JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. That is a very good question: what is up with this ending? You ever notice how some recent films seem to wrap things up…and then go on and wrap things up again. This book is kind of like that. Ending 1: We have the end of Chapter 14, when we learn that Ender has been fighting a real war against the aliens. Ending 2: Next, Card throws in a bunch of stuff about Ender leaving Earth for one of the colony planets.
That seems like an interesting ending: Ender getting to reconnect and start over with his family well, with the good parts of his family, at least. Ending 3: After that we have Ender discovering the bugger queen pupa, which is pretty cool. He talks to it and learns all about the buggers, and then he hatches sorry for the pun a plan to live with them in peace after he resurrects them from the brink of extinction. Awesome, right? Ending 4: Finally, Ender invents a new religion.
Which is totally how all novels should end — just have a character in the last few pages invent a new religion. Or maybe it does. Jim Bennett is a recovering actor, theater producer and politico, and he writes about pop culture and politics at his blog, stallioncornell.
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Print Subscriptions. Deseret News homepage. Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. We were not, however, entertained. Report confirms what consumers already know — prices are up, and U. Bonzo attacks Ender in the shower room and Ender beats him, brutally, because he was forced to. Ender is then transferred out of Battle School to Command School. The authorities figured out Valentine and Peter's actions but have decided to leave them alone.
Valentine visits Ender while he is given a brief vacation, and it is clear that things have changed between them.
Graff takes Ender to Eros, the planet that holds the International Fleet command, and there Ender is introduced to Mazer Rackham, the hero of the second bugger invasion, who saved mankind. Rackham runs Ender through a series of simulated battles, where he now commands an entire fleet. Ender learns that the buggers are like highly evolved insects and they communicate instantaneously—their queen thinks for all of them.
Ender begins having strange dreams about the buggers. He fights more and more difficult battles and one day fights a huge battle against impossible odds with many officers watching. Ender wins, at great cost, and it becomes apparent that it was a real battle, as were all of his supposedly simulated battles, and that he completely destroyed the buggers.
Ender was used, and he knows it, as do his teachers, but they explain that they needed him, a child, to have the compassion to understand the enemy.
At the same time they needed him to think it was a game in order to be able to win with such great loss of life. Peter has taken over control of the world and Valentine convinces Ender to set off with her on a colonization mission to populate the worlds left behind by the buggers. Before he goes Ender learns that he did killed Bonzo as well as the bully back in school. On the new planet Ender finds an area that he realizes looks just like the mind game and he realizes that the buggers had prepared for his coming—they had looked into his mind and knew he would defeat them.
He finds a queen pupa, left behind for him to find a place for the buggers to live again. Ender can think to the queen, and sees that the buggers did not truly wish to fight the humans and feels their sorrow for all that happens. Ender decides to make it his mission to find a place for the buggers to live.
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Characters Ender Valentine Peter.
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