Enders Game Questions

Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. How did Ender provoke Bonzo?  How did Bonzo respond?
I forget how Ender provoked Bonzo but the way Bonzo responded was by challenging him and saying that he was going to kill Ender when actually it was Ender that killed Bonzo in the bathroom.
2. Who was Stilson? Why was Ender thinking of him?
Stilson was the kid that Ender beat up in school when he lost his monitor. The kid was put in the hospital and died later on. Ender thought of him because that was what he was doing when he slept, he would think of all the people he hurt and would wake in sweat or fear.
3. Why does Ender still expect help from the teachers?
He expects help from the teachers because they are teachers and he needed help from them at some times. Mostly for protection and he knew that they were most likely watching and listening to him and Bonzo when they were in the fight in the bathroom. 
4. Did you know Stilson and Bonzo were dead? Find the specific clues in this chapter about the deaths.
I can't find specific clues because I don't have the book anymore but I remember it saying in the beginning that they had only two deaths in the battle school and Bonzo was the second. About Stilson I think it said something about bad news and that he had died in the hospital and I'm not sure how he could die but he did. 
5. Was Ender justified? Why did they not tell him of the deaths?
They didn't tell Ender about the deaths because they didn't want to stress him out anymore than he already was with all the battles and practices with dragon army. I'm not sure what "Was Ender justified" would mean but he definitely wasn't given the same rules as everyone else in the battle school.

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.
I think it means like that if you are pretending to be somebody that if you are the best you can be at being that identity that you eventually start acting and becoming him or her in a sense when you are trying to be yourself. An example would be like when Valentine wrote that essay in school and it was so well that her teacher wanted to send it in to the government and Valentine had to beg not to because it was too much like Demosthenes. 
2. Is it a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers? (survival of the fittest)
Well for me it isn't a good thing for humans to be killers but it's the way that we can do it and why we do it matters the most. Like when Peter would kill squirrels just to kill squirrels and peel back their skin and watch them die, that's wrong. But if I were starving and saw a turkey and had a gun that is a fast non painful way for me to get meat and the turkey to not feel anything. If humans didn't have this instinct we all probably would've been killed by tigers or some other natural predator a long time ago.
3. Discuss the conversation between Ender and Valentine on the raft. What does Ender reveal about himself and his enemies?
He reveals about himself is that since he has been at battle school, he has been having to be his own company. That it's different to actually have someone here that actually cares on what he has to say. With Valentine he feels safe. What he reveals about his enemies is that the way he beat all of his opponents at battle school is that he knew the way they were thinking and could beat them by doing something different when they thought they knew how he thought. The problem is that he doesn't know how to beat the buggers because he doesn't know how they think. So the problem for him is how is going to be able to beat them if he doesn't know how they think. 4. Discuss Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers. How have Peter and Ender’s roles shifted? How does Valentine feel about each?
Valentines conflicting thoughts on each of her brothers is that she thinks she has come to know the new Peter, and Ender is just a far off memory until then. She feels like Peter and Ender are two faces of the coin, and she is the metal between. That if one is up the other is down, and Ender feels like he's facing down while he is at battle school.
5. Discuss Graff’s statements about why the war with the Buggers was inevitable.
Graff was saying that the third invasion was inevitable because they had sent ships over 70 years ago and their most outdated equipment is attacking the home planet. The master ansible is the machine that controls all the ships and it's on Eros. He was saying that the only thing they need now is a battle commander good enough to command the ships. Until then they will be waiting to attack.

Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros? How does Ender figure out the truth about Eros?
What disturbed Ender about Eros was that the hallways were always too narrow and short. That they didn't seem to be made for humans and hadn't been created by humans. Ender figures out the truth about Eros by his teacher, Mazer Rackham, that Eros had actually been a bugger outpost. So that's why it felt like it wasn't made by humans. 
2. Describe how Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had?
Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had in a way because he hasn't had a full on teacher yet. All that have been looking over him are administrators and others that have higher ranking. Mazer is going to be Ender's only teacher because Mazer is going to be teaching Ender how to fight against the buggers and different battle routines. 
3. Why had Mazer been dishonest with Ender? Do you think Ender could have
handled the truth?
If Mazer had been honest with Ender it would have pressured him too much and would've cracked. So they decided to lie to Ender about him using the simulator/master ansible. I do not think Ender could have handled he truth because he was already breaking down from how much they were working him alone. If he had been told the truth he would have gone crazy or made too many mistakes and ultimately destroyed his fleet or even the human race. 
4. Have they pushed the children too far? Was it worth it?
I think they had pushed the children too far. Not only had Ender and Alai, Beans, and Petra felt the pressure, but so had everyone else. In the final assessment, I think everyone was stressed because they were attacking the home planet and it would have been horrible if they hadn't won. They would have to retry and maybe win the next time. 
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?
I'm not sure if the xenocide of the buggers was inevitable because when Ender found the hive queen egg she said that they had learned from their mistakes and had decided not to attack like they had in the last 2 invasions. Even though earth had already sent ships to attack about 70 years after the second invasion. 

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?
I'm not sure, but what I think Ender would think of this statement is that it would be hard to listen to good people or people who love him because he has been lied to and cheated so many times. He just should try to make his own decisions and listen to what he thinks is best about his own life. It also kind of depends on the role the person gives you.  2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. What is Ender’s opinion about the deaths?
Ender's opinion about the deaths is that he was not the the one who provoked Stilson and Bonzo but it was only an act of self defense. It was not Ender's fault for their deaths but he only wished to be left alone so he beat both of them into submission and later death. 
3. Why did Valentine make sure that Ender could never return to earth?
Valentine made sure that Ender could never return to earth because it said that if Ender came to earth then every tyrant to be would want him and then place him in front of the army and watch people either flock to join of cower in fear. So Valentine knew that Ender had to stay in space. Plus if Ender had came to earth he would want to relax and everybody there wouldn't let him. 
4. What is ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of lives?
The irony of Valentine saying that Peter saved millions of lives is that he ultimately wanted to rule the world. He prevented the league from falling apart but if he hadn't he would've had to conquer the world piece by piece instead of just in one big lump. By keeping the league together he saved millions of lives.
5. What knowledge did Ender gain the enabled him to write The Hive-Queen? Give specific details.
The way Ender gained the knowledge that enabled him to write The Hive-Queen was that when he and Valentine had gone to a bugger planet Ender explored and found that this place was the same place that he had created in the game Giants Drink. When he went to the tower he thought about how when he killed the rug snake, which was not there, he looked in the mirror and saw Peter. Instead, he went to the mirror and looked behind it and found holes, and in one of those holes there was the Hive Queen egg and he began to speak to the hive queen and told Ender her story. With that knowledge he was able to write The Hive-Queen.
6. Why does Ender publish the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name?
The reason Ender published a book with the title Speaker for the Dead and not his own name was that since he had found the hive queen egg, she could tell him the bugger stories and he could metaphorically "speak for the dead". Mostly because the buggers are dead. He didn't use his own name because that really wouldn't make much sense and since he is speaking on the side of the buggers.