Chapter Eight: Rat I. Summary The chapter begins with Graff talking with Anderson and telling him to throw Ender in unfair situations to see what he does and rank them by the increase of difficulty. Anderson disagrees and states that the game is everything at Battle School and if they change it, everything will be ruined, but Graff says that they have to prepare the soldiers for the next bugger war. Unlike Salamander Army, Rat Army has no discipline whatsoever and the commander, who is Rose the Nose, is too laid back. Dink Meeker is one of the toon leaders of Rat Army and asks for Ender to join his toon, because he thinks Ender has potential. Rose tells Ender to follow the arbitrary rules he made up, but when Ender refused to, he got annoyed …show more content…
Some of the older kids try to intimidate the Launchies to stop them from attending the extra practice sessions with Ender and a few of them try to attack the Launchies in the Battleroom. However, they manage to escape with their skills and with Ender’s help, since he beat some of the boys up. While Ender is playing the mind game, he sees Peter and is glad that he is killed in the game soon after. During the next practice session, the battle room is full and no one seems to be against it. Ender has nightmares of when he sees Peter in the game and hates the part of him that is like his malicious …show more content…
I wonder what would happen next if Ender lost all of the compassion and sympathy he had, and became just like Peter. If Ender lost all of the compassion and sympathy he had, and became just like Peter, then there would be no point for Ender to be attending Battle School, because they needed Ender to be half-Peter and half-Valentine. The teachers would probably get Valentine to reach out to Ender or the government would do everything possible to make him the way he was again. 2. What point is the author trying to make by stating, “These other armies, they aren’t the enemy. It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy” (Card 107, 108)? The author is trying to make the point that the teachers are making the soldiers hate each other just to win a game by stating, “These other armies, they aren’t the enemy. It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy” (Card 107, 108). Instead of hating each other, they really should hate the teachers, because they are the ones pitting them against each other. 3. What character are you most like? Why? I am most like Dink, because he is nice to Ender and unlike Rose, he believes in Ender, like I do with my friends. Dink knows that the battles are just a game and that they shouldn’t be killing each other because of it, which I completely agree
Ender, of course, hates how he is becoming so much like Peter, and tries not to injure anyone. Later in the game, Ender looks into a mirror, and instead of seeing his own reflection, he sees Peter, thus confirming that Ender’s greatest fear to be like his brother. Ender also plays war games in the battle arena with his own squad. Although they are only practice games for the actual war, they have caused a war between the students at the school. This jealousy and hatred then led to the death of Bonzo.
Everything has its secrets “Persuade him that he wants to come with us more than he wants to stay... if that doesn’t work ill lie to him”(Card16).In the book “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card, one of the main characters Colonel Graff leads ender through his missions. Ender is chosen from a mix of his brother and sister’s personalities. Peter was too violent, Valentine was to caring and forgiving, and thus ender has both these characteristics. Graff has been watching him, even before battle school and has secretly been testing him. Graff prepares him for a life changing war between them and the buggers.
However Ender started hating his life. Ender was given his own army for the game in the battleroom. Suprisingly, Ender's army beat Salamander Army which had his old
Ender’s promotion to a “Toon Leader” of Phoenix army and the facilitator of trainings to Launchies, leaves him with little time for his friends. Over time his camaraderie with his friends deteriorates and he struggles to be sincere with anyone. This is exemplified when Ender thinks “But with his old friends there was no laughter, no remembering. Just work” (Card 139). At the same time, Ender misses his early years at the Battle School.
The chapter opens with two adults speaking about Ender, once again. The record his actions in the Giant’s game. Meanwhile, Alai asks Ender to help him manipulate the desk’s security system. When the two boys reach their barracks, they find out that Ender is transferred to the Salamander Army. When Ender goes to the army’s barracks, he is taunted for his small size.
8). After that he compared himself to Peter—his brother, who is known for being an evil and cruel child. This is not completely true because of Ender’s gift of compassion and Peter’s lack of it, but Ender despises Peter and hates how he is becoming more like
In Orson Scott Card 's "Ender 's Game", Card utilizes Peter as a foil character for Ender whom the teachers manipulate into violent actions; thus, although Ender destroys the enemy, his empathy allows him to understand the buggers and achieve peace, which supports his evolution into an exceptional
Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.
My book report is on "Ender 's Game" by Orson Scott Card. Ender 's Game is a military sci-fi book that has received many awards. The author did continue the series on Ender, however the military aspect of it did not continue with the series. Ender Wiggins was only allowed to born so that he can save the human race from exstinction. Since birth he was a outcast, hated by his brother Peter, and constantly being hurt by everyone except his sister Valentine.
Like when he says to himself “I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.” Peter is there in the book to give the reader an idea of a cruel person compared with Ender. Ender doesn’t want to hurt, but he is forced to. Peter enjoys hurting, and the control it gives him.
On Earth there was a bully named, Stilson. Ender found himself getting physically abused by him daily and when he finally got his opportunity, he made sure he was never bullied again. In battle school, there was a commander named, Bonzo that threatened to kill him; then, in the same scenario Ender decided to make sure that he would win the war and erase all future battles. In argument with Major Anderson, Graff states, “Ender’s not a killer. He just wins--thoroughly” (226).
This is Valentine’s main downfall unlike Peter who is the Id. This is the primal, non organized side This was Peter’s main downfall yet Ender seems to be a perfect balance of the
In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, Ender is continually set up against impossible odds by the International Fleet, which is part of a plan to train Ender to fight in the Third Invasion and end the bugger wars forever. Ender’s trials are portrayed more convincingly in the book, as the book shows him struggling with the expectations placed upon him more so than in the movie. An important theme in Ender’s Game is that Ender is continually kept in the dark about the events happening around him. This theme is prevalent throughout the book, and sets the stage for the book’s climax, the Third Invasion.
However, the majority of the battles he fights are constructed and orchestrated and controlled by the Adults. Ender lives in a military archetype which assumes humans are compliant, flexible, controllable pawns, tool to be used for the benefit of others. Ender’s insecurities,doubts and fears, as to why he is so isolated, how he is becoming more like petter, how he is an ostracized genius, all that sets him apart– make him diligent, sympathetic, preservant, resilient, flexible, and above all pliable, impressionable, malleable, qualities far more common in children. Supporting quote: “‘So what do we do now?’ asked Alai.
His compassion is proven many times, and one of them is the fact that he hates that he feels just like Peter. If Ender had no compassion, why would he have regretted acting like Peter? Ender is also very sympathetic to Bean (even though Ender tries not to show it) and Ender would see himself in Bean, how small and young Bean is but still so determined. Ender initially realizes that he is isolating Bean because Ender himself was once isolated and he wants to force Bean to flourish like Ender did. Ender also has so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, and could understand and anticipate them.