https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe Book Club en-us 2018-05-09 15:55:23 UTC 2025-11-20 05:46:39 UTC hello@padlet.com 10004445 https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/259675142 Different characters' reactions to power seemed like a big part of the book. Ender exerts and resists power. He exerts it in a positive way rather than a negative way, using his power to help others and push them to the best of their abilities. He resists it when he's in the Battle School in multiple ways. He questions the teachers, he becomes tired of the game, he finds ways to do things that aren't supposed to be done on his desk, etc. Ender seems to almost break having all the power. He doesn't want it, he just wants to live normally. The power affects him majorly in a psychological way. On the other hand, Peter seeks and exerts power. He seeks it with his Locke persona and finding people's weaknesses. He exerts it to his brother Ender, controlling and bullying him when they're young on Earth. Peter wants the power, and doesn't struggle with having it. Those are two opposite reactions to power in the book, showing how it can affect different people.]]> 2018-05-10 15:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/259675142 10004066 https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/259675761 In Ender’s Game, Ender takes the archetype of the Hero of the story because he wants to save Earth once he realizes that other relationships like his with Valentine would be gone if the Buggers were successful.
On the opposite end, there weren’t really any specific villains. In the sense that everyone had their faults, but weren’t really evil. 
The mentor figure didn’t show up until late into the book, who turns out to be Mazer Rackham, who trains and teaches Ender to become a better Commander. 
There isn’t a very prominent mother figure present, however Valentine would be the most suitable, as she is a friendly and kind face when he’s surrounded by suspected enemies.
Instead of there being only a single sidekick, which is common, there was many sidekicks present to assist Ender. A few being Alai, Petra, and Bean who were with him through the years and were there when he was fighting the Buggers.
The antihero was a surprising one, Peter, as he was originally described as a very cruel and physchopathic person but he wound up ending a very large and deadly war on Earth, vying for peace between everyone.]]> 2018-05-10 15:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/259675761 10004066 https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/262404499 In Ender's Game, there are multiple possible villains. From the Buggers to even some of Ender's peers. However, some of them, by the end of the book, we can sympathize with. Such an example is Peter, Ender's brother. In the beginning, he's described as a cruel and abusive person. However, nearing the end of the book, he takes up the persona of Demosthenes and successfully stops a world war after news of the Buggers' defeat comes out. He does this by vying for peace between the countries, which he successfully does through his persona. While this could very well be a ploy or a stepping stone for his ultimate plan, we can say for certain that our view of him has changed at least a little bit more on the positive side. Whether his actions are true to his character or not we don't know. What we do know is that Peter seems to be changing for the better.]]> 2018-05-21 15:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/262404499 10004445 https://padlet.com/10003963/itce9m9saxhe/wish/262404623 There are multiple people you could consider villains within Ender's Game, though most are proven to not be villains by the end. A big group that can be considered a villain throughout the whole book is the Buggers. The Buggers are what cause everyone's fear. Everyone wanted them defeated. But when the time came, and they attacked the planet, Ender came to learn that maybe they weren't so bad after all. Ender saw that the Buggers were trying to communicate with them. He saw their civilization, the way they lived. It gave them a much more human side. Having this bit of humanity made room for sympathy one could have for the Buggers. They weren't seen as horrible creatures by the end of the book. They were mostly seen as a group that weren't able to communicate with people different than them, and therefore had consequences.

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