By:La Mar Harris II

Chapter 1:Setting Chapter 2:Charcters Chapter 4:Plot Chapter 5:Conflicts Chapter 6:Theme and Resolution

Setting

The novel starts off on earth, at the school, and the Wiggin home. After a few scenes from these places, Ender takes a ship to a battle school in space. On earth he starts out living in Greensboro, North Carolina and, soon after Ender takes a shuttle ride to Battle school, which introduces him to a space environment. Battle School is like Enders home, with rows of bunk beds dining halls one for soldiers and one for commanders, with scoreboards in the game room, with tons of video games for the children to play with. The battleroom is where the children have to practice battles in zero gravity, and it is a gym with shower rooms. There is also an area for teachers, which the children never go to, but it is where conversations between Graff and other adult’s takes place. Even though the Battle School is a very controlled setting, Ender realizes that the adults will use this control to put him through trials, that will prevent violence and conflict.

CHARCTER’S

Ender is a small boy, only six years old when the book begins. When Ender defeats the buggers he is only a little older then ten years old. He is a Third, but was able by the government to be born because he has the intelligence over the rest of the Wiggin children. He is nicer than Peter, but not as sensitive as Valentine. Because of this, Ender is able to do well in Battle School and command the human mission to the bugger home world in Command School. But he isn't a killer and regrets the deaths he caused. In this book he is the protagonist and doesn't cause problems.  Major  Protagonist  Static

The sister of Ender, she almost always comes to his defense, when Peter threatens him, or when Graff is says that Ender is like Peter. Although she agrees to go along with Peter’s plan for keeping the world united by acting like an online character named of Demosthenes in her articles on the internet. She believes that her ability to persuade people by flattery is very strong. She is able to use that power to keep Ender from going back to Earth, where she is sure that he would fall under Peter’s control, and instead takes him to the colony, where she writes a history of the war. In this story she is a protagonist. She cares about ender and is very nice.  Static  Protagonist  Semi-Major

The oldest of the Wiggin children, Peter uses threats and violence in order to control other people. Once in this book he tortured a squirrel in the woods, and admits his fears becoming evil. Like most teenagers peter wants power and takes on the identity of Locke in order to influence events on the internet. When the bugger war ends, he ends the fighting on Earth through the Locke Proposal, and basically rules the world. He defiantly is a antagonist because he causes problems. He is dynamic because he turns soft in the middle of the book, but then is his old evil self.  Antagonist  Semi-Major  Dynamic

this character appears only at the beginning of the chapters and then randomly through the events, he is the main adult character in the novel. It is Graff who decides what will be done to Ender in order to shape him into a commander, and although he knows that this will put Ender through a lot of tight situations, he says that, in the end, he will be Ender’s friend. In different perspectives he is the protagonist, and antagonist.

 These creatures are a threat to human people and have attacked earth twice before ender joined the army. They cant to talk with humans, they cant to explain the misunderstanding that made them fight against the humans in the other two wars, and fight the third one. In modern day times they remind me of cockroach aliens who fight very well. In this book they are antagonist in the humans eyes. These are static characters and are minor but always are mentioned.

Stilson is the bully at Ender’s old earth school in this book. He picks on Ender along with a group of other boys and when Ender talks him into fighting him, and beats him up. Although the character is thus physically absent from the rest of the novel, Ender thinks about him throughout, as the first time he was like peter.

Plot

 Rising Action – the rising action happens when Ender is at Battle School, and before Ender goes to Battle school. Also when he has problems in the fantasy game, and the struggle to learn new things, like in the army, with his Launchies. Another rising action point is back on earth when Peter and Valentine gain respect and power on the internet as Locke and Demosthenes. When all of these events are combined they set up for the battle with the buggers.  Climax – The climax happens when Ender thinks, he is having his final exam but really defeats the bugger’s in the 3 rd -invasion.  Falling action – The falling action happens after Ender beats the bugger army while thinking it is a simulation and is told that the battle was real. Peter controls the Earth, and rules, but after that no one talks about him. Valentine and Ender go to the first colony on a old bugger world. Soon after Ender finds the hive queen and promises to find her a place to live again. The book ends with Ender and Valentine in search of such a place.  Definition of Plot – A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.

Conflicts

Man vs. Man:  Ender and Peter have a conflict, it is when Peter always bullies ender.  Ender and Stiltsion have a conflict, when Stiltsion bullies him, then Ender retiles and hurts him. Man vs. Society:  Ender and launch team have a conflict when Graff sets him up for others to hate him, and they do but in the end they become a stronger team. Man vs. Self:  Ender and himself have a conflict about him being mentally like his older brother Peter.

 Theme – Children vs. Adults Ex1:When Graff and other adults manipulate and control the children. Ex2:They train the kids to fight the previous adult battles. Resolution The resolution is when Ender defeats the Buggers are and Ender is assigned to a colony ship with his sister.