Chapter 4 Enders Game Questions

1. (27) How do the updates from the soldiers at the start of the chapter represent dramatic irony?
2. (28) How do we know that this society is capitalistic?
3. (29) Is there censorship? If so, how do you know?
4. (31) What does Ender do while Graff is speaking to the boys? How does he react to Ender? Why does he react this way?
5. (35) How does Graff view humans?
6. (36) What does Graff say about ‘doing bad things’ as soldiers?
7. What role has Ender been given for the survival of the human species?

Answers:

1)      When the soldiers discuss the future that Ender will experience in the next few months of battle school, dramatic irony is used because the reader knows the future before the protagonist knows.

2)      We get the idea of a capitalistic society when the solider asks for a raise and he gets the idea of the harder he works the more money he makes.

3)      As the reader we aren’t given any evidence of censorship but we can infer that there is censorship because Ender decides not to run in front of the camera and say goodbye to his parents and Valentine.

4)      Ender discovers that he can manipulate gravity to anyway he wanted to so while Graff is talking to the boys Ender laughs at the idea of Graff hanging from the roof. Graff lashes out at Ender for finding something as stupid as that funny. He reacts this way to by tough on the kids and explain to the boys that you can manipulate gravity on however you want to see it.

5)      Graff views humans and free until humanity needs them. Graff also says that humans are tools that others use to stay alive

6)      Graff says that if the other boys see him sucking up to the teacher they will eat him alive and make his life really hard at battle school.

7)      When Ender leaves Gaff and  Anderson talk about ender and they both agree that he is a good kid and they believe he can be great therefore its Graff’s and Andersons job to turn him into the best military commander the world has ever seen.