Cameron Nunn
Discussion Questions – ENDER’S GAME
Discussion question 1.
How is Ender moulded into a ‘hero’? By whom? In what ways is this treatment appropriate or inappropriate? Give evidence from the text.
Ender is moulded in various ways through different people. Some give him a negative influence and others a positive influence. However in numerous accounts and different stages of his heroic adventure two different groups specifically influence him and those are his family and the battle school.
His first and main family influence is Peter. Peter a character introduce into the beginning of the book, his brother- is one of many who bully ender because he is a “Third”. The rocky relationship between Ender and his older brother Peter are found in page 2 of the first chapter. “And Peter wont hate me anymore. I’ll come home and show him the monitor’s gone…. The I’ll be a normal kid now…” (page3). These short extracts from the chapter exemplifies that the relationship is distorted, that within it there’s hate due to the fact that Ender was different. He was a third. However Ender still had hope, “He’ll forgive me….” “Not friends… No, Peter was too dangerous. Peter got to angry. Brothers though”. (page 3). The relationship between the brothers wasn’t an ordinary one; it was filled with worries, a smidge of hope but most of all fear. Ender feared Peter, feared who he was, what he did but most of all he feared most of all him, Ender becoming Peter. “... oand cried…. I am just like peter. Take the monitor away and I am just like peter” (page 8)
Peter influences Ender in a positive appropriate way, it limits and restricts Ender into becoming into a monster, like his brother. It put fear into him, allowing him to never want to become like peter, but rather becoming/wanting to be normal.
Another significant family member that had moulded Ender into a ‘hero’ was his adored sister, Valentine. Since the beginning of the book Orson Scott Card has outlined vast
Discussion question 1.
How is Ender moulded into a ‘hero’? By whom? In what ways is this treatment appropriate or inappropriate? Give evidence from the text.
Ender is moulded in various ways through different people. Some give him a negative influence and others a positive influence. However in numerous accounts and different stages of his heroic adventure two different groups specifically influence him and those are his family and the battle school.
His first and main family influence is Peter. Peter a character introduce into the beginning of the book, his brother- is one of many who bully ender because he is a “Third”. The rocky relationship between Ender and his older brother Peter are found in page 2 of the first chapter. “And Peter wont hate me anymore. I’ll come home and show him the monitor’s gone…. The I’ll be a normal kid now…” (page3). These short extracts from the chapter exemplifies that the relationship is distorted, that within it there’s hate due to the fact that Ender was different. He was a third. However Ender still had hope, “He’ll forgive me….” “Not friends… No, Peter was too dangerous. Peter got to angry. Brothers though”. (page 3). The relationship between the brothers wasn’t an ordinary one; it was filled with worries, a smidge of hope but most of all fear. Ender feared Peter, feared who he was, what he did but most of all he feared most of all him, Ender becoming Peter. “... oand cried…. I am just like peter. Take the monitor away and I am just like peter” (page 8)
Peter influences Ender in a positive appropriate way, it limits and restricts Ender into becoming into a monster, like his brother. It put fear into him, allowing him to never want to become like peter, but rather becoming/wanting to be normal.
Another significant family member that had moulded Ender into a ‘hero’ was his adored sister, Valentine. Since the beginning of the book Orson Scott Card has outlined vast