Ender's Game Chapters 1 & 2

What Point of View is Ender's Game told from, and how does it impact the reader's understanding?

• 1st Person - Gives the reader a more up close and personal experience of the story.

• 2nd Person - Allows the reader to experience the story more from a video game, directive, experience.

• 3rd Person Objective - Allows the reader to form their own opinion of the characters and events.

• 3rd Person Omniscient - Allows the reader with more insights as to what is occurring that other characters may not be aware of which creates dramatic irony.

Who is the main character of Ender's Game?

• Ender

• Peter

• Valentine

• Stilson

What are the main conflicts so far in Ender's Game? (Choose all that apply)

• Ender is having a monitor removed that has made him an outcast.

• Ender is having trouble with his academics in school.

• Ender's brother Peter hates him.

• Ender beats up a kid and cries because he is afraid that he is becoming like his brother Peter.

Ender hopes his brother won’t hate him anymore because…(choose all that apply)

• He's been chosen as a candidate for a special government military program.

• It seems as if he has not been chosen as a candidate for a special government military program.

• The government can monitor Ender, so Peter doesn't have to worry about what Ender does or does not do.

• Ender's monitor has been removed, so he is "like everyone else" now.

Characterize Peter and what his utterance of “Ender, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I know how it feels, I’m sorry, I’m your brother, I love you” could mean

• Peter wants to earn Ender's trust for his own gains.

• Peter is sincere. Even though he is threatening towards Enders, he does love him and is sorry.

• Peter may either be sincere because he’s unsure of his own emotions and/or he could be manipulating Ender’s emotions for his own gain

• Peter is being facetious and is using his words to continue to have Ender's feel threatened.

Ender believes that he has become more like Peter after losing the monitor. Which text evidence best supports this theory?

• “Ender knew the unspoken rules of manly warfare, even though he was only six. It was forbidden to strike the opponent who lay helpless on the ground; only an animal would do that."

• "So Ender walked to Stilson’s supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs. Just remember what I do to people who try to hurt me. From then on you’d be wondering when I’d get you, and how bad it would be. He kicked Stilson in the face. Blood from his nose spattered the ground.

• Ender leaned against the wall until his bus came. I’m just Peter. Take my monitor away and I’m must like Peter.