Ender's Game Questions Chapters 6-8

Chapter 6

1) The Giants Game purpose is to test the kids strategy skills. It puts there characters in difficult situations where they need to think about how to overcome the challenge and think outside the box. He should be satisfied that he got past the giant and the wolves but it was a little gruesome climbing through its eye. I think Ender is not a murderer, is he capable of it? Yes. But will he do it, I don't think he'd be able to live with himself knowing he killed someone in cold blood.

Chapter 7

1) Alia said "Salaam".This exchange is important because Ender knows he has a friend and that he won't be alone. Alia showed a deeper side to him by saying that and kissing his cheek. It also showed that Alia trusts Ender because what he did was not allowed. It showed something about his religion and religion is supposed to be illegal.

2) The "just living" mentioned was Graff talking to Anderson about Ender not having a normal life. He is just a boy and he has never had the experience to just live and not to be put under pressure or not to be scared. He has always been watched and probably always will be. Ender wants to be liked at Battle School and he wants to be with his sister Valentine again. He want to be successful and to be the best he can be. But he does not want to be a murderer or to be like his brother Peter. If I was Ender I would feel sad that I couldn't be with the one person I loved. I would also wonder what it would be like to be a regular kid.

3)Pertra helped Ender by being his friend and helping him with his battle moves. She taught him how to keep his arm steady while shooting and they started spending a lot of time together.  Pertra showed Ender that not everyone at Battle School despised him and that not everyone was mean. She showed this by saying that they should be friends(79). This his a hinderance to Ender because Ender wants to fit in at Battle School and to be liked. But Perta isn't the most popular of people and is actually disliked. Yet Ender still wants to have a friendship with her.

4)Ender learns different things from Bonzo. One thing he learns is that Bonzo acts as if he knows what he's doing all the time so he earns respect from his soldiers. Ender however can see that his tactics don't always work. He also learns how to keep an army together from him. But Bonzo has his flaws. Ender sees that he pushes around the soldiers and abuses them so they know that he is in charge. He doesn't give Ender a chance to fight in the battles. He just makes him stay still and not shoot. Ender knows that he could help improve the army but he does as Bonzo says.

Chapter 8 

1)" Ender Wiggn is ten times smarter and stronger than I am" I think this quote means that Graff thinks Ender is stronger than him emotionally and physically. He can see that even as a 6 year old he can hide his emotions remarkably well. He left his family and everybody he knows to go to a school where he will be pushed to extremes. He can also see that Ender is incredibly smart and thinks of ways to get out of situations that nobody else would think of.

2) I think the significance to the quote, "So teach me" "So learn" is that Enders toon leader, Dink is basically telling him that he has to learn by watching because nobody will go out of their way to help. He is the underdog in the situation but in order to succeed he has to go above and beyond in order to be at the same level as everyone else.

3) His response to an attack is significant because no other army had ever seen anything like it. Nobody was expecting what Ender did because it was unique and he thought outside the box. It definitely proved to help. Ender doesn't think like everybody else he sees things and comes up with solutions that aren't necessarily, "normal". He thought up something on his own. He doesn't think of the battle room as up and down or left and right like most do because he knows that since there's no gravity everything changes. But most don't think like him so it limits what they can do.

4)I think the scene with the snake and Peter's reflection his Enders own thoughts. He grew up with Peter and he knew he didn't want to be like him, a cold blooded murderer. I think that when he saw himself as Peter he was sad and frightened that he found similarities between himself and his brother.

5) The game knows because it is created by the adults of the Battle School and the adults know that Ender has potential to be a great asset to them so they want to through things at him that make him think outside the box. They knew that Ender and Peter had problems and once he beat the game they wanted to make it difficult and see how he would deal with his problem.

6)The importance of the last paragraph is that Ender is realizing he doesn't like what he is becoming. He realizes that he is just a tool and is being used how they want him to be used. He's getting more and more depressed with what he is becoming and he can't help it. He feels as if he is a murderer like Peter if not better than him. He's losing the will to live as he said,"What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad." He doesn't care that he died he's happy that he was killed. Ender is falling into the deep dark state of depression.