Ch 12-15

Emily

Ch 12-15

Ch 12-Bonzo
1. What Ender did to provoke Bonzo is he kind of teased him about how his father would be proud of him that he beat up a naked wet and alone ten year old with six other guys to help.  That upset Bonzo because it kinda made him look weak.  How Bonzo responded is he got mad then he went  in a stance ready to attack and he went at Ender and he tried to grip his back but Ender got away in the end Ender defeated Bonzo.  
2. Stilson is the guy Ender beat up at the beginning of the book.  Mazar told Ender that he actually killed stilson.  They didn't want him to know because they didn't want him to think of himself as a killer.
3.  Ender still expects help from the teachers because he just assumed that whenever older kids attacked in the battle room that the teachers would just be standing right outside the door.  If things got out of hand then they would step in and help.  Since he was also very valuable to the teachers he assumed they would try to do there best to keep him safe.  
4.  I didn't know that Stilson was dead at first until in the dream Ender had of when Stilson tied him up and he wasn't able to fight back and everything he had done to stilsons life they did to Ender in the dream.  Also Ender never heard about Stilson or saw him after he hurt him.  As for Bonzo I had a feeling he was dead because he graduated right after Ender beat him up or at least thats what they told Ender.  Also at the end of the chapter the ;leader people were saying how there has only been one death in the school and that was a suicide.  
5.  I think Ender was justified because Bonzo and both Stilson started the fight.  They didn't tell him of the deaths because they didn't want him to think of himself as a killer because they didn't want him to not want to fight the buggars.  

Ch 13-Valentine
1.  The quote means that Valentine is afraid to become who she is pretending to be, Demosthenes.  An example is one time I was pretending to be super smart like Kate and I actually became smarter.  
2.  No I don't think it is a good instinct for humans to be killers.  I think it is ok to defend yourself if it is very necessary that might even mean having to take someones life but that should not be a general instinct.  As for Enders case it is probably a good instinct to have if he didn't have that instinct then he probably would not of survived battle school.  
3.  The discussion Ender and Valentine had on the raft was about how he didn't want her to come because he was afraid that he still loved her and how he still fears Peter infact when Valentine brought him up Ender didn't want to talk about him.  Valentine tried to tell Ender that he has started to change.  Valentine also told him of Demosthenes and locke.  Ender told her how he didn't want to fight anymore or try to save the word from the buggers.  He revealed that he has really hurt some people at battle school and he doesn't want to hurt people or be a killer.  
4.  Valentine loves both her brothers she used to be afraid of Peter now she is part of a team with Peter with the whole Demosthenes and Locke thing.  She still knows that Peter is kind of crazy but she also recognized that he has started to change.  As for Ender I think her opinion might of changed a little bit since the day in the raft with Ender and he told how he has really hurt some people at battle school she might think that is a little bit like peter.  She knows both of her brothers are leaders but Peter want to take over the world and Ender was kind of force into being a leader because of his talent at battle school.  “He thinks he’s Alexander the Great.  And why shouldn’t he be?  Why shouldn’t you be too?”(236)
5.  Ender was beginning to question the war between the humans and buggers.  What Graff was explaining to Ender is the reason for the war is the buggers don’t speak they have a different way of communicating with each other and so we never know when they are going to attack or if they are going to attack.  “Ender believe me, there’s a century discussion on this very subject.  Nobody knows the answer.  When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us is destroyed, let’s make damn sure we’re the ones alive at the end”(253).

Ch 14- Ender’s teacher
1.  The thing that disturbs Ender about Eros is the ceiling in the rooms were too low and the tunnels were too narrow also the floors sloped downward almost like they weren’t for humans.  What Ender figures out about Eros is that the buggers were originally there before the humans.  
2.  How Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had is Mazer came and attacked Ender in his room but Ender didn’t fight back instead he let Mazer defeat him.  “I surprised you once Ender Wiggin.  Why didn’t you destroy me immediately afterward?  just because I looked peaceful? you turned your back on me.  Stupid.  You have learned nothing.  You have never had a teach.”(262)
3.  The reason Mazer was dishonest with Ender was because he wanted him to defeat the buggers without holding back.  I don't think Ender could've handled it because he didn't want to be a killer even though that was kind of in his nature.  He battles the fact that he is like Peter and also Valentine so the Valentine part of him wouldn't be able to kill a race of adults and children.  
4.  I think they did push the children pretty far but I don't think it was too far because they needed to be able to take on a lot of buggers.  It was definitely worth it because they won!
5.  The only justification of wiping out an entire race is the will to survive or the fear of being killed off they had to do that because they wanted to make sure if anyone was going to die it wouldn't be the humans it would be the buggers.  


Ch 15-Speaker for the dead
1.  I think Ender could definitely  relate to it because Graff and Mazer and all the other teachers took advantage of him and he never really controlled his own life.  
2.  After he heard the evidence of the deaths he didn’t really care about his reputation in fact he watched the videos over and over again he was amused by them all the murders weighed heavily on him but it was weird how he watched the videos over and over again.
3.  Valentine made sure Ender never returned to earth because she knew Ender would be put under Peters control because he is very powerful right now and she didn't want that to happen and Ender didn't want that to happen either.  
4.  What was ironic about Valentine’s statement is Ender has always been the kind one when they were little but he did have a little bit of Peter in him but then Ender turns out to be the one who murdered two people and kill a race.  Then Peter was always evil and Valentine and Ender feared him then he turns out to be the one who’s saving millions of lives.  
5.  The knowledge Ender gained that made him able to write the Hive-Queen is when he went to their planet it looked exactly like the Giants corpse  and had the same mirror Ender smashed.  When he pulled back the mirror he also saw the hive queens silk cocoon.  The buggers also build a place for Ender with a slide, swings and monkey bars.  Ender somehow was able to know what the queen knew and  he didn’t.  When the buggers first attacked the humans they didn't realize they were actual life forms so it was an accident and they were never going to attack again so Ender killed all those buggers for no reason.  
6. The reason  why Ender didn’t  use his name is because specker of the dead seemed more appropriate because he was telling people what the hive queen told him and he didn't want to take any of the credit he just simply wanted to tell their story and apologize for everything he did to them.