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Ender's Game
The Ender's Game quote you are referring to is spoken by Ender's somewhat frightening older brother, Peter. He says specifically, Everyone thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because...
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Ender's Game
The answer to this question can be found in chapter 8, which is titled "Rat." The chapter begins with Graff and Anderson arguing about whether or not to manipulate the battleroom to present...
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Ender's Game
Bean is a friend of Ender Wiggins in Battle School. Bean is a diminutive and younger child with incredible intelligence, later revealed (in a companion book from the Shadow series of novels) to be...
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Ender's Game
Colonel Graff isolates Ender in a variety of ways throughout the novel. He does this intentionally in order to more quickly shape Ender into the commander that Graff believes Ender can one day...
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Ender's Game
While Peter and Valentine work together to manipulate global politics, they are very different characters, serving as foils for each other and for Ender. While Peter is defined by his abusive and...
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Ender's Game
In the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin is the young boy chosen to go to Battle School to find out if he can be the commander of the army to defeat the Buggers. Chapters 6-12...
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Ender's Game
The first major event in Ender's Game is Ender's decision to go to Battle School. He is a virtual pariah at home, bullied by other boys, and in danger from his sadistic older brother. He leaves his...
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Ender's Game
Ender's intelligence is slowly revealed from the very beginning of his experience at battle school. It starts in his room, when he figures out how to use his desk almost immediately and with very...
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Ender's Game
The first encounter between Ender and Mazer Rackham is a strange one because it is, essentially, a violent one. Mazer met Ender when the boy was sent to the Command School on Eros, and Mazer was...
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Ender's Game
I think it is pretty clear from the very beginning of the story that Ender, through the course of this excellent scientific fiction novel, experiences any number of conflicts that seriously...
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Ender's Game
Ender, who was the second boy to be chosen from his family, is aware that his big brother Peter was kicked out of the program because he was too violent. Even at the beginning of the book, when...
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Ender's Game
This quote comes from Chapter 13, and refers directly to Valentine. At this point in the story, she and Peter have gained such a large following on the "nets" as Locke and Demosthenes, that even...
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Ender's Game
There are actually three “worlds” in this novel: first, the domestic “dystopia” in which family size is limited, social pressure is applied to “Thirds”, family members are alienated...
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Ender's Game
In the beginning of the novel, Ender is just a “third”—the socially undesirable third child in the extreme intelligent Wiggins family. He is the victim of his older brother’s violence, and...
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Ender's Game
In chapter 5 of the Orson Scott Card novel Ender’s Game the most notable games being played are the psychological games. Graff and an anonymous voice discuss the mind games they’ll be playing...
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Ender's Game
The primary purpose of the fight scene between Ender and his older brother Peter in chapter two, is to reveal the character of Peter, and to show the stark contrast between his character and...
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Ender's Game
Peter's apology to Ender after tormenting him (Peter had been rejected by the government, in large part because of this cruel streak in him), and in his jealousy makes Ender and his sister...
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Ender's Game
Ender does begin to despise his superiors but with good reason; the men in charge, like Colonel Graff and Major Anderson, have completely manipulated him and violated his trust repeatedly. While...
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Ender's Game
This quote comes when Ender is speaking to Valentine, his sister, about his experiences in Battle School. Ender has come to undersand himself better, and knows that he is capable of extraordinary...
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Ender's Game
Exact birth dates go unmentioned in the story and it is noted that nothing special is done for the kids in Battle School when they officially turn a year older. All we know is that Ender is 6 years...
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Ender's Game
There are a few reasons why it may seem surprising to have racial and ethnic stereotypes in Ender's Battle School, especially in a futuristic setting. First, stereotypical behavior is limited...
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Ender's Game
Ironically, the significant quote at the beginning of the book comes from the unnamed government official: “We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.” This establishes the...
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Ender's Game
The answer to your question can be found in chapter 9 ("Locke and Demosthenes") of Ender's Game. During chapter 9, Valentine and Peter vow to be like Demosthenes and Locke respectively. Peter...
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Ender's Game
The answer to this question comes at the beginning of chapter 13. In the behind-the-scenes dialogue, the two adults are surprised and relieved to find out that these two identities, powerhouses on...
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Ender's Game
Ender finds this door as he plays his private game in Chapter 7. As he enters, he finds himself in a tower that has no visible means of escape. Interestingly, at this point the game is finished as...
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Ender's Game
In Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, a young Ender is made commander of the Dragon Army, a small group of fellow military students. Ender's army is forced to battle the Rabbit Army—a group...
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Ender's Game
In Ender's Game, Valentine both fears and loves Peter. She cannot help but recall to her memories of the skinned squirrel and fears Peter's sadistic, violent nature rises to the surface with his...
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Ender's Game
The relationship between these two siblings (Valentine is older) is expressed in the book in three ways: In the prelude to Ender’s training, we see that they are close, and both are victims of...
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Ender's Game
In this chapter, Ender and his crew are given a series of very difficult, complicated, unfair battles to fight. There is little respite; it is battle after battle after battle. Ender and his team...
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Ender's Game
Valentine is upset when her father starts reading and agreeing with Demosthenes because Valentine "didn't like some of the positions Peter made Demosthenes take" (136). Demosthenes is described as...
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Ender's Game
The introductory dialogue in each chapter serves as a change in perspective and an added behind-the-scenes insight into Ender's training. Though the story itself is not a first person narrative, it...
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Ender's Game
The science fiction story has a family subplot built into it, concerning the siblings of Ender, brother Peter and sister Valentine. While there are very few realistic details about their family...
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Ender's Game
A lot of futuristic technology shows up in Ender's Game. Four specific examples are seen in the laptop-like computers the students use, the "Giant" mind game, the fight simulators, and...
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Ender's Game
ALIENATION. Ender is deliberately segregated from humans and possible friendships from an early age. By doing so, he learns to become self-sufficient and reliant on no one but himself. GOOD VS....
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Ender's Game
This quote is particularly true of the way in which the children in this novel are used to help combat the threat from the buggers. When you think about what is done to children like Ender, and how...
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Ender's Game
What Ender learns from Bonzo is based on Bonzo's mistakes, rather than his strengths. Ender primarily learns what not to do from Bonzo. Here are a couple of specifics: Operate under cool anger,...
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Ender's Game
This is a very broad question, and clearly in any novel or play there are going to be plenty of events that are very important to the overall plot. However, for me, one vital element of this...
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Ender's Game
As the end of Chapter Nine explores, the scene where Ender kills the snake and then sees Peter's bloody reflection in the mirror that he gazes into suggests strongly that Ender has the potential to...
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Ender's Game
Ender is a classic dynamic character in that he changes very much from the beginning of the story to the end. Life in Battle School and Command School hardens him. At the beginning of the story he...
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Ender's Game
In the novel, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender is initially nervous or scared to be assigned to an army as a brand new "launchie", but he begins to get excited about the opportunity. As he...
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Ender's Game
Ironically, the speaker at the beginning of the chapter doesn't make a very strong case for accepting Ender in the program. He simply says, "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his...
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Ender's Game
You might want to think about the various historical allusions that the text gives us, especially in Chapter Nine, which narrates how Locke and Demosthenes were created. Consider how Peter tries to...
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Ender's Game
The battle room is essentially a bare space with few variations, and with two doors where the teams begin the battles. Since the exercises are meant to prepare the combatants for battle in space,...
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Ender's Game
The main setting of Ender's Game is the Battle School, where gifted children are challenged and prepared to lead armies against the alien Buggers. This setting is not a warm and friendly school,...
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Ender's Game
As in any Bildungsroman, the main character, Ender Wiggin, matures in his understanding of the way his society works. His virtual imprisonment inside the training facility gives him a view of the...
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Ender's Game
In order to fully challenge Ender, Graph and Anderson begin changing some of the most traditional expectations in the game as soon as Ender gets his own army. First, "Dragon Army" is one that...
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Ender's Game
Graff is Ender's friend, even though he may appear to be undermining him and going behind his back in many things. Graff keeps secrets from Ender, plots to challenge him, talks about him behind his...
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Ender's Game
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 11, which records the battle that Dragon Army fought against Rabbit Army and the defeat that Rabbit Army suffered. When Ender and his troops go...
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Ender's Game
Graff approaches Valentine in chapter 9 because Ender has come to place in his training, emotionally speaking, where he cannot (or refuses to) move forward. After feeling completely ignored by...
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Ender's Game
Agh! I can't tell you that! I tried, but it was just too hard to give it away just like that, poof, causing you to miss out on reading one of the coolest endings of any book I've read! So, if...
