Ender's Game Answers for 1-5 chapters

Chapter 1

1. The attitude that motivates the adults to lie to Ender were that they wanted him to get the monitor removed so they lied about if it hurt. Also they wanted to see how he acted without his monitor. Orson Scottcard sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.
2. What it means for Ender to be born a "Third" is because the families were only allowed to have 2 children, but the goverment authorized Ender's birth. It means he is a 3rd child.
   - his parents, still love him even though Ender is a third child. (positive)
    Ender wants his brother, Peter, to like him, but Peter won't because he beats him up cause he is jealous.(negative)
   - his sister, Valentine, and she tries to protect him and  doesn't think of him any different than a first or second child (positive) 
   - his classmates they bully Ender kind of like Peter (negative) they call him third and make fun of him because his monitor is gone.

Chapter 2

1. Peter was not joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine. An example from the book is peter was saying " I could  press and press until your dead. And you'd be dead. Everything would be fine." and when threatening Valentine "Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister." and he is talking about killing them in future tense.  Peter is violent so that is a clue.
2. I think it is different because the parents are there he was possibly joking or he started to feel bad. Peter felt bad about being mean because he could tell Ender was sad.
3. I feel bad for Ender because no matter how he is one example is the boys at school another was Peter beating him up. Valentine seems to be a strong and independent kid that cares about her family, she wanted to help Ender. Peter probably acts tough because he does not want to be shown up by Ender and he has a reputation to uphold an example is he did not kill Ender . 

 Chapter 3

1. Graff meant the evolution was working against girls by saying there are a few girls, but they don't usually pass the test. too many centuries of evaluation are working against them. 
2.   Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand because he did not want to seem like he was lonly or change his mind and go running back to his family. Why does
   Orson Scott Card includes this action because he wants it to seem like he made the choice on his own.

Chapter 4

1. The following statement:, “Individual human beings are tools
   that the others use to help us all survive.”, means that we all use each other and the goverment use others to fight the buggers.
2. The following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
   otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." means that isolation will keep the boys creative or else they will adopt skills from others, but lose some of there skills.
3. Ender didn't mean to break the other boy’s arm. This incident made me realize that Ender could get tired of bullies so he fights back. It is acceptable to do despicable things for survival, because it is self-defense sometimes, but sometimes it is bad because you can really get hurt too

Chapter 5

1.  Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in
   front of any other person because he does not want to seem weak to everyone else. It is not healthy for him to be homesick cause it is only the first day. Ender already got in trouble so people knew him was positive. The negative things were him not having any friends, but at dinner a 12 or 13 year old boy came over named Mick and gave him some information. 
2. Ender beat Bernard by writing a note saying "I love your butt. Let me kiss it."- Bernard, and everyone got it on there desks. Him writing the note and having people call him butt watcher is an unusual solution to his problem.
3. The different coping mechanisms (ways of dealing with difficulties) Ender
   shows are jokes, counting double numbers, and ignoring the people. The jokes helped yet harmed Ender because some people got mad others laughed. Counting numbers helped Ender because he got distracted by all the numbers. Ignoring the people helped him not get in more trouble.