Why does Val get angry with Ender? When Ender discounts the importance of defeating the buggers and says, “If I’m here [on Earth] then I won’t be there [at the bugger war]. In anger over Ender’s nonchalant attitude about the bugger war, Valentine mentions Peter and his abuse of Valentine when she stood up for Ender.

Why do people view Rose de Nose with respect and resentment? – They respect him because he’s an army commander and because he’s Jewish and ever since the IF had been formed the Strategos had been a Jew and hadn’t lost a war.

How does Ender feel about hurting others, even the enemy? that he has to show that he is tuff or else the older kids will forever bother him. He felt terrrible.

The adults are the enemy because they are the puppet masters that are tricking, controlling, and manipulating a bunch of children. To men like Graff, Anderson, and even Mazer Rackham, the children are basically tools. Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.

So there is an age gap of around 8 years between Bean and Petra. Bean is probably either 12 or 13 when he marries Petra, who would be 20 or 21.

In Salamander Army Ender is befriended by Petra Arkanian, an outcast herself, and is immediately disliked by Bonzo Madrid. Petra tells Ender she will teach him how to fight in the battleroom. Petra does so, and also tells him that they can control gravity and do many things that the adults do not tell them about.

Petra is the best sharpshooter and something of a rebel, so she takes Ender under her wing and teaches him how to shoot when he’s in Salamander Army. She later becomes Ender’s commander when he’s a toon leader in Phoenix Army; and even later, she becomes a squadron leader in the final battles.