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The Battlegrounds of Emotion Hannah Correa English II Honors Ms. Doyle 1 March 2024 In the American Civil War, more than 600,000 people died, which is a greater number than those who died in WWI and WWII combined (Mintz). Andersonville (the Confederacy’s prison for the Yankhees) alone killed 25,000 young men in the first three months of 1864 (McElroy 646). The American Civil War represents just one of the tragic wars that have cut a bloody gash through the history of mankind. Such conflicts frequently beg the question: Why? Why do such horrors haunt humanity’s past, and why do those horrors continue to haunt humanity’s present and future? From birth humanity is taught the virtuous principles of love, generosity, and compassion towards …show more content…

And so, he is rejected from Battle School. Orson Scott Card uses Peter to express the conflict that exists within the hearts of individuals between a show of force and its moral consequences, and Peter is a testimony of the detriments of neglecting careful consideration of committing terrible acts. Orson Scott Card also uses the perspective and characterization of Valentine to represent the theme, but unlike Peter, she represents the other side of the conflict created by war, the moral consequences of a show of force. Unlike Peter, Card allows the reader to see into Valentine’s mind, which helps the reader understand how empathetic she is. Years after Ender had left Valentine and the rest of his family for Battle School, Valentine recalls, “But [she] had not forgotten him. She did not let her parents know, and above all never hinted to Peter how often she thought about Ender, how often she wrote him letters that she knew he would not answer” (123). Card’s allowance of the reader into Valentine’s mind creates a unique perspective that offers a greater understanding of empathy and how that emotion plays into the moral consequences of force. Card further demonstrates Valentine’s empathy and love by characterizing her through her words. In Ender’s lowest moment, when he was struggling to come to terms with

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Ender’s sister keeps him from getting bullied by his older brother, and she protects Ender whenever she can. Ender keeps going through his training so he can go back and see her. He doesn’t receive any letters from her and thinks she has forgotten about him. The next time Ender sees Valentine, he is tired of fighting and wants to stop. This is when Valentine says, “We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game."

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As Ender gets in the car that waited silently in the corridor, he heard Valentine’s anguished cry “ Come back to me I love you forever”(Pg. 26 Orson Scott Card) This is important because the only reason why Ender went to battle school is because he loved Valentine and didn't want to see her get hurt. Ender loved Val very deeply and when Ender heard Valentine say “ Come back to me I love you forever” he fought stronger and harder. Enders compassion is the element that generates his success as a human being.

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The United States Civil War is possible one of the most meaningful, bloodstained and controversial war fought in American history. Northern Americans against Southern Americans fought against one another for a variety of motives. These motives aroused from a wide range of ideologies that stirred around the states. In James M. McPherson’s What they fought for: 1861-1865, he analyzes the Union and Confederate soldier’s morale and ideological components through the letters they wrote to love ones while at war. While, John WhiteClay Chambers and G. Kurt Piehler depict Civil War soldiers through their letters detailing the agonizing battles of war in Major Problems in American Military History.

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The chapter begins with a conversation about the other Wiggin child, Valentine, specifically for the reason that the two anonymous characters need Ender to go with them and they fear that Ender’s love for Valentine will prevent him from leaving. The conversation conveys the idea that it is imperative for one of them to retrieve Ender for sake of success. The reader reenters Ender’s life while he is at the breakfast table preoccupied with his thoughts about how school is going to turn out considering the fact with Stilson. While pondering, a man wearing an International Fleet (I.F) uniform approaches interrupting breakfast; he begins to speak with the parents then calls Ender into the room, causing Peter to get angry in the hopes that it is

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“He didn’t know what to say, and he was afraid to reveal himself to be any more monstrous than his actions had made him out to be… Ender couldn’t help it, he was too afraid, too ashamed of his own acts; though he tried not to, he cried again.” (19) Ender is immensely terrified of becoming a monster; his remorse and shame caused by his horrific actions increases his fear. However, his guilt-enforced tears show that even though his actions were callous, Ender’s possession of kindness is unscathed. The humanity Ender shows through the tears he failed to stop is what prevents his worse nightmare from coming true.

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Ender and Valentine are at his cabin talking about whether or not Ender should save humanity. Valentine simply tells Ender, “If you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault. You killed us all” (282). With pressure on Ender to protect Earth from the buggers coming from all directions the last person he wanted to hear that from was Valentine. Her words provided Ender help in making a decision, but also put him in the position to access more power because of the role he is about to take on.

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Though Valentine’s actual motive for attempting to make contact with his ticklish knee was to console him, Ender considered it an act of peril, judging Valentine’s intention as harm to him. As an unintended consequence, Valentine’s perception of Ender has significantly modified for the worse. “A very small, fragile boy who needed her protection. Not this cold-eyed, dark-skinned manling who kills wasps with his fingers.” Ender’s colossal character change essentially reveals what Card inevitably understood he would become: a clone of Peter’s daunting characteristics.

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Not one of them. Not someone you embrace and whisper Salaam in his ear. Now he was master soldier, and he was completely, utterly alone” (P5). This isolation allows Ender to be able to study and understand his soldiers and his rivals for the Battle Room. The Game and isolation allows, “Ender’s deep empathy is what makes him both a powerful leader and a powerful enemy: his troops follow him and he understands the foe”, to emerge (N15,W2).

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