Why does Dink Meeker request ender for his platoon in rat army? Ender is put into Dink Meeker's toon platoon. Dink informs Ender that he asked specifically for him because he has been watching him in practice. Rose the Nose tells Ender to stop practicing with the Launchies and not to use his desk anymore because it is known he is a super programmer. Tonica Legras Pundit. How are good and evil addressed in Ender's Game?
Ender kills Stilson and Bonzo, as well as the entire bugger race except for one queen. Peter, on the other hand, is motivated by nothing except personal gain, and he does not care for people at all. Yet Peter saves many lives by coming to power the way he does. Yuriko Awrutin Pundit. What is Peter's plan to change the world? Peter plans to change the world by writing anonymously on 'the nets' in an attempt to change world politics. Peter wants to rule the world by producing a unified world peace for him to rule.
Shabnam Tovbich Pundit. Why is ender still angry? Ender is still angry because he thinks the Battle school controls everything way too much which is completely true.
He was tired of being given strict rules and having people run his life. He doesn't want to do all the things they tell him to do. Lean Babosov Pundit. What is John Locke known for? Narjes Rudroff Pundit. What does Demosthenes say is the most noble title any child can have? Apryl Stehle Teacher. What happens in chapter 10 of Ender's Game?
Graff gives Anderson the order to make Ender a commander, and Anderson agrees, apologizing for doubting his superior's tactics. They choose pseudonyms to write under, as no one would take the words of children seriously, choosing Locke Peter's pseudonym , and Demosthenes Valentine's and begin work.
Eventually they gain enough respect to be invited to participate in moderated political debates in the higher class nets. By the end of the book, Peter has become the leader of the world, and Valentine runs away with Ender to a planet formerly inhabited by Buggers to live out their lives in peace.
End spoiler alert! Ender's Game was published in , when most people had never used and some had never heard of the internet. The first webpage set up with individual personal opinions leaving out forums and bulletin board services was online in , the word "weblog" was invented in and "blog" in However, this apparently science-fictional future concept is now just the mundane and extremely un-influential act of blogging. In , Orson Scott Card's idea of how politics works in practice may have seemed a little naive, but now that blogging is an everyday phenomenon, Peter and Valentine's aspirations seem downright silly.
We see their plan to win vast political influence manifest itself as a WordPress blog, and a particularly unimportant one at that, with 0 comments on most posts. The joke hinges on the underwhelming reversal of Peter and Valentine's expectations. It forms both a parody of science fiction that has been rendered outdated by technology, and also a parody of the expectations well-intentioned people have going onto the internet to express their opinions. The titles of Peter's blog posts parody the arrogance of internet commentators, with names beginning with things like "Everyone's wrong about In the bottom right corner there are links to other blogs.
One is for Demosthenes, but the other is for FiveThirtyEight , a real political blog that was founded by Nate Silver in , more than a year before this comic was released. It was still owned by Nate in , the year of this comic's release, but in the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online and in July , ESPN announced that it would become the owner. The blog takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college: It is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging.
Nate Silver has been referenced , several times in xkcd, though mainly in the title text, before this comic for instance in Election. Graff is furious that the computer threw the image of Peter into Ender's game. He is arguing with Major Imbu, who seems to be the computer expert.
Graff wants to know why Ender's brothers picture was shown, and Imbu explains that the mind game is between the child and the computer. The computer must think that it will help Ender to see that picture. Graff points out that the photo is a recent one that could not have been taken from any I. Then Graff wonders why Peter is so important to Ender and Imbu admits he has no idea—further, he states, the computer does not either since it is making up the program as it goes along.
This makes Graff feel slightly better, since he is doing the same thing. Meanwhile, Valentine has not forgotten Ender, even though the family moved to Greensboro.
She celebrated his eigth birthday on her own, but what worries her is Peter. He is outwardly normal, but she knows he is still evil inside. What she counts on is that he acts out of nothing but pure self-interest, and there is a certain comfort in that. Valentine knows Peter will never do anything that is not a calculated move designed to help him.
Peter has figured out that Russia is preparing for land war. The Warsaw Pact, which joined the nations together under the threat of the bugger wars.
He realizes that something big is happening in space and that the nations of earth are preparing for its aftermath. That might make Peter a fine soldier, but not a great leader. Which is all kind of hinted in her name: after all, Valentine is a name associated with love. And chocolates for some reason.
But if Peter and Val are really so different, why do they work so well together when they try to take over the world? The fact that Peter is a jackal Yes, they surprise us all when Peter takes on the role of Locke, the moderate conciliator, while Valentine writes as Demosthenes, the rabid nationalist at first.
This switcheroo is super interesting. By contrast, Demosthenes B.
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