Friday, April 29, 2011

PETER Y U NO GOOD?!

In the story “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card, a young by name Ender does to battle school and becomes the hero everyone excepted him to be. Ender become one of the most greatest leader of all time and helped save the world. But he really missed his family. That is who he had in mind most of the time he was at school. Ender had an older brother and sister, Peter and Valentine. All of them are much alike but very different.

Peter was the older brother. He always wanted to work for the government to get power over everyone. He believe he was going to grow up to be the best soldier there ever was, but that ended up to be Ender. So, Peter was always jealous and furious with Ender. When Ender left to battle school, Peter got worse. The family moved to North Carolina when Ender left and Peter learned how to use his charm to get want he wants from grown up. Also he would torture kids the way he did with Ender. In addition, he got close to Valentine and they started to bound and get closer. All Peter ever want is to have complete control of the government and what is happening in space.

Valentine. She was the opposite of Peter. She knew what Peter was capable of. She knew the power Peter had on people and she was not scared of him but she hate him. Valentine tried every way to get Ender away from Peter. Valentine has brains, she was very smart and always have kept an eye on Ender. She was the closest to Ender and Valentine was the only person Ender really cared about. She hated the bound she grew with Peter. She hated Peter but she worked with him in a blog writing about the government. She hated what she had become into. She was more like Peter than she thought.

Valentine and Peter were working together on a blog. They hid their identities so no one will know who they are. Later on, as they kept on writing they started to get a lot of power from their blogs. Peter liked the power he was getting and he enjoyed what people were saying about him. He was finally able to work with the government, he had manipulated them like he did with everyone else that he grew up with. On the other hand, Valentine did not like it at all but she worked with Peter. But when Peter tried to get closer to Ender and to get him to come back on Ender. Valentine drew the line. Valentine threaten to reveal their identities and tell everything that they have in plan. Valentine just turned into Peter in a bit when she did that because she is using what he did to others but now against him but she had a good reason to. She had always wanted to protect Ender no matter what.  

Ender grew up thinking that he was like Peter and he was scared of himself for it. Peter was known to be a killer. Ender did not have the heart to kill even though he did, he always found a way to make it up. Ender had feelings, he cared for others. While Peter did not care anyone but himself. He does things for him and only him and when he does not getting what he wants, he torture the others around him until he got what he want. They were almost the complete opposite but they were powerful. Ender had rage him and he was smart on the battle field unlike Peter. Ender did not want power, Ender just wanted to keep people safe while Peter wanted full demand on power.

While Valentine cared only for Ender. Every since the beginning of the book, Valentine had always protected Ender. Peter hated that. Valentine was able to win Ender over with her care. Ender and Valentine were the same, they are both smart. They knew what would happen and used their common sense. That is what they had over Peter. Valentine eventually protected Ender again by getting him to stay on other planet. So Peter would be the only Wiggin on Earth while Valentine and Ender leave and live without Peter.

Peter is one of those characters where, he will end up getting what he want even if that is losing everything he has. He wants power and he will get it. Peter wants Ender gone because Peter knows that Ender is one of the only people that can stop him if he gets power. But Peter does secretly always loved Ender but jealous and mad that Ender have chosen Valentine over him. It has to be Peter at all times and Ender needs to be gone to get that to happen.

The characters in Ender’s Game are complete opposite of each other but they need each other to survive. They are fighting against each other. The older siblings are fighting to get Ender attention, one is protecting him and the other is trying to hurt him. Ender is the middle of everything even though Peter and Valentine got along they had different things in mind of what they want to do with it. Valentine knew what Peter wanted to do but Peter never knew what Valentine wanted to do. They are complete opposite of each other but at times go, Valentine starts to learn from Peter and she turned into him for a bit and used his manipulation skills against him.

Ender is like Peter and Valentine build into one but more of Valentine. Ender is like the good Peter. He is a strong soldier that can control his anger and he has brains.  Ender is the strongest soldier in battle and he will never be like Peter.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ender, Y U HAVE UR OWN GAME?!

In the story, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender was just put into Battle School and just left his family behind to train to fight in an army. The leaders in Battle School have very high expectation for Ender, mostly Graff because they believe Ender will grow up to be one of the best. They see that he might be one of the greatest leader in the world and they want to use im in their army. Ender does not know that this is happening, he believes that he is just like here and he is the same as any other kids. Later on in the story, Graff calls Ender out and make everyone believe that Ender is the best student to isolate him from everyone. But that plan back fired on Graff because Ender started to make friends. Also, he started to learn more things in combat and made groups with the Launchies. Ender is starting to get stronger and smart every day.
Also, Ender enjoys computers and programming, so he stays on his computer most the time trying to fix what he can and play a game that he is addicted to. He defeated the unbeatable game and won games with the old kids. Ender was starting to make a name for himself at the school and everyone see him different. Later, he has been promoted to a new army but he is not accepted by everyone. His commander hated the fact that he ad Ender in his army and in Ender’s mind what he wanted to do was to prove him wrong. Ender hates the fact that no way had faith and him but he understood why he was treated that way.
As the story goes on, Ender starts to get smarter and stronger. Ender likes to prove people wrong or try to out smart the people who is trying to control him. He will obey what you will tell him but eventually Ender will get around it. Also, Ender a leader to his launchies, as he starts to learn they do too. The story shows how Ender is growing and he might be one of the best leaders but he still has alot of learning.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

ENDER, Y U HAVE MONITOR?!

Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.

In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Caro talks about a young man name Andrew but he is known as Ender how he is struggling to fit into his family and life. Ender also called a “Third” because he had a monitor in him for more than 3 years and said that he was known to do great things in his life. Ender has two siblings name Peter and Valentine, they both had their monitors taken out at a young age. The monitor was a way the government was able to listen to or recruited children who they believe will be the best and can work in the government or in space. Peter has always wanted to do that and is jealous of Ender because might have a chance of working for the government, Peter was a very aggressive and out of control child. While Valentine was more lovable and understanding, she was the complete opposite of Peter, she was smart and would keep Ender safe from Peter. Ender was a child that wanted to get everyone approval and wanted to be normal like everyone else, for a 6 year old he knew a lot of his age and Peter was jealous. The relationship between them was that, Peter dislike Ender and tried to hurt him anyway he can but Ender always tried to get his acceptance,
“And Peter won’t hate me anymore. I’ll come home and show him that the monitor’s gone,
and he’ll see that I didn’t make it either. That I’ll just be normal kid now, like him”(2).
The relationship between Ender and Peter is that one hates the other because of what they have and one just wants his brother acceptance and not be bullied by him. Ender thought that if he did not have the monitor anymore that Peter would like him because Peter hated him because he had the monitor. Peter was the kid that if he did not get want he wanted then no one around him can get it either and if they did then they will get tortured by him and that is what he is doing to Ender. Ender just wants a brother to look up and hang out with but he does not have it and believes that it is all his fault. tween two different characters.