Relations are really important to have in life, as it lets you share your life with someone. Without relations a person doesn\u2019t have an identity and becomes very lonely. In the book Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card, a story has been told about a young man named Andrew Wiggin a.k.a. Ender. Being a third child wasn\u2019t easy for Ender, because people around him always misunderstood or underestimated him, which caused problems in his relationships. In these situations, his sister, Valentine, was the only one who supported him. Throughout the book he faced many problems, mainly isolation. In these times he would look up to no one but her sister. Valentine always supported, cared and fought for Ender, and that\u2019s what made their relationship grow stronger.<\/p>\n
Since Valentine cares for Ender very much, she acts like Ender\u2019s mother throughout the book. Whenever there is a fight between Ender and Peter, his older brother, Valentine is the one who brings the fight to an end just like a mother. Everyone in the novel thinks that Valentine is the caretaker of Ender because when Ender gets his monitor removed, Valentine acts as his monitor. Valentine protects Ender from Peter by being Ender\u2019s shadow. Noticing this behavior, Peter threatens Valentine, \u201cYou are his mother now, you better watch him, day and night. You better be there.\u201d (Card 13) This scene takes place in chapter 2, when Peter, Ender and Valentine are playing games and Peter beats up Ender. Valentine always supported and fought for Ender. She is the only person Ender was related to.<\/p>\n
But their relationship becomes weaker when Ender decides to go to the battle school. The distance between earth and the battle school was now visible in Ender\u2019s and Valentine\u2019s relationship. This distance in their relationship, on the bright side, was a good idea because it helps Ender concentrate at battle school and make it to the command fleet. Valentine was never able to forget Ender and therefore writes letters to him every time. She celebrates Ender\u2019s birthdays all by herself. This proves her one hundred percent commitment towards their relationship. On the other hand, Ender little known about his sister didn\u2019t think about Valentine that much. Due to his own problems at the battle school, he couldn\u2019t write back letters. Few years\u2019 passes, they see each other again. This is when Ender is sent to earth for his vacation. While in the lake talking about their childhood, Valentine questions Ender, \u201cSo we\u2019re strangers now? (Card 235)\u201d Ender answers, \u201cAren\u2019t we, Valentine? (Card 235)\u201d They are completely unaware of each other\u2019s lives but they still remember their childhood. This is the beauty of Ender\u2019s and Valentine\u2019s relationship. After some time spent together they were closer than before.<\/p>\n
Since Ender see\u2019s Valentine as his caretaker he obeys her and returns to the battle school. The gap in their relationship once again increases until the destruction of the buggers. Valentine towards the end gets very manipulative towards Ender and their relationship, \u201cI know what you\u2019re thinking, Ender you\u2019re thinking that I\u2019m trying to control you just as much as Peter or Graff or any others. (Card 280)\u201d This scene occurs when Ender is done with bugger world and wants to go back to the earth, but Valentine refuses to go because Peter was now in charge of the earth. Valentine knew that she would never see Ender again, if Ender went to the Earth and she went to the first colony. And that\u2019s why she tries to convince Ender to stay with her. This proves that she really cares about her little brother and loves him dearly. Valentine is also very cunning and manipulative like Peter. She tries to show Ender that she is not controlling, but she is. Due to Ender\u2019s compassion for people, Valentine wants Ender to be with her forever after the destruction of bugger world.<\/p>\n
After discovering bugger queen, Ender decides to publish a book based on the story said by the bugger queen. Ender had full support of Valentine in publishing Speaker of the dead. She helped him inform people of earth that buggers weren\u2019t really harmful.<\/p>\n
Valentine plays a very important character when it comes to Ender and his relationship, because Ender always obeys her. Valentine is the only person Ender has a good relationship with. The ups and downs always occur in a relationship, but that\u2019s what made their relationship grow stronger. Supporting each other was the key factor in their relationship. In this way Ender and Valentine\u2019s relationship survives through the obstacles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ender and Valentine Relations are really important to have in life, as it lets you share your life with someone. Without relations a person doesn\u2019t have an identity and becomes very lonely. In the book Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card, a story has been told about a young man named Andrew Wiggin a.k.a. Ender. Being a third child wasn\u2019t easy for Ender, because people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-language","tag-ender-and-valentine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glowriters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}