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What Valentine thinks about Peter?

What Valentine thinks about Peter?

Valentine thinks he means that he will never be able to beat Peter, but she does not understand that he only wants Peter to love him. Valentine appeals to Ender, for her sake, to go save mankind.

What does Ender tell Valentine he wants from Peter?

Valentine tells Ender that the only way he’ll be able to outshine Peter is by defeating the Buggers. Ender shakes his head: he doesn’t want to “beat Peter”—he wants Peter to love him. Valentine doesn’t know what to say, as she doubts Peter loves anyone.

How does Valentine feel about Ender?

Valentine has much of Ender’s compassion, but she does not have Peter’s ruthlessness. She never ceases believing that Ender is the best of them, and she loves him unconditionally. In fact, her love helps save Ender when the pointlessness of Battle School threatens to break him.

Why does Valentine help Peter?

Valentine knows that Peter can find peoples fears and manipulate them and that she can persuade people to do what she wants them to do, and realizes that there is much of Peter in her—they both manipulate in their own ways. He has a plan to take over the world.

Why do you think Peter hates Ender so much?

Why does Peter hate Ender? Peter does not want a third, and jealous that the government allowed Ender. Ender is better than Peter. when Ender’s father gets home, he expresses joy at the fact that his third, Ender, wasn’t taken away by the government.

What does Ender find when he removes the mirror?

What does Ender find when he removes the mirror? Ender finds “The pupa of a queen bugger, already fertilized by the larval males, ready, out of her own body, to hatch a hundred thousand buggers, including a few queens and males.”

Why does Valentine consider herself more powerful than Peter?

Valentine, however, has two powerful means by which to protect herself from her older brother. The first is Peter’s own self-interest. The second is her gift of persuasion. Valentine knows that Peter was capable of terrible things.

How does Valentine know that Peter has not changed?

How does Valentine know that Peter has not changed? She has found the dead bodies of squirrels in the woods that Peter has tortured and killed.

Is Ender more like Valentine or Peter?

Ender is more similar in personality to Valentine than Peter because he is compassionate, selfless, and remorseful, while Peter is not. One trait that Ender and Valentine share are their overwhelming sense of compassion, in other words, their sympathy and concern for the suffering and misfortune of others.

Why was Peter rejected by the IF?

Peter was rejected, according to an I.F. officer, “… because he’s one of the most ruthless and unreliable human beings we’ve ever laid hands on.” Why does Ender’s family move to North Carolina?

Is Peter jealous of Ender?

Peter was jealous that Ender had kept his monitor until he was six, whereas Peter and Valentine had gotten theirs off much younger. “Looks like you’ve got it made here.” – Boy next to Ender whilst launching, Ch 4, Pg 24. This quote shows that people were jealous of Ender because Graff praised him constantly.

How does Ender respond to the letter from Valentine Why?

How does Ender respond to the letter from Valentine? Why? Ender feels intense self-hatred for his forgetting of her and quits the Battle School. Ender feels compassion for his sister and decides to return to Earth to see her immediately.

How does Valentine feel about Ender and Peter?

Valentine doesn’t know what to say, as she doubts Peter loves anyone. Even Valentine fails to understand what Ender wants, as she assumes that Ender’s relationship with Peter is based only on competition.

What did Peter say to Ender in Ender’s game?

I was a vicious, nasty brother. I was cruel to you and crueler to Ender before they took him. But I didn’t hate you. I loved you both, I just had to be—had to have control, do you understand that? Peter tries to convince Valentine to help him in his plan to rule the world. He acknowledges that he has been cruel to both Valentine and Ender.

Who is Ender’s sister in the book Ender?

Valentine is Ender’s older sister, and she does what she can to protect him from Peter, their sadistic older brother. Valentine has much of Ender’s compassion, but she does not have Peter’s ruthlessness.

What does Graff tell Valentine in Ender’s game?

In the car, Graff tells Valentine the truth: he knows that she’s Demosthenes. Graff assures Valentine that the IF has no intention of revealing her identity: it’s in their interest to use Locke and Demosthenes—together—to promote stability and balance.