Ender+Ch+14-15


 * Chapter 14: Ender’s Teacher**

107. What is being discussed in the dialogue at the beginning of the chapter?

108. Why doesn’t Ender like Eros? Track your answer, as you will discover more as you read further into the chapter.

109. What is the simulator? Track your answer; it will develop as you read on in this chapter.

110. Who is Ender’s teacher? Why was he chosen? How does he explain the fact that he is still alive?

111. Why does Mazer Rackham say that “there is no teacher but the enemy”? Do you agree with him?

112. Why does Mazer Rackham beat Ender physically? What lesson is he trying to teach?

113. How did Mazer Rackham defeat the buggers in the Second Invasion?

114. What was the purpose of the First Invasion? the Second Invasion? the Third Invasion?

115. What/Who is Dr. Device?

116. Who are Ender’s squad leaders when he begins training with Mazer Rackham?

117. What, according to Mazer, are Ender’s advantages and disadvantages when he faces the bugger fleet?

118. “But as their trust in Ender as a commander grew their friendship...gradually disappeared....Ender was their teacher and commander, as distant from them as Mazer was from him.” Why must Ender be isolated from friends? What dangers could arise from having “friendship” with those you must lead?

119. What happens to Petra?

120. Describe Ender’s “final examination.” How does Ender win? How is this victory like every other victory he has ever had? What does Ender discover after it is done? Were you surprised?

121. Now that you know it all, think about how Ender was guided to this point. How do you feel for Ender? Why?


 * Chapter 15: Speaker for the Dead**

122. What is being discussed in the dialogue at the beginning of the chapter?

123. Why do you think there is no introductory dialogue for this chapter?

124. What is Graff going to do now that the war is over? What is Anderson going to do?

125. Why can’t Ender come back to earth?

126. What happens to Locke and Demosthenes?

127. How did Valentine win her and Ender’s freedom from Peter? What does Valentine intend to do?

128. Why does Ender want to go to the buggers’ home world?

129. How did the buggers control Ender’s computer game? What does he find when he looks behind the mirror?

130. Why does Ender refer to himself as Speaker for the Dead? Whose deaths does he speak?

131. What mission does Ender go on at the end of the book?