Question about Ender's Game
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:44 am
While I was reading Ender's Game I didn't really understand why or how Ender was seeing Peter or Valentine in the mirror. Any ideas??
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See, this is the third theory concerning the roles of the Hive Queen and the Fantasy Game with regard to Jane that I've heard, and none of them completely make sense--this one least of all (sorry.) As I mentioned in this thread, this is something I'm really interested in getting to the bottom of.SPOILER for those who haven't read SotD or Xenocide.
The fact that the computer found a current picture of Peter, and that it was an audience of Peters that cheered Ender on when he "won" the game, was the building of the bridge between Ender and the Hive Queen. I think, anyway...these are just my theories. It was the fact that the Hive Queen was trying to find an emotion in Ender that would be a recognizable and, therefore, controllable. The problem is, the pattern Ender and the Hive Queen created between them was, you know, grabbed by a hugely capable philote and, so...Jane. So THEREFORE, I think that the reason Peter shows up in the mirror (and at the moment of Ender's arguably greatest triumph of 'beating' the Fantasy Game) is because Jane finally comes to herself in some small way, that she chooses to search Earth-side photographs to find a current picture of Peter, because she feels how deeply ingrained Peter really is inside Ender.
Maybe.
In all the times I've read EG, I never made this connection. It seems so obvious now... I can be quite dense sometimes.The last chapter in EG specifically states that the Buggers knew that they were facing an "invincible enemy" so, as a last resort, they tried to contact and enslave the aiua that was killing them. Hence the constant nightmares Ender went through on Eros once the true campaign began.
See, this I absolutely cannot agree with, because it makes a number of assumptions that absolutely make no sense.And they clearly must have been trying to communicate/enslave him before the final campaign, since they were involved with the Fantasy Game when Ender was still in Battle School.
I think I just made an error in the terminology by referring to the Fantasy Game as an aiua. I guess it should more properly be referred to simply as a bunch of twined philotes, but there's no word for a group of philotes with no aiua to control them.I'm also a little confused by your facts 3 and 3b... are they alternatives to each other? They seem to contradict each other, or I'm just not reading them right... 3 says they found an aiua inside the Fantasy Game, and 3b says they called one in from Outside to be the bridge. 3b seems more correct here; the Hive Queen definitely says they called the aiua, and I don't see how the Fantasy Game would have had one before the Hive Queen intervened.
Um, what? I do not follow; I hadn't meant it to assume that. And that thing about the Fantasy Game was just stating my assumption that your facts 3 and 3b were correct. We are most certainly in agreement that the buggers have no notion of battle school and the like.See, this I absolutely cannot agree with, because it makes a number of assumptions that absolutely make no sense.And they clearly must have been trying to communicate/enslave him before the final campaign, since they were involved with the Fantasy Game when Ender was still in Battle School.
It assumes the Buggers know what Battle School is (which implies the assumption that they know what a school is...)