Chapter 6:
1) The purpose of the Giants Game is to try to figure out which of the two drinks the Giant shows isn't poisonous. Ender knew that the game was rigged and that neither of the two drinks shown by the giant would ever not be poisonous. He kicked the giant's eye out and was then sent to fairyland. I don't think that Ender is a murderer because the giant wasn't a real living creature and he didn't want to kill it.
Chapter 7:
1) When Ender told Alai that he would be moving to the Salamander Army, they hugged and said goodbye. Then, Alai kissed Ender on the cheek and whispered, "Salaam." This was an important exchange because whatever the kiss and word meant, it was sacred to Alai either because of his religion or just personally for Alai. It was something that Alai did secretly because he wanted to, and did not need Ender to understand it.
2) When Ender thought about "Just living," he meant that he wanted to go home and live a normal life to be raised like a normal person and not just to be a soldier in the battle against the buggers.Ender did this only for a brief time as a young six year-old, but besides that, he didn't get to live much of a normal life. If I were Ender, I would feel sad to have missed out on a normal child hood and would be curious to know what it's like to be able to gradually grow up with friends and family at home.
3) Petra stood up for Ender when he was bullied by Bonzo and took him to the battle room to help him learn how to shoot. Their friendship was a hindrance to Ender because him being an outsider, hanging out with another outsider makes them even more separated from the group. They also disobeyed Bonzo when Petra took him to the battle room to learn how to shoot.
4) Ender learns from Bonzo that to be a leader, he must not show any weakness in front of the group. An example of this is when Ender forced Bonzo to let him teach his friends how to shoot otherwise, he claimed to get Bonzo iced. Instead of surrendering to Ender in front of the whole army, Bonzo pretended to change his mind the next day. Bonzo also showed signs of authority by only letting others speak with permission and hurting people when they disobeyed. As Petra spoke out of turn one time, he slapped her across the face.
Chapter 8:
1)When Graff said, "Ender Wiggen is ten times smarter and stronger than I am," he meant that he could do anything to Ender or put him in any situation and Ender could somehow figure out what to do, but Graff knew that he could never do the things that Ender did.
2) The two demands, "so teach me," and "so learn," are significant because when one is taught, they don't learn as well as they might if they learn it themselves. The understanding that a person has with something will be stronger if they figure it out themselves and learn from their mistakes.
3) When Ender attacks the older and bigger boys in the battle room, it shows that when a situation comes up, he knows what to do and uses his brain to know about null gravity, and what to command his friends to do. It shows the teachers that Ender would be a good commander.
4) The scene with the snake and Peter's reflection represents the fact that Ender killed the snake, just like he kicked Stilson and injured the boys in the battle room. To see Peter's face, Ender felt like he was a murderer and a bad person. It made him feel like he was his brother.
5) The computer was intelligent enough to trace Peter out of Ender's memory.
6) In this paragraph, Ender was saying how the part of him that is violent and that does things he doesn't like is what the teachers of the battle school try to bring out of him and he feels used. It isn't fair how he is being taken advantage of and has to be put in situations that force him to do things he wouldn't want to do.
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