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Summer Reading Packet
Literature Log for
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Literary Terms and Definition
SettingConflict / Make sure that you explain the different conflicts.
Plot
Characterization / Provide as many details as possible for the different characters.
Literature Log
1. Explain why the adults lie to Ender.
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2. Explain what it means for Ender to be born a “Third.”
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3. In chapter two, explain how Peter’s behavior changes from the beginning of the chapter to the end of the chapter.
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4. Explain your feeling for each of the following characters and explain what the author has done to make you feel this way: Ender, Valentine, and Peter
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5. Explain the meaning of the following quote as stated in chapter four: “Individual human beings are tools that the others use to help us all survive.”
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6. (chapter 6) What is the purpose of the “Giant’s” game? How should Ender evaluate his success at the game? Is he a murderer?
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7. (chapter 7) How did Petra help Ender? How is Petra’s friendship a hindrance (limitation, deterrent) to Ender?
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8. (chapter 8) Discuss the importance of the last paragraph of the chapter.
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9. (chapter 9) There is a real, unspoken battle between Peter and Valentine. Who is manipulating whom? Who really has the power?
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10. (chapter 10) What kind of leader was Ender? Explain.
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11. (chapter 10) What does the word “Salaam” mean?
12. (chapter 10) What important event occurs at the end of the chapter?
13. (chapter 11) Why are the teachers pushing Ender so hard?
14. (chapter 12) Who was Stilson? Why was Ender thinking of him?
15. (chapter 12) Why was Ender not informed of the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo?
16. (chapter 13) Discuss Valentines conflicting thoughts about her brothers. How have Peter and Enders roles shifted? How does Valentine feel about each?
17. (chapter 14) What disturbs Ender about Eros? How does Ender figure out the truth about Eros?
18. (chapter 14) Is genocide (the deliberate extermination of a race or culture) , or in the case of Enders Game, where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide, ever justified? Was the xenocide of the Buggers unavoidable? Why?
19. (chapter 15) Why did Valentine make sure that Ender could never return to Earth?
20. (chapter 15) Why does Ender publish the book using the pseudonym, “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name?