Questions
Finn
Chapter 1 – Third
1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?
It’s what all adults say before something that you know is going to hurt you. They say it out of reassurance. An example would be that when your going to get a shot and you know it’s going to kind of or not at all hurt, they say it’s not going to hurt at all. So when they do it, it will feel like it didn’t hurt.
2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is
a negative or positive fact to:
- his parents,
- his brother, Peter,
- his sister, Valentine, and
- his classmates.
It could be a possible negative to his parents in social activity, but all in all I would be glad to have a third child. Then again the government only let them have a third child to put him in the military so that would be a definite negative.
It is a negative to Peter because it makes him feel like they don’t care about him and that no one pays attention to him.
I think it would be a positive to Valentine so that way there is another family member that’s closer to herself. Such as Peter he isn’t very close to Valentine and usually fights, but Ender is really close to her because they both stick up for eachother.
It is a positive for the bullies in his class but I don’t see why it would be a negative in his classmates eyes. Ender is the smartest of the group so maybe that would be it then, him just being better than everybody.
Chapter 2 – Peter
1. .Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine? Support your answer
with evidence from the novel.
It didn’t seem like it at first when he was threatening them both, but at the end of the chapter, Peter said “Ender, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know how it feels, I’m sorry, I’m your brother and I love you.” (15) and I guess that kind of gave it away that he was joking when he did it.
2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the
rest of the chapter?
I guess because he said I know how it feels, so maybe this has happened to him before. Not at home but at school maybe so he just wanted to take his anger out on Ender and Valentine and then said sorry at the end.
3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)? What
did the author do to help create these feelings? Give examples.
Ender I feel is a genius that gets picked on by the bullies because he is smart and is a “third”.
Valentine is possibly Ender’s one good sibling that will help him and in the coming chapters will probably have to part with her.
Peter I think is bi-polar because he was acting so serious when he threatened them both and then said I’m sorry a bunch like he was feeling all passive and sorry for his actions.
Chapter 3 – Graff
1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?
It was a lie to make it so that Ender won’t trust Valentine because she was the people in the beginning’s weak link that could possibly start over everything (16).
2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does
Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?
I think it means that he trusts Graff and thinks of him as the family Ender is leaving behind.
Chapter 4 – Launch
1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools
that the others use to help us all survive.”
I think whoever said it means that individual people who can be used for something are used for the greater good or bad for other people to survive. They mean they could use Ender as a tool of survival if the buggers ever come.
2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should
include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose.
They want to isolate him from other people so they won’t tell him how it goes around here so he won’t adopt the system. They want him to be creative so they can’t lose him when battle strategies come into play when you have to be creative.
3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm? What does this incident tell us about
Ender? Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival? Why or why not?
I don’t think Ender meant to break the other boy’s arm on purpose but meant to hurt him enough so that they wouldn’t hurt him in the days to come. Which I can guess is acceptable but not all things are when it comes to survival
Chapter 5 – Games
1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in
front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not? What is positive and what is
negative about showing feelings? What is positive and what is negative about not
showing feelings?
I don’t think it’s very healthy, but by doing it he kind of I guess intimidates the others by not showing affection when all of it is being held down and it all has to come out sometime when something really emotional happens. A positive thing about showing feelings is that is shows that you have some feelings, and a negative about showing feelings in his camp I guess is that it shows weakness or others will think he’s weak.
2. How did Ender beat Bernard? Is this an unusual solution to his problem?
Ender beat Bernard not by physical ways but by humiliating him in front of everyone and then have Dap come in and tell him what happened. It’s unusual because he broke the system just to make fun of Bernard but it helped him from keeping him as being the commander of the group and being a jerk to Ender.
3. List the different coping mechanisms (ways of dealing with difficulties) Ender
shows. For each one describe whether the overall result of each is helpful or
harmful to Ender.
He dealt with the bully at his school by breaking his arm on accident and showing them not to mess with him again. I would think this is harmful for him because it was his excuse that got him put into battle camp.
He dealt with Bernard by embarrassing him in front of his launchies and preventing him from being the commander of his group and Alai being the bridge between Ender’s and Bernard’s friendship. This was helpful because it kept Bernard from picking on Ender and created a new friend for him too.
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