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.

    2 comments:

    1. I think you got the gist of the story regarding the relationship between Peter and Valentine. However, I do believe that you have to recheck on several details. Such as a third, a "third" is a third child in the family. So yeah. So do you really think that Peter really dislikes his brother or does is that how he naturally is? Why is it, do you think that Ender is a combination of his Older Brother and Sister.

      ReplyDelete
    2. aw poor ender, his brother doesn’t like him. one question i have is hat do ender's parents say about how peter treats ender? do they punish him?
      you should expand on the monitor thing and the government. are their going to be other monitors? Also the same thing that tram said about what third means because it was a little confusing. You should expand on valentine's character because she seems like and interesting aid to ender. Last question is peter violent towards ender, when he tries to get what he wants? If he is he should be punished.

      ReplyDelete