Ender's Game Blogpost #1

     In my group's first socratic seminar we talked a lot about Peter's , Ender's brother, affect on Ender throughout the book. An idea that came up was the Ender was afraid of being like Peter and is afraid of Peter because Peter is the only real evil Ender has ever been exposed to. When Ender is asked if he wants to go to Battle School by Graff, the man who tries to recruit Ender, Ender thinks of everyone he has to leave, but doesn't mention that he is leaving because he wants to get away from Peter. It shows us that although Peter is such a prominent figure in Ender's childhood, Ender tries to never think of Peter.
     Another thing we talked about was what Dink Meeker had said. Dink is a toonleader in the Rat Army.  Dink talks about how no matter what happens in Battle School and no matter how many fights they win in the  competitions, all the teachers are doing is making each army build hate for each other and nothing real is coming out of this hate. Dink talks about how the fat that the buggers are still attacking Earth is not actually real because the first and second invasions were so long ago. He even talks about why these people are keeping it away from the people on Earth and it's because if people start to know about this fraud, the people will lose control of the government and will end up not having as many resources and other things.
     Although our group didn't talk much about this, I think this is significant in Ender's growth. Ender doesn't realize that everyone around him are kids, but are acting like adults. He doesn't realize that Battle School and the government are changing him and other kids to be much more mature and much more developed than even an adult can be. Ender doesn't believe what Dink says that the third invasion may not be real even though there is a lot of logic behind what he had  said. This proves that even though Battle School can change the maturity of a child, it can never change the personality of one or the belief system that a child will always have, something like naivety.