Chapter 1 Third
Chapter 2 Peter
Chapter 3 Graff
Chapter 4 Launch
Chapter 5 Games
Chapter 6 The Giant’s Drink
Chapter 7 Salamander
Chapter 8 - Rat
Chapter 9 - Locke and Demosthenes
Chapter 10 - Dragon
Chapter 11 - Veni Vidi Vici
Chapter 12 - Bonzo
Chapter 13 - Valentine
Chapter 14 - Ender’s Teacher
Chapter 15 - Speaker for the Dead
Chapter 1 Third
- (pg1) Strange that the first chapter is called ‘Third’
- What can you tell about the story through the use of two different fonts?
- What person is the narrative told in?
- We learn about a ‘special’ family.
- What is the goal of the speakers at the start of the book?
- What are they watching and what do they decide about their subject? What type of irony is used by the audience having more information than the main character?
- What is interesting about the surname of the title character? What does it say about his role in the story?
- What perspective is the narration for the other section of the opening chapter (not the starting bit)?
- “Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.” (2) What is a possible central theme of the book?
- What does the title ‘Monitor’ represent to the other boys?
- (5) What connotations does Ender being a ‘third’ have ?
- What does Ender know about his intelligence in regards to the other boys?
- (7) What does Ender do to the bullies?
- cThe narrator is sympathetic to Ender: ‘This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he would not be the unhappiest at the end.’
- (8) While Ender seems emotionally stable on the exterior how would you describe his emotional state on the inside?
- How has the perspective of the narration changed in this statement: ‘I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away; and I am just like Peter.’ What does this imply about Peter?
Chapter 2 Peter
- (9) Who are speaking at the beginning of the chapter again?
- From what these voices say what can we speculate the ‘monitor’ allowed these people to do with Ender?
- How do the soldiers react to Ender attacking the bully?
- What effect do the soldiers admit that they had on Ender’s brother Peter?
- What voice do we switch into when the soldiers section of the text is through?
- (10) What is Ender’s sister’s name and what is implied by her name?
- What are the two sides of Peter?
- (11) What do we learn about the greater world from the description of the game that Peter forces Ender to play called Buggers vs. Astronauts?
- (13) What informatioin does Valentine have that she uses to keep Peter under control?
- (15) Who tells the Wiggins to have 3 children? What does this tell us about the power of the government?
- What does Ender do at the end of the chapter? What emotional state is he in? Why?
Chapter 3 Graff
- (19) What does Ender get chosen for in the end? Why does he get picked?
- What reservations does Ender have?
- (22) What does the soldier say about religion and large families? So is this a religious or secular society? Why?
- What does ‘Third’ mean? Why is this such a big deal?
- (22) What do we learn about the ‘society’ what countries on earth make it up?
- What big decision does Ender have to make? What are the reasons against it/for it? What does he decide? Why? What would you decide?
Chapter 4 Launch
- (27) How do the updates from the soldiers at the start of the chapter represent dramatic irony?
- (28) How do we know that this society is capitalistic?
- (29) Is there censorship? If so, how do you know?
- (31) What does Ender do while Graff is speaking to the boys? How does he react to Ender? Why does he react this way?
- (35) How does Graff view humans?
- (36) What does Graff say about ‘doing bad things’ as soldiers?
- What role has Ender been given for the survival of the human species?
Chapter 5 Games
- Who is the room leader? (39)
- What role does Dap play to the boys?
- (44) Who is Mick and what advice does he give Ender?
- (45) What does Ender miss his first night?
- (48) What happens when Ender goes to the games room and plays an older boy for the first time?
- (49) Who is Bernard? How is his relationship with Ender?
Chapter 6 The Giant’s Drink
- What is happening to Ender’s launch group? And what role is Ender playing?
- Ender gives the special suit a trial. It makes him able to do things that he couldn’t normally do.
- How do Bernard and Alai move in the suits?
- Ender makes a connection with Alai.
- What role is Alai voted in to? What role does he now play for the group?
- Describe the sequence of events when Ender plays the game. What is revealed to Ender and about his personality at the conclusion of the game?
Chapter 7 Salamander
- What is a growing concern one of the soldiers has for Ender?
- What news does Ender recieve? What makes it so unique?
- How does the game represent an escape? What would Ender be escaping to/from?
- (77) What mistake does Ender make immediately upon joining Salamander Army?
- (78) How have Salamander Army been going in the games recently?
- What does the leader of Salamander have planned for Ender?
- (83) Who does Ender decide is actually the enemy? Why does he feel that they are the enemy? Does this relate to any initial themes from the start of the book?
- (84-85) How would you rate Ender’s ability in the battle games? How does he rate himself compared to the other members of Salamander Army?
- (86) Who does Ender go to practice with?
- (88) In his conversation with Bonzo, Ender makes an interesting assessment regarding different types of anger. What does he say? What you you think he means by what he says?
- What order does Bonzo give Ender that Ender challenges? What is the result of this challenge? What does Ender do for Bonzo that shows he understands leadership?
- (92) What happens to Ender in the battle against Condor that gets him recognition?
- (96) What does Ender do in the battle against Leopard Army that he isn’t supposed to do?
Chapter 8 - Rat
- What does Colonel Graff want Major Anderson to do? Why?
- What is Major Anderson’s response to this request?
- What is the important feature of Rose de Nose? Why is this so important?
- Why did Rose de Nose take on Ender into Rat Army?
- What are the ‘three’ rules?
- (102) What does Dink tell Ender regarding the commanders power over him?
- (103) Describe Dink’s leadership style and ability?
- (106) How does Rose use Ender in his first battle as a member of Rat Army? Was it effective?
- (109) Why doesn’t Dink want to become a commander?
- (109) Why doesn’t Dink think that they are children?
- (111) What does Dink think of the war with the Buggers? Why?
- (112) What did the doubt that arose after speaking with Dink do to the way Ender listens?
- Why don’t most of the launchies want to practice with Ender any more?
- What happens when Ender is practicing with the launchies?
- (119-20) What does Ender come to terms with about himself at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 9 - Locke and Demosthenes
- What are the officers worried about in regards to Ender playing the mind game on the computer?
- (123) What does it mean if the computer puts something in the mind game?
- What is Valentine’s relationship with Ender?
- Where have the family moved? Why?
- What does Valentine know about Peter?
- (126-7)What does Peter tell Valentine regarding an impending war? What does he believe is going to happen?
- (128) What power does Val have and how does she use this power?
- Research Project: Pericles, Demosthenes, Ben Franklin, John Locke, Bismark, Lenin
- What is Peter’s plan and why does she need Val’s help?
- (133) What does Peter want to ‘save the world from’?
- What names do Peter and Val take on ‘the nets’?
- What do Peter and Val do on ‘the nets’? What are they trying to achieve?
- How do we know that Val and Peter are becoming successful?
- (140) How are things going for Ender? How does he feel about his life at this point?
- What is bothering Ender in regards to his interactions with the other soldiers?
- Why does Colonel Graff visit Valentine?
- What does Colonel Graff want Valentine to do for Peter?
- (152) What is it that Ender hates so much?
- (154) What does Val write as Demosthenes after she receives the letter from the military?
Chapter 10 - Dragon
- What army is Ender taking over? What is interesting about this particular army?
- What is the quality of the soldiers in Ender’s army?
- Who is the ‘star student’ in Ender’s army? What does he want from Ender?
- What is it that Alai left behind with Ender?
- What has resulted of Ender and Alai’s friendship now that Ender is a commander?
Chapter 11 - Veni Vidi Vici
- What are Colonel Graff and Major Anderson arguing about at the beginning of the chapter?
- (177) How is Ender’s army shaping up? What is unique about the formations they will use?
- How does Dragon Army go against Rabbit Army?
- (186) What does Ender say about winning right from the beginning? What happens?
- How does Carn Carby treat Ender after his defeat?
- How does Dragon Army go against Pheonix Army? What does Ender wish for he and Petra?
- What is Ender’s record after seven days and seven battles? How do the other commanders treat him as a result?
- What does Ender begin to study when he feels that there is no more for him to learn?
- (191) What does Ender notice about Mazer Rackham in the videos he watches?
- What is the next challenge Ender’s army is thrown into? How is it unfair?
- How does Ender’s army win? What do they do to win?
- What does Ender talk to Bean about? What does Ender confide in Bean? What does he want Bean to do?
Chapter 12 - Bonzo
- Who has come to see Colonel Graff? Why?
- (203-4) What does Colonel Graff want Ender to understand?
- What is bean working with in the battleroom?
- How does Bonzo eventually get Ender alone?
- Who wins the fight between Ender and Bonzo? How does he win?
- (215) How are the odds stacked against Dragon Army in their next battle?
- (225) What orders does Ender receive?
- What happened to Bonzo? Does Ender know? What happened to Stilson?
Chapter 13 - Valentine
- (230) What do we learn about Valentine and Peter?
- What is happening with popularity for Demosthenes and Locke? Who is more poular?
- (233) What does Valentine start to realize about her own views after putting on this desguise of Demosthenes for so long?
- (234) Who is Valentine going to see? Is anyone else going to see this person? Why/why not?
- (240) What does Ender realize about his view of himself? What does he want to know more about? Who does he want to know?
- (243-4) What is Ender’s ‘unreasoning’ keeping him from pushing himself? What does he want from Peter?
- (246) What does Graff tell Ender that he is fighting to protect?
- What is Graff doing with Ender?
- (252) What does Graff tell Ender about the military’s current mission against the buggers? What are they doing? Where are they vunerable as a result?
- (255) What does Ender suggest could be the real problem between the Buggers and the humans?
Chapter 14 - Ender’s Teacher
- What is it about Eros that disturbs Ender?
- (260-1) What aspects of Command School most engage Ender?
- (262-6) Who shows up in Enders room? What is his role in regards to Ender?
- (267) What does Ender find in Mazer?
- (269-71) What is Mazer’s theory as to how he defeated the Buggers?
- (273) What are some of the advantages for humans that Mazer highlights?
- (274) What weapon do the humans have and how does it work?
- (276) Who joins Ender in his training?
- (278-9) What role is Mazer now going to play in Ender’s training?
- How does Ender and his squadron leader react to the increased pressure put on them by Mazer?
- (292) What is Ender the first student to make it to?
- (298-9) What does Ender learn about his final battle and all the other battles he fought thinking that Mazer was controlling the enemy?
- (300) How does Ender feel about his victory? What do Mazer and Graff say makes him such a great commander?
- What is happening on Earth after the defeat of the Buggers?
- What was the result of the war between the humans?
- What do Bean, Alai, Dink, and Ender all decide at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 15 - Speaker for the Dead
- What has Graff just been through?
- What have Demosthenes and Locke been arguing in regards to Ender’s return to Earth?
- (313) What did Peter accomplish through his control of Demosthenes and Locke?
- What does Valentine want Ender to do? How is she protecting him from Peter?
- What role is Ender to take in the new colony?
- When scouting out land for the next colony what does Ender discover?
- What does Ender find behind the mirror?
- What ‘letter’ does Ender write? What does he say in it? Who does he sign it as?
- What do the Human’s form out of the book the Ender writes?
- What is Ender’s reason for leaving the colony?
- What roles do Ender and Valentine play in their travels?
- What does Ender bring with him on his trips? What is he looking for?