211) “…the empty dead look in his eyes. He was already finished then. Already unconscious….just that dead stupid look on his face, that terrible look, the way Stilson looked when I finished him.”(212) “Only the second death in the history of the school. At least it wasn’t suicide this time.” (226) These quotes from the book is all evidence that Ender killed Stilson and Bonzo, that they were dead after Ender fought them.

55.      I think Ender was justified in the murders of Bonzo and Stilson. For one he didn’t attack either of them first, in fact he tried to stop them from getting involved in a fight with Ender. Also Ender logically killed them, if there is such a thing. He accidently killed them, he just brutally beat them up, and so they would never attack him again.

Chapter 13

1.       What this quote means is if one creates a fake identity with different beliefs than their own. The person with the fake identity adopts the beliefs of their alter ego. For example, when Valentine writes as Demosthenes, she adopts some of his ideas and beliefs.

2.      I believe that it is a natural instinct for humans to be killers. Although I think that most of the time it isn’t a good instinct for us to be killers. It does come in handy for humans to be killers, because if one gets in a bad situation the killer, self-preservation instinct, could save your life.

3.      What Ender reveals about himself and his enemies is that they are similar, because he has studied them, and that maybe they aren't that different. That the buggers and he think similar in the sense of innovative war tactics.

4.      Peter and Ender’s roles have shifted in Valentine’s life by Peter being the main brother in her life and that she isn’t as afraid of Peter as of Ender. Valentine loves Peter, but also she doesn’t completely trust him. She still loves Ender but not as much as Peter, and now she is kind of afraid of him.

5.      The war with the buggers was inevitable according to Graff because the humans and buggers will never be able to communicate, so will never be able to talk about a peace treaty. Also there isn’t room for two races in on universe, and the Buggers attacked Earth first so they want us dead, so war is going to happen.

Chapter 14

1.       What disturbs Ender about Eros is that it’s crowded and the floors slope up instead of down. How Ender figures out the truth about Eros is Mazer tells him that it was a bugger outpost.

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 pushed the children too far, but only because I think it wasn't necessary to attack the buggers. If I thought it was I would think it was necessary to push the children that hard.

5.      Neither Genocide nor xenocide is ever justified. The annihilation of an entire race or group is never okay; in fact it’s disgusting and even if the race is evil, the race can be forgiven and change. The xenocide of the Buggers wasn't inevitable because the Buggers were going to leave the Humans alone, but now the Humans had to invade the Buggers and kill them off.

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 beliefs about the deaths of Bonzo and Stilson is that the trial said it was for Graff, but really it was an attack on him, it was meant to make him look like an insane criminal. Also he thinks that it is ironic that they consider those murders a crime but not the xenocide of the Buggers.

3.      Valentine made sure that Ender could never return to earth, because if he did Peter would use Ender as a tool to keep himself in power by showing that Ender was his brother, and he would just make Enders life a stressful political mess.

4.      What’s Ironic about Valentine stating that Peter has saved millions of lives, because he has terrorized Valentines and Ender’s lives, and because he had Valentine write as Demosthenes which pretty much started the human war? Additionally Ender took millions of lives, even though it would seem as if it should be the other way for peter and Ender.

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…" (321). This is the hive queen transferring its knowledge about how it didn't want to attack Earth again.

6.      Ender publishes the book using the pseudonym, Speaker for the Dead, because he doesn't want people to read the book because he wrote it, he wants people to read the book for what it is. He also doesn't want to be famous anymore, he just wants to spread the knowledge that the buggers weren't evil, and were intelligent beings.