I feel conflicted about whether Ender is a hero. I mean, to the other humans he is, but what's that matter when you think you murdered an entire race without knowing? People say its not what others think, but what YOU think.
And also, at the end, we find out that the 'buggers' weren't actually going to come back and kill them, so in the end all that effort, all the pain, and the blood, sweat, and tears that Ender gave up were all, in effect, completely pointless? His and countless other children's lives, futures, were permentally altered and possibly destroyed, their minds also, all for NOTHING?
I know that the humans had no idea that the 'buggers' were never going to attack again, but all the pointless bloodshed seems so....so POINTLESS in the end, and now makes me think no, Ender is no hero in the end. In the end he is just a little boy whose life was manipulated with because some adults didn't know diddly-squat about their enemies. And yes, I know, it's not the humans fault, really, but such wasted life is sad. Book or not.
Ender is not a hero, because really he never saved any lives, but destroyed a whole race, and killed two other boys. Even if all the killing was self-defence. The boys deserved to get the poo beat out of them, and I know Ender didn't mean to kill them, so I don't blame him.
I don't think Ender saved anyone. He mostly just ruined lives. And yet everyone pretends it's all happy at the end. Showing the ignorance of the human race..
I think everyone pretends it a happy ending not because he saved anyone but every one just likes the book. Well, most do. In the end yes, Ender didn't seems to really save anyone but he did go through a lot.
I don't think he had a choice- I mean, even if he knew the whole time, he would eventually become a commander and have to make the decisions he did. He saved what he could, and he lost a lot, and yes, screwed some people up along the way, but he was only human. And he was what, 12 years old? He saved what was important to him- Valentine. There's heroism in that. Not really enough to make a statue of, but meeting personal hopes is commendable, especially in his situation. And he kept searching and found peace for the buggers- something that others wouldn't have done in his place. He wasn't perfect, but the best things never are.
Abbie is right. Ender had no choice of doing what he did in Battle School. He did what he did even thought he did not mean it. All he ever wanted was to get out of being like his brother, but he ended up being worse than his brother, even if he did nothing. He is a hero in a way, as Abbie said, and it might not have been so obvious because he killed two people but he is a hero in some way.
Ender saved the world because if he hadn't have saved the world from the buggers then the buggers would have eventualy ended the human kind world for ever.
I've been reading back through the book, but I can't find if they explain why Andrew has the nickname Ender? I know that Val gave him that nickname, but why? Because he is a Third?
I think Valentine give him the name at first because she probably couldn't pronounce "Andrew" when she was little. However, the name is also kind of a pun. Through out the book when Graff or Mazer talked about how Ender was their last hope, I kept thinking Ender was the "End Game" of the bugger war. See what Orson did there? I don't know though, that's just how I saw it.
I'm curious as to the next three books in the series. Does anyone know the plot or who they focus on? I'm definitely going to read them, I just was wondering if anybody had any intel on them prior.
For the most they are about humans and alien conflict of sorts, I believe. The next has Ender in it, but after that I don't recall him being a character in them. He could, I suppose, but I don't recall. That applies to the Ender series. There are books about Bean, also, though.
The book ends this way because it helps tell of the next book. It gives you questions that can't be answered unless you read the next book. It makes you think about the bugger queen and what will happen. It makes you think about how the buggers made the fantasy world just as the computer had shown Ender.
I agree with you, Alex, about how the book ends. It makes you wonder what happens to Ender and Val. It also makes you wonder what happens to the bugger queen. These things you cant find out until read the next book. I think the buggers had been in touch with Ender's mind for awhile to have make the fantasy world for him. When Ender had the dream about the buggers vivisecting his mind, his memories, I don't think it was just a dream I think the buggers were actually vivisecting his memories and that's how they knew about the fantasy world and how they figured out how to make it. The queen bugger being able to talk to Ender helps support my theory about the buggers being in his mind.
This is true, if it weren't for the ending, there wouldn't be a next book, well of course that's us saying it AFTER the sequel has already been released.
This is the second time I read this book, and to be honest,I disliked it just as much as I did the first time. I can see why it's a sophomore curriculum book, there's literary devices all up in there! But as far as plot, I feel like it was an epic fail. Just saying.. You can't go from pain and anguish to happy little bunnies that fast, it just loses the gravity of the whole book.. No pun intended.
To add on, I don't think Ender is a hero. Heroic people aren't created. It's who they are. Yes Ender was smart but they made him a commander through years of manipulation. He would only be a hero if he just randomly went and saved the earth, and all the buggers too. Then created peace for everyone. All on a whim.
I agree that Ender is not a hero. He is NO WAY heroic from my eyes. But I think the ending was exactly what he was shooting for. Leaving all these questions. It did catch the attention of some of us and make us want to keep reading. THAT'S why this Is setting us up for the next books and the requirement to read this book isn't the greatest, I'm sure of that but in some way it just gets us to think.
I agree with Treva when she says "heroic people aren't created" mainly because it is true, but he was born to be sent up to be a commander. He wasn't born and then found because of who he was. He was an experiment from the start. My question though, is why did he follow through with everything after he found out about everything in the later chapters? Because of Valentine, or what?
I was shocked to find out that there were more buggers. It was the last thing I expected the book to end with. And you have to understand that it took them two years to reach the bugger planet. A lot can change in a couple years, which is very convenient because the book is mostly because of the short amount of years it took Ender to beat the buggers. Plus, it's very happy because it's not a tragedy. Ender has his loving sister, conspicuous uncle, and Earth's hero along with him to make a new planet thrive. It was a happy ending with Peter saving lives on Earth while Valentine and Ender don't have to deal with him. It was a great ending to an extraordinary book. Especially the Speaker of the Dead chapter because of the buggers. How will the humans and buggers get along?
I liked how the book ended!! The resolution made the Buggers look more humane, and helped Ender understand what they were all about. It gave Ender some assurance that he was not evil, and was not a murderer. He really did something for the good of humanity, and maybe someday the humans and buggers could live in peace. :)
I don't understand how it made Ender feel assured that he wasn't a murderer. He was. He almost genocided(not sure how to spell that) a whole entire race. One bugger survived. One. I just don't see how deciding to help the new Queen find a new home, justifies, in his eyes or anyone else, almost killing off a whole race. And in the end it wasn't really the good of humanity, since the buggers were never going to kill anymore humans anyways.
I don't think Ender thinks he is a hero. The way he sees it, he wa just playing along with the game, he was cheating. His cheating however ended up saving an entire race, while completely wiping out another.
Ender doesn't seem hero to me, he killed 2 boys but he didn't mean to and destroyed a race. Some people would think of him as a hero but it depends how they would use "define a hero" haha that was like long ago.
I don't think it was definite either way. I mean, he did save humanity, but at the expense of other intelligent civilization. It was a win-lose situation and in the end somebody had to decide who lived through it. Unfortunately, the decision wasn't in Ender's hands, so i think that's the reason he had so much guilt and anger afterwards- he had a lot of mental turmoil wondering if it would have been an different if he knew. He was a hero to some, but not to himself. And if he wasn't proud of his accomplishments personally, I don't believe he could be a hero. But his actions at the end redeemed him. It's not straightforward either way, and I suppose that;s the way it is.
I think it isn't Ender who decided to become a hero, but he did have some heroic moments. It's hard to be a true hero in this society because everything is controlled. Ender was the chosen hero. To those who wanted to see the humans win the buggers war he was the hero but in Ender's eyes he didn't think he was a hero. He couldn't have become the hero by choice, because by choice he never would have gone to battle school. So I agree with Hayley that Ender isn't seen as a hero in his eyes because he was merely following orders and playing the game which ended up being a twisted game.
I don't think of Ender as a hero because for what he had done such as killing 2 boys and get rid of the race which I don't picture a hero is. Also he was used by Graff and the commanders for killing the Buggers. But I know how he felt because he had no choice and it's a tough decision.
I don't think Ender is a hero. Sure he is to the humans but they dont know what Ender knows. Ender knows that the buggers were never going to come back to kill them, and so Ender feels like he's just a murderer. Ender never saved anyone from the buggers because they were never going to at again, sure no one knew that but logically if the buggers wanted to whipe out the humans they would'nt have waited so long. There was no threat to save anyone from so how could Ender be a hero?
I agree with Haley. It seemed like all this work for nothing? He was turned into a murderer that never saved anyone. And the buggers never wanted to attack! Whats up with that! At the same time I believe something bigs going to happen in the other books, because its leading to that.
Ender is definitely not a hero I'm sure some people in the story thought he was Ender himself doesn't think he was because he killed all the buggers and he knows that they weren't going to attack. Ender is almost like the bullies that wanted to kill him.
I agree but while he whipped the buggers out he also decided to save them by not kill the queen bugger when he found her. Ender took her to take her to a new plant where she can grow and be able to bring the bugger race back, which in a way he also saved them. So Ender's the destroyer and the savior of the bugger race.
All of humankind thinks of Ender as a hero... except Ender himself. He thinks of himself as a little kid who wiped out an entire race by cheating at some simulation. But towards the end, when Ender goes to the Bugger's planet and finds the scenes from his imagination, and then the queen, he figures out the truth of the Bugger's and how they never wanted to destroy the humans. In the end he starts to view himself as a hero for the Bugger race, the "Speaker for the Dead"
It said in the book that they found him through the ansible. They entered into his mind, and used his dreams to communicate with him through the fantasy game. It said that he was the only one they knew so they could only talk to him. They speak to each other not based off of nothing, and use language to discover them. They can only speak to one another once they know everything about them. They are one being so they had to know Ender to speak through him. If that makes sense? And he definitely loves Val. He just hates that they use the one thing he loves against him.
According to the definition of hero in the king Arthur book ender most definetly is not a hero because he isn't of noble birth and loyal to any king. Ender killed a lot of buggers without them or himself knowing. He ruined lives and hurt plenty of people in fights. No hero what so ever
Gosh you speak the truth joe. That really is what I was gonna say but I knew there was someone out there that would say it so I'm glad I left it there for you. Hopefully I have time for the sequel and see if we were right or not.
The end of the book makes the buggers sound nice and not such blood thirsty savage killers. They seemed more humane. I'm surprised that the buggers left what they left for the humans knowing that someday they could live in peace with the humans by the buggers leaving a queen egg. The end was great and made me feel happy that everything will be ok in the end.
I feel that the book ended the way is did because the author wanted to set it up for the next book in the series and to end the story on a happier note for once.
I believe that Ender was a hero and all of mankind thought so as well but he wasn't even aware that he was actually going against real buggers and that he defeated them. When Ender found out that he had destroyed them he didn't believe them. He didn't want to be a killer.
Ender is a hero to his world but he didnt know that he was being a hero. he was a killer when he didnt want to be but all together he ended up being a savior of the bugger racer and therefore he is not only a killer but he can be a savior as well. he is not peter.
I think the book ends the way it is to continue on to the next one.. I like this book so much that I want to read the next series.. Anyway what is the next book to it?
I think that ender is a hero in the eyes of the people but for him I think he sees himself as more of a villian because he didn't save any lives, the buggers where never coming back and he destroyed all of there knowlage and culture.
I think Ender is viewed as a hero to humans because he ended the war, but Ender feels as if it wasn't fair how he ended the war, he thought he was just winning a game. When he goes to the Buggers' world for colonization he realizes the truth and discovers that he needs to speak for the queen and the Bugger race. I think he becomes his own hero, or at least and respected person in his mind, when he speaks for them and becomes the "Speaker of the Dead."
Ender indeed is a hero, it might not seem so because of how violent he might have been seen as but he is a hero. He ended the war between the Buggers and that was why I think he is a hero. To others, it might not have been that way because he did kill, but he didn't mean to. All he wanted was peace, in my opinion.
Even though she is a child she can easily manipulate people because she is like ender smarter than most others, the average person is kinda stupid, almost metal deficient compared to any of the wiggins. i think the book ends they way it dose so it can open up for the next books. Ender is a hero, in the fact that he had to give up so much of his childhood for the IF, he has to face his enemy, and like a greek hero he has his flaw of letting people manipulate him.
The book the way it ode because it not over. The squeal is going to be pretty good and i might want to read it. I also will want to see the movie coming out next year!
I thought this was an excellent book! I loved how it ended, totally surprised me! Enders is a true hero because he saved all of his home planet from the buggers, even though he had no intention of doing it, he still was going to do it later on. Enders way of thinking was very genious in killing the kings. i thought it was a great book.
I know a lot of people hated the ending, but it BLEW MY MIND. I think Card executed it beautifully. I started to expect what would happen partially through the explanation, but that was part of what made it so satisfying. Knowing that I had created the correct theory in my mind, but it wasn't revealed so soon that it didn't surprise me. I know I could never have thought of anything so complex, so I have a great respect for the mind of Card.
Ender is a hero in my mind because he saved his world from being extinct. At the same time there is no way that he could have done any different. He was born and raised to kill the buggers un-knowing that he was ever going to or that it was his purrpose in life. He in my mind had the biggest scamm ever happen to him because he didnt know what he was doing when he did it.
I think Ender is a hero, no matter what he thinks of himself. When he found out that some of his own army members died to end the Buggers race, Ender felt terrible. Sometimes though, that is what has to happen to save the planet. In order to save the billions of humans on earth, he had to sacrifice a few of his men. In the end, Ender did the right thing and saved the world.
I think that the book ends the way it does to show all in all the kinda person Ender proves to be. That it was never Ender's attention to hurt anybody let alone wipe out a whole race. The way it ends I think is pretty cool. It shows that Ender wants to fix what he did and goes searching for a place to repopulate to buggers species. Ender's actions show the type of person he is. The type of person he has always been.
I like the sorta twist at the end about how the buggers knew about Ender and that they were the ones who created the mind game. The end was not at all what I expected it to be.
I do not think Ender is a hero cause he killed many buggers mercilessly and that is not what a hero does at all and he does not fight for a noble cause but it was nice of him to go searching for a place to repopulate the buggers even though he didnt have too. I thought the book had a great twist at the end and overall was a great read
I feel conflicted about whether Ender is a hero. I mean, to the other humans he is, but what's that matter when you think you murdered an entire race without knowing? People say its not what others think, but what YOU think.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, at the end, we find out that the 'buggers' weren't actually going to come back and kill them, so in the end all that effort, all the pain, and the blood, sweat, and tears that Ender gave up were all, in effect, completely pointless? His and countless other children's lives, futures, were permentally altered and possibly destroyed, their minds also, all for NOTHING?
I know that the humans had no idea that the 'buggers' were never going to attack again, but all the pointless bloodshed seems so....so POINTLESS in the end, and now makes me think no, Ender is no hero in the end. In the end he is just a little boy whose life was manipulated with because some adults didn't know diddly-squat about their enemies. And yes, I know, it's not the humans fault, really, but such wasted life is sad. Book or not.
Ender is not a hero, because really he never saved any lives, but destroyed a whole race, and killed two other boys. Even if all the killing was self-defence. The boys deserved to get the poo beat out of them, and I know Ender didn't mean to kill them, so I don't blame him.
But, really, who did Ender save?
I don't think Ender saved anyone. He mostly just ruined lives. And yet everyone pretends it's all happy at the end. Showing the ignorance of the human race..
DeleteI think everyone pretends it a happy ending not because he saved anyone but every one just likes the book. Well, most do. In the end yes, Ender didn't seems to really save anyone but he did go through a lot.
DeleteI don't think he had a choice- I mean, even if he knew the whole time, he would eventually become a commander and have to make the decisions he did. He saved what he could, and he lost a lot, and yes, screwed some people up along the way, but he was only human. And he was what, 12 years old? He saved what was important to him- Valentine. There's heroism in that. Not really enough to make a statue of, but meeting personal hopes is commendable, especially in his situation. And he kept searching and found peace for the buggers- something that others wouldn't have done in his place. He wasn't perfect, but the best things never are.
DeleteNobody's happy, as Treva said, he just ruined a bunch of peoples' lives and everyone puts on a fake smile.
DeleteAbbie is right. Ender had no choice of doing what he did in Battle School. He did what he did even thought he did not mean it. All he ever wanted was to get out of being like his brother, but he ended up being worse than his brother, even if he did nothing. He is a hero in a way, as Abbie said, and it might not have been so obvious because he killed two people but he is a hero in some way.
DeleteEnder saved the world because if he hadn't have saved the world from the buggers then the buggers would have eventualy ended the human kind world for ever.
DeleteI've been reading back through the book, but I can't find if they explain why Andrew has the nickname Ender? I know that Val gave him that nickname, but why? Because he is a Third?
ReplyDeleteI think Valentine give him the name at first because she probably couldn't pronounce "Andrew" when she was little. However, the name is also kind of a pun. Through out the book when Graff or Mazer talked about how Ender was their last hope, I kept thinking Ender was the "End Game" of the bugger war. See what Orson did there? I don't know though, that's just how I saw it.
DeleteOkkay, I get it. Thanks, Paige.
DeleteI'm curious as to the next three books in the series. Does anyone know the plot or who they focus on? I'm definitely going to read them, I just was wondering if anybody had any intel on them prior.
ReplyDeleteFor the most they are about humans and alien conflict of sorts, I believe. The next has Ender in it, but after that I don't recall him being a character in them. He could, I suppose, but I don't recall. That applies to the Ender series. There are books about Bean, also, though.
DeleteThe book ends this way because it helps tell of the next book. It gives you questions that can't be answered unless you read the next book. It makes you think about the bugger queen and what will happen. It makes you think about how the buggers made the fantasy world just as the computer had shown Ender.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Alex, about how the book ends. It makes you wonder what happens to Ender and Val. It also makes you wonder what happens to the bugger queen. These things you cant find out until read the next book. I think the buggers had been in touch with Ender's mind for awhile to have make the fantasy world for him. When Ender had the dream about the buggers vivisecting his mind, his memories, I don't think it was just a dream I think the buggers were actually vivisecting his memories and that's how they knew about the fantasy world and how they figured out how to make it. The queen bugger being able to talk to Ender helps support my theory about the buggers being in his mind.
DeleteThis is true, if it weren't for the ending, there wouldn't be a next book, well of course that's us saying it AFTER the sequel has already been released.
DeleteThis is the second time I read this book, and to be honest,I disliked it just as much as I did the first time. I can see why it's a sophomore curriculum book, there's literary devices all up in there! But as far as plot, I feel like it was an epic fail. Just saying.. You can't go from pain and anguish to happy little bunnies that fast, it just loses the gravity of the whole book.. No pun intended.
ReplyDeleteTo add on, I don't think Ender is a hero. Heroic people aren't created. It's who they are. Yes Ender was smart but they made him a commander through years of manipulation. He would only be a hero if he just randomly went and saved the earth, and all the buggers too. Then created peace for everyone. All on a whim.
DeleteI agree that Ender is not a hero. He is NO WAY heroic from my eyes. But I think the ending was exactly what he was shooting for. Leaving all these questions. It did catch the attention of some of us and make us want to keep reading. THAT'S why this Is setting us up for the next books and the requirement to read this book isn't the greatest, I'm sure of that but in some way it just gets us to think.
DeleteI agree with Treva when she says "heroic people aren't created" mainly because it is true, but he was born to be sent up to be a commander. He wasn't born and then found because of who he was. He was an experiment from the start. My question though, is why did he follow through with everything after he found out about everything in the later chapters? Because of Valentine, or what?
DeleteI was shocked to find out that there were more buggers. It was the last thing I expected the book to end with.
ReplyDeleteAnd you have to understand that it took them two years to reach the bugger planet. A lot can change in a couple years, which is very convenient because the book is mostly because of the short amount of years it took Ender to beat the buggers.
Plus, it's very happy because it's not a tragedy. Ender has his loving sister, conspicuous uncle, and Earth's hero along with him to make a new planet thrive. It was a happy ending with Peter saving lives on Earth while Valentine and Ender don't have to deal with him.
It was a great ending to an extraordinary book. Especially the Speaker of the Dead chapter because of the buggers. How will the humans and buggers get along?
I liked how the book ended!! The resolution made the Buggers look more humane, and helped Ender understand what they were all about. It gave Ender some assurance that he was not evil, and was not a murderer. He really did something for the good of humanity, and maybe someday the humans and buggers could live in peace. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how it made Ender feel assured that he wasn't a murderer. He was. He almost genocided(not sure how to spell that) a whole entire race. One bugger survived. One. I just don't see how deciding to help the new Queen find a new home, justifies, in his eyes or anyone else, almost killing off a whole race. And in the end it wasn't really the good of humanity, since the buggers were never going to kill anymore humans anyways.
DeleteI don't think Ender thinks he is a hero. The way he sees it, he wa just playing along with the game, he was cheating. His cheating however ended up saving an entire race, while completely wiping out another.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't really save any race. Humans were never really in danger. He really only completely destroyed a race.
DeleteEnder doesn't seem hero to me, he killed 2 boys but he didn't mean to and destroyed a race. Some people would think of him as a hero but it depends how they would use "define a hero" haha that was like long ago.
DeleteI don't think it was definite either way. I mean, he did save humanity, but at the expense of other intelligent civilization. It was a win-lose situation and in the end somebody had to decide who lived through it. Unfortunately, the decision wasn't in Ender's hands, so i think that's the reason he had so much guilt and anger afterwards- he had a lot of mental turmoil wondering if it would have been an different if he knew. He was a hero to some, but not to himself. And if he wasn't proud of his accomplishments personally, I don't believe he could be a hero. But his actions at the end redeemed him. It's not straightforward either way, and I suppose that;s the way it is.
DeleteI think it isn't Ender who decided to become a hero, but he did have some heroic moments. It's hard to be a true hero in this society because everything is controlled. Ender was the chosen hero. To those who wanted to see the humans win the buggers war he was the hero but in Ender's eyes he didn't think he was a hero. He couldn't have become the hero by choice, because by choice he never would have gone to battle school. So I agree with Hayley that Ender isn't seen as a hero in his eyes because he was merely following orders and playing the game which ended up being a twisted game.
DeleteI don't think of Ender as a hero because for what he had done such as killing 2 boys and get rid of the race which I don't picture a hero is. Also he was used by Graff and the commanders for killing the Buggers. But I know how he felt because he had no choice and it's a tough decision.
ReplyDeleteAlso cannot wait for the movie to come out on 2013!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think Ender is a hero. Sure he is to the humans but they dont know what Ender knows. Ender knows that the buggers were never going to come back to kill them, and so Ender feels like he's just a murderer. Ender never saved anyone from the buggers because they were never going to at again, sure no one knew that but logically if the buggers wanted to whipe out the humans they would'nt have waited so long. There was no threat to save anyone from so how could Ender be a hero?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Haley. It seemed like all this work for nothing? He was turned into a murderer that never saved anyone. And the buggers never wanted to attack! Whats up with that! At the same time I believe something bigs going to happen in the other books, because its leading to that.
DeleteEnder is definitely not a hero I'm sure some people in the story thought he was Ender himself doesn't think he was because he killed all the buggers and he knows that they weren't going to attack. Ender is almost like the bullies that wanted to kill him.
ReplyDeleteI agree but while he whipped the buggers out he also decided to save them by not kill the queen bugger when he found her. Ender took her to take her to a new plant where she can grow and be able to bring the bugger race back, which in a way he also saved them. So Ender's the destroyer and the savior of the bugger race.
DeleteAll of humankind thinks of Ender as a hero... except Ender himself. He thinks of himself as a little kid who wiped out an entire race by cheating at some simulation. But towards the end, when Ender goes to the Bugger's planet and finds the scenes from his imagination, and then the queen, he figures out the truth of the Bugger's and how they never wanted to destroy the humans. In the end he starts to view himself as a hero for the Bugger race, the "Speaker for the Dead"
ReplyDeleteHow is the queen bugger able to talk to Ender? Why just Ender? Also does Ender hate Val or does he love her?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the queen was talking to him through telepathy or I would like to think so.
DeleteIt said in the book that they found him through the ansible. They entered into his mind, and used his dreams to communicate with him through the fantasy game. It said that he was the only one they knew so they could only talk to him. They speak to each other not based off of nothing, and use language to discover them. They can only speak to one another once they know everything about them. They are one being so they had to know Ender to speak through him. If that makes sense? And he definitely loves Val. He just hates that they use the one thing he loves against him.
DeleteAccording to the definition of hero in the king Arthur book ender most definetly is not a hero because he isn't of noble birth and loyal to any king. Ender killed a lot of buggers without them or himself knowing. He ruined lives and hurt plenty of people in fights. No hero what so ever
ReplyDeleteYes i agree those were very un heroic acts and the gods will look down on him
DeleteI think the book ends the way it does because the author is setting up for a sequel and wants the reader to stay in a suspensive state.
ReplyDeleteGosh you speak the truth joe. That really is what I was gonna say but I knew there was someone out there that would say it so I'm glad I left it there for you. Hopefully I have time for the sequel and see if we were right or not.
DeleteThe end of the book makes the buggers sound nice and not such blood thirsty savage killers. They seemed more humane. I'm surprised that the buggers left what they left for the humans knowing that someday they could live in peace with the humans by the buggers leaving a queen egg. The end was great and made me feel happy that everything will be ok in the end.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the book ended the way is did because the author wanted to set it up for the next book in the series and to end the story on a happier note for once.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Ender was a hero and all of mankind thought so as well but he wasn't even aware that he was actually going against real buggers and that he defeated them. When Ender found out that he had destroyed them he didn't believe them. He didn't want to be a killer.
ReplyDeleteEnder is a hero to his world but he didnt know that he was being a hero. he was a killer when he didnt want to be but all together he ended up being a savior of the bugger racer and therefore he is not only a killer but he can be a savior as well. he is not peter.
ReplyDeleteI think the book ends the way it is to continue on to the next one.. I like this book so much that I want to read the next series.. Anyway what is the next book to it?
ReplyDeleteI think that ender is a hero in the eyes of the people but for him I think he sees himself as more of a villian because he didn't save any lives, the buggers where never coming back and he destroyed all of there knowlage and culture.
ReplyDeleteI think Ender is viewed as a hero to humans because he ended the war, but Ender feels as if it wasn't fair how he ended the war, he thought he was just winning a game. When he goes to the Buggers' world for colonization he realizes the truth and discovers that he needs to speak for the queen and the Bugger race. I think he becomes his own hero, or at least and respected person in his mind, when he speaks for them and becomes the "Speaker of the Dead."
ReplyDeleteEnder indeed is a hero, it might not seem so because of how violent he might have been seen as but he is a hero. He ended the war between the Buggers and that was why I think he is a hero. To others, it might not have been that way because he did kill, but he didn't mean to. All he wanted was peace, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteEven though she is a child she can easily manipulate people because she is like ender smarter than most others, the average person is kinda stupid, almost metal deficient compared to any of the wiggins. i think the book ends they way it dose so it can open up for the next books. Ender is a hero, in the fact that he had to give up so much of his childhood for the IF, he has to face his enemy, and like a greek hero he has his flaw of letting people manipulate him.
ReplyDeleteThe book the way it ode because it not over. The squeal is going to be pretty good and i might want to read it. I also will want to see the movie coming out next year!
ReplyDeleteI thought this was an excellent book! I loved how it ended, totally surprised me! Enders is a true hero because he saved all of his home planet from the buggers, even though he had no intention of doing it, he still was going to do it later on. Enders way of thinking was very genious in killing the kings. i thought it was a great book.
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of people hated the ending, but it BLEW MY MIND. I think Card executed it beautifully. I started to expect what would happen partially through the explanation, but that was part of what made it so satisfying. Knowing that I had created the correct theory in my mind, but it wasn't revealed so soon that it didn't surprise me. I know I could never have thought of anything so complex, so I have a great respect for the mind of Card.
ReplyDeleteEnder is a hero in my mind because he saved his world from being extinct. At the same time there is no way that he could have done any different. He was born and raised to kill the buggers un-knowing that he was ever going to or that it was his purrpose in life. He in my mind had the biggest scamm ever happen to him because he didnt know what he was doing when he did it.
ReplyDeleteI think Ender is a hero, no matter what he thinks of himself. When he found out that some of his own army members died to end the Buggers race, Ender felt terrible. Sometimes though, that is what has to happen to save the planet. In order to save the billions of humans on earth, he had to sacrifice a few of his men. In the end, Ender did the right thing and saved the world.
ReplyDeleteI think that the book ends the way it does to show all in all the kinda person Ender proves to be. That it was never Ender's attention to hurt anybody let alone wipe out a whole race. The way it ends I think is pretty cool. It shows that Ender wants to fix what he did and goes searching for a place to repopulate to buggers species. Ender's actions show the type of person he is. The type of person he has always been.
ReplyDeleteI like the sorta twist at the end about how the buggers knew about Ender and that they were the ones who created the mind game. The end was not at all what I expected it to be.
I do not think Ender is a hero cause he killed many buggers mercilessly and that is not what a hero does at all and he does not fight for a noble cause but it was nice of him to go searching for a place to repopulate the buggers even though he didnt have too. I thought the book had a great twist at the end and overall was a great read
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