(Begins June 8 - Ends June 15)
Read Ender's Game, Chapters 15, and respond to these questions:
Chapter 15
1) What was really going on during Free Play, and the mind game involving the Giant's Corpse? Who's game was this? Who designed it? Who was a player to it?
2) What was the relationship between Ender and the Bugger Queen? How were they alike? How would you compare/contrast this relationship to the one between Ender and his brother Peter?
3) What is the relationship between winners and losers in a game? What is the nature of the enemy?
“It sounds nice. But I couldn't stand it. I've been offered the presidency of three different universities, on the theory that I'm an educator. They don't believe me when I say that all I ever cared about at the Battle School was the game.” (Card, 306)
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ReplyDelete1) Free Play was a simulation computer program designed by the I.F. to train the Battle School soldiers in different ways. Ender was one of the players. At the end of the book, we learn that after their first destruction at the hands of Mazor Rackham, the buggers used their abilities to follow Enders journey, knowing he was being trained to destroy them, and leave him a message on their homeworld that he would later find. They knew they could not prevent the human attack, or communicate with Ender, so they prepared the best they could for the survival of their species.
2) I’m assuming the question refers to the Queen he destroyed, and not the Larvae queen he saves at the end. Both Ender and the Queen are reluctantly leading their respective fleets, unable to communicate with each other, drawn into conflict for the preservation of their species. I honestly can think of no relevant way to compare/contrast the relationship between the two opposing leaders (Ender and the Queen) and that of Ender and Peter. The primary aspect of the relationship between Peter and Ender was always tormentor/tormented, respectively, where the queen seemed more of an equal of Enders, with similar motives.
3) Ideally, the relationship between winners and losers is one of mutual respect and honor. Earlier in the book, Ender made note of several of the commanders he beat, who shook his hand and respected him for his victories, and likewise, the book ends with Ender having a great deal of respect for the queen and her colony, a species he had previously been taught to loath.
1) The "free play" wasn't a game at all but a training tool designed by the heads of battle school for the kids.
ReplyDelete2)Both Ender and the bugger queen were leaders of armies. Neither of them wanted to kill living thinking creatures. Ender and Peter were also leaders, but while Peter became a leader based on fear and intimidation, Ender became a leader based on his skills.
3)The relationship between winners and losers is symbiotic, one cannot exist without the other.
Ch 15
ReplyDelete1. Free play and the game with the giant were an effective way for the battle school to psychologically asses Ender and the other students who played it. It was designed by the officers at the battle school but it would be difficult to say who’s game it is since the game is pretty much does whatever it thinks is necessary, like when it brought up the picture of Peter. The boys at battle school were the players in the game.
2. As strange as it sounds I would say that Ender loved the bugger queen just before defeating her. Like he said earlier when he was on the lake with Valentine, he gets to know his enemies, knows their weakness, and loves them just before he has to defeat them. It’s a very similar relationship that he has with Peter. Enemies on the surface but Ender only ever wanted Peter to love him as a brother would.
3. In a game all players have a goal to achieve. The winner is the player who does reach that goal and the losers do not. The enemy is any part of the game, whether its another player or the game itself, that is trying to stop you from reaching the goal.
Ch 15
ReplyDelete1) Originally designed by the IF, however, it seems the Buggers may have added to it as a form of communication, or in this case leaving a message for Ender.
2) Both fleet commanders, neither having the intent to commit murder. Peter was the controller, Ender was the controlled, however, Ender in my eyes becomes the victor.
3) Winners score the victory, losers epic fail. The enemy isn't always defined, typically it's the bad guy or cause of grief, however, that doesn't always mean everything we do is considered "good" in all eyes. For example, in the USA we are the good guys, yet to other countries we may be seen as evil.
1Ender saw it in his mind and the buggers read his mind. Thus they made it as a final marker to server as a mermorial sight for their deaths.
ReplyDelete2They didn’t under stand what their actions were doing at the time. The queen with the invation of earth. And ender playing the simulater. But afterwords feeling bad for their actions.
Ender is scard of peter.
3 in a game a lose might walk away with something but a loser gets nothing. An enemy is some one who stands agenst you.
1. Ender learns that the free play was a real life simulator because everything in the free play game, including the Giant really did die. The game was not fake, it was real. It was designed to be a training tool to prepare the students but it was mainly Ender’s game, since he was the player to it. The high ups like Graff designed the game.
ReplyDelete2. Both the Queen and Ender had compassion for other which made it easy for Ender to understand her point of view about the war between their races. Peter and Ender do not think alike and do not share the same morals unlike Ender and the Queen’s relationship. If anything Ender and Peter are somewhat polar opposites of each other.
3. An enemy or opponent doesn’t necessarily have to be evil or be hated to be an antagonist. This is shown within the book because even when Ender defeats the Buggers, he is very sympathetic to their lost. Sometimes there really is a mutual respect between winners and losers. Sometime people who lose a game or something important tend to grow from the experience and then try to better prepare themselves next time if the situation arises again.
Chapter 15
ReplyDelete1) All the situations were real. It was more like the buggers' game; they made it into a form of message to Ender, in which they designed it for him. Ender, once again, was the player. That's why the officials couldn't understand why the End of the World happened - it was the buggers.
2) Ender became the ultimate interpreter for the queen. They both fought to find peace, under very unlikeable circumstances. The relationship is almost exactly the same as Ender's and Peter's because the queen and her sister ended up being misunderstood in some way, and the one sister vowed to use the other until there could be peace. Peter planned to use Ender in the same way, sort of.
3) The relationship between winners and losers is that of respect, definitely. Multidimensional personalities. The nature of the enemy is actually mutual to Ender, in that there is that drive to attain something.