Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. How did Ender provoke Bonzo? How did Bonzo respond?
Ender didn’t treat Bonzo with resepct and he
beat him at his own game several of times, so Bonzo evetnuslly tried to kill him.
2. Who was Stilson? Why was Ender thinking of
him?
Stilson was the kid that Ender beat to death
in the beginning and he was thinking of him because after he killed Bonzo he
realized that he was turning in to a killer and he didn’t want to be labeled as
that.
3. Why does Ender still expect help from the teachers?
Ender still expects help from the teachers
because he knew that he was there big project, and that they still wanted to
improve him.
4. Did you know Stilson and Bonzo were dead? Find the specific clues in this
chapter about the deaths.
Well because when Ender finished something he
was extremely thorough, and afterwards both of them were being extremely nine
responsive.
5. Was Ender justified? Why did they not tell him of the deaths?
He was justified that that was they only
possible ways for him to get out of the situations that he was in. They tell him about the deaths because they
didn’t want him to see himself as killer and they wanted him to still believe
that he innocent.
Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you
pretend to be.” Explain what this quote means. State an example of this idea.
Well… I think this is saying that’s it’s easy
to pretend to be something your not and not adapt they there ways, meaning is
easy to act as something you not, but when it comes down to it, the cover may
be harder then it looks.
2. Is it a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers? (survival of the
fittest)
Yes, because if we didn’t have the ability to
overcome those who are in our way then we wouldn’t be were we are now.
3. Discuss the conversation between Ender and Valentine on the raft. What does
Ender reveal about himself and his enemies?
When Ender and valentine are on the raft,
Ender reveals that he wants Peter to love him and he doesn’t want to beat him.
4. Discuss Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers. How have Peter
and Ender’s roles shifted? How does Valentine feel about each? Valentine has always loved Ender more but now
she’s working with Peter. Now Peter has
become the one who is trying to help
people and Ender is becoming the killer.
5. Discuss Graff’s statements about why the war with the Buggers was
inevitable.
Well, because they had no way of understanding each other so eventually, they
would come to kill each other.
Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros? How does Ender figure out the truth about
Eros? Ender wasn’t sure why Eros was
built how it was, but eventually Mazer that it was built by the buggers.
2. Describe how Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had?
Because he’s the only one that know what he’s
doing be acting as Enders enimie.
3. Why had Mazer been dishonest with Ender? Do you think Ender could have
handled the truth? Mazer was dishonest to Ender because he
wanted Ender to do the battles against the buggers without holding back
anything. No, because despite the fact
that he was a killer , they wanted him to think of it as not a big deal,
because if he had known that he was killing living things he would hold back
and wouldn’t be so succeful.
4. Have they pushed the children too far? Was it worth it?
No, I don’t think they pushed the children to
far, I think that they trained them to the extant that was reasonable, and
would get them through the battles. Yes
it was worth it because in the end they were successful.
5. Is genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is
annihilated, xenocide, ever justified? Was the xenocide of the Buggers
inevitable? Why? The only justification was the necessity to survive, because
in this case, the races would eventually kill each other off.
Chapter 15 – Speaker for the Dead
1. Valentine said, “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is
choose to fill the roles given to you by good people, by people who love you.”
After what has happened in Ender’s life, what would he think of this statement?
Ender would probably easily to relate to what
she said because he was used brutally by Graff and the IF.
2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. What is
Ender’s opinion about the deaths?
Ender feels like a killer after killing Bonzo
and Stilson, but that’s not who wanted to be labeled as, there for his opinion
was rather dark and not encouraging.
3. Why did Valentine make sure that Ender could never return to earth?
Because she knew that if ever came back to
earth then he would be used to take over the world.
4. What is ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of
lives? It’s ironic because peter had always been the one who wanted to hurt the
people and was evil, Peter saved millions of lives by preventing the war, but
Ender was the one who killed all the buggers, and actually was trying to keep
everyone alive.
5. What knowledge did Ender gain the enabled him to write The Hive-Queen? Give
specific details.
Well, because the buggers didn’t realize that
the humans were each individual life forms and that by killing them they were
literally killing off there populations, because the buggers were just one big
genetic tool that worked together as a hive, so when the The Hive Queen
realized that, the buggers went back to there home planet and decided not to
attack, but Ender still lead his fleet to destroy them.
6. Why does Ender publish the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead”
and not his own name?
Ender doesn’t put his name on the book because
everything written was from the Queen Bugger’s point of view. Ender also didn’t want to personify the book
or take credit for it because all he really wanted was for people to get the knowledge
on what was going on.
