Chapter 1 – Third
1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?  The adults lie to Ender because they need to test him and see if he can get into battle school and they don't want him to know because he might mess it up.

2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is
a negative or positive fact to:
- his parents,  They love him but they feel shamed because of themselves because Ender is the third.
- his brother, Peter,  Peter is jealous because he knows Ender is better than him so he is mean to him because a third is better than him.
- his sister, Valentine, His sister is loving and protective to Ender.
- his classmates.  His class mates bully Ender because he is the third.

Chapter 2 – Peter
1. Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine?  Support your answer
with evidence from the novel.  Peter is a dark violent child.  but he was joking when he was threatening to kill Ender because at the end peter started laughing and saying I got you good.

2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the
rest of the chapter?  Because peter truly cares about him on the inside and he was saying that he was sorry.  

3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)?  What
did the author do to help create these feelings?  Give examples.  Ender is the main character with heart.  Valentine is a sweet character with a lot of love for Ender.  Peter is a violent child that hates Ender.
Chapter 3 – Graff
1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?  In historyeveryone thought that  war and fighting was man and the wemon would take care of the house and make food.
2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does
Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?

Chapter 4 – Launch
1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools
that the others use to help us all survive.”  The statement is talking about soldgers and how there tools to keep their countrey safe.

2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should
include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose. 

They need to keep Ender from the other group of children or he will adopt other behaviors and he could lose his creativity.  

3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm?  What does this incident tell us aboutEnder?  Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival?  Why or why not? 

Ender didn’t mean to break the other boys arm he was just going to catch it.  This shows that Ender isn’t aware of his own strength.   And it is to do despicable things for survival because your life could be at stake.

Chapter 5 – Games
1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in
front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not?   What is positive and what is
negative about showing feelings?  What is positive and what is negative about not
showing feelings?  I don’t think it is healthy because other kids will make it supper unhealthy