Enders game questions #12-15

Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. How did Ender provoke Bonzo?  How did Bonzo respond?
Ender provoked bonzo by violating a direct order and saving the day.
2. Who was Stilson? Why was Ender thinking of him?
Stilson was a boy who Ender killed(Ender doesn't know he killed Stilson or Bonzo )and he had the same hollo look that stilson had in his eyes.
3. Why does Ender still expect help from the teachers?
Because he doesn't know how relentlessly they are isolating him and they ney bonzo would be destroyed.
4. Did you know Stilson and Bonzo were dead? Find the specific clues in this chapter about the deaths.
In the beginning General  Pace and Colonel Graff are talking about how Ender can handle it he's done it before.
5. Was Ender justified? Why did they not tell him of the deaths?
he was justified, and they didn't tell him of the deaths because he would most predictably shut out the world.
Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” Explain what this quote means. State an example of this idea.
Valentine is saying this because she is starting to like this person demosthenes and it is hard for her not to think about things in his perspective.
2. Is it a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers? (survival of the fittest)
well, yes and no. Because if you don't need to kill to survive then you shouldn't kill.
3. Discuss the conversation between Ender and Valentine on the raft. What does Ender reveal about himself and his enemies?
That he has to hurt them so bad they can not hurt him again.
4. Discuss Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers. How have Peter and Ender’s roles shifted? How does Valentine feel about each?
Valentine has the thought that ender is taking peters role and vice versa. She has always had that tender spot for ender and not for peter, but things are changing.
5. Discuss Graff’s statements about why the war with the Buggers was inevitable.

Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros? How does Ender figure out the truth about Eros?
Ender feels that Eros’s proportions are off then he finds out that it is a bugger colonie. he feels that there are keeping too much from him and should tell him the truth.
2. Describe how Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had?
Because he is the only one who is smarter than him, so therefore he is he's teacher.
3. Why had Mazer been dishonest with Ender? Do you think Ender could have
handled the truth?
He did not tell him because he would not be able to handle the truth, because he likes buggers without knowing it.
4. Have they pushed the children too far? Was it worth it?
yes they pushed their way to far and it was worth it.
5. Is genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is
annihilated, xenocide, ever justified? Was the xenocide of the Buggers inevitable? Why?
Because they're not human so they don't get human rights.

Chapter 15 – Speaker for the Dead
1. Valentine said, “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given to you by good people, by people who love you.” After what has happened in Ender’s life, what would he think of this statement?
that he would rather like the path Valentine is giving to him rather than Graffs option.
2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. What is Ender’s opinion about the deaths?
That he is a cold blooded killer that should be in jail.
3. Why did Valentine make sure that Ender could never return to earth?
Because she knew that he never wanted to be appraised for murdering an entire spices.
4. What is ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of lives?
Peter is the one trying to save every one noot valentine.
5. What knowledge did Ender gain the enabled him to write The Hive-Queen? Give specific details.
He had played this game in battle school and the buggers made the game on their planet for him to find and he found a empty space and there was a telepathic bugger that could  talk to ender.
6. Why does Ender publish the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name?
Because he was too famous and everyone would call him a bugger lover and knov that he was tricked into killing the buggers.