Ender is characterized as being both similar and different from his brother Peter by his actions being showed when he was confronted by Stilson in chapter one, and when he played “buggers and astronauts” with Peter in chapter two. Ender can accept the fact that he cannot always win, Peter cannot accept this. In chapter one, Ender had gotten his monitor, a device that was able to register his actions and show them to people of the government, taken off. Since people had known that the monitor would see and hear their interactions with Ender, they would either respect him or leave him alone. The monitor had given him benefits of protection. Now that it’s off, people could say or do what they would like to him. (6) Stilson, a boy in his school, was one of the people who decided to take advantage of the opportunity to finally be able to do whatever he would like with Ender. …show more content…
Since Ender decided that he needed “to keep them from taking him in a pack tomorrow,” and had “to win this now, and for all time, or [he’ll] fight it everyday and it’ll get worse and worse,” (7) his reaction was to repeatedly kick Stilson until he was helpless and threaten Stilson’s friends before they could do the same to him. Ender did this to win all the fights that could happen in the future, to prevent them from bullying him everyday from then on. If he kicked Stilson a certain amount of times, giving him pain equivalent to the total amount he would experience if Ender needed to kick him in every fight from then on, Stilson wouldn’t bother him. According to the unspoken rules of manly warfare, this is only something an animal would do. According to Ender, speaking from his interactions with his brother, this was also something Peter would do. (7,8) In chapter two, Ender’s siblings find out that his monitor had gotten taken