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Identity And Innocence In Ender's Game

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The two anonymous voices are talking about a boy who they have been watching for some time and want him for what seems to be a serious mission. 2. The characterization of Ender is he is extremely intelligent and can actually be very blunt. Peter is Ender’s older brother who is aggressive along with being a little bipolar. Valentine is younger than Peter but older than Ender. She is caring and tries her hardest to protect Ender from her older brother. 3. Ender knows that he is looked down upon in his society because he is a third and is more intelligent than other children, but he also knows that he an important piece for the government because he lives as a third. Ender’s internal conflicts were deciding whether or not to go to Battle School with Graff and his external conflicts were fighting Stilton in addition to being afraid of Peter. 4. Graff manipulates …show more content…

By chapter 10 and 11 in Ender’s Game, Ender’s identity and innocence has drastically changed. For one thing, he became a commander at such an early age and at this point hasn’t lost any games, but as he continues winning he gains more and more enemies and gradually starts to lose friends. On Ender’s first day of commanding Dragon army his leadership style was very straight to the point with high expectations and the only one who seemed to be meeting those expectations was Bean. When Ender realized this he started singling out and isolating Bean, which was similar to what Graff had done to Ender when he was it his launch group. 12. Ender’s relationship with Bonzo was never good from the beginning. The only difference is that when they first met they Bonzo had no expectations for Ender and thought he had no apparent potential, but when Ender had become commander and beat Salamander army he had realized that Ender was better than him but he couldn’t accept it. After Ender brutally beats Bonzo, he becomes very emotional because he didn’t want to fight Bonzo and he’s starting to remind himself of

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