Enders game questions 12-15

Ender's Game Questions Chapters 12 - 15

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.