Chapter two: Peter

Events

• Meet Peter
• Peter’s mad because Ender got closer to being in the Battle School than he did
• Ender and Peter play Buggers and Astronauts
  • Ender is capable of imagining that he’s a bugger, calling Peter “slimy” (9)
• Peter threatens to kill Ender and Valentine
• Ender imagines killing Peter just like he killed Stilson “Ender…thought of Stilson…crunch into his body…this is who should have gotten it” (10)

Quotes

• The narrator says, “Ender did not see Peter … as grown-ups saw” (8) This is a way of seeing him
• Valentine tells Peter  “You want to be in Government someday” (10). This is our first hint about him becoming Locke
• The narrator says, “Peter was a murderer at heart, and nobody knew it but Valentine and Ender” (10) Hey, this info could be useful in lots of ways