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// For your first literature circles you will create a general overview of your novel. On this home page please create the following. // // Remember be creative, use color, images and sound! // 1. Setting- time, place, mood, and environment

Time- Very far future Place- the Battle School, in orbit of the Earth Mood- Very grim, as alien bugs threaten to invade Environment- Space

2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin:

The hope for humanity against the alien menace. He is a “Third”, a third child who should really be illegal, but he was authorized as an experiment to find someone who could defeat the buggers (aliens) after his brother turned out to be too ruthless and his sister turned out to be too nice. You could compare him to the baby bear’s bowl of porridge in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. He is sent to Command School early, where he runs what he thinks are simulations of battling buggers. Really, though, he is tricked into believing these are just simulations, when really they are real battles, and he exterminates the bugger race. "

Peter Wiggin:

Ender’s older brother, Peter Wiggin was too ruthless to be the general that would lead the invasion against bugger-kind. He is ruthless and brilliant but also sadistic. He flays squirrels alive. He mellows in the course of the book and adopts the personality of Locke, the type of person who would be a peacemaker rather than a warmonger, which is not originally like Peter, but Locke’s personality grows on Peter and he mellows down. At the end of the book, Peter is elected Hegemon of Earth. "

Colonel Graff: Colonel Graff is the person in charge of the experiment of Ender Wiggin. He accompanies him throughout Ender’s military career. He has some affection for Ender, even though he isolates him from most of the rest of the other cadets. "

Valentine Wiggin:

Ender’s older sister, Valentine Wiggin was too nice to be the leader of the invasion against bugger-kind. She is Ender’s protector from Peter at the beginning of the book. She adopts the personality of Demosthenes, a warmonger rather than a peacemaker, who is not like Valentine, but as like Locke’s personality growing on Peter, Demosthenes’ personality grows on Valentine, something she fears heavily. "

Ender's being a Third considered negative is because there is a law limiting parents to two children, due to overpopulation. This tells us that society has expanded a very great deal.

Ender is diffrerent because he has the right mix of ruthlessness and compassion that would help him defeat the buggers (aliens). Not everyone's battle School experience is like his because nobody but Ender fights a daily battle, let alone fighting two armies in one battle and still never losing.

The buggers are the alien menace that threatens to destroy humanity as we speak. They are named that way because they look like bugs. They operate on a "hive mind" system; One queen bugger controls many smaller "worker" (or in this case, "soldiers") buggers.

He wants to "just live" because he does not want the stress of having the fate of humanity resting on his shoulders.