Question 6

• please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
This passage is significant to me because I truly agree in this quote. When I read this quote, it reminds me of another passage that is related to this quote. As you fight each other, you get to know more about the enemy. Ender is able to understand his enemies better than anyone else, but once he understands them he destroys them. With such tremendous empathy, even in coming to understand his worst enemies Ender loves them. At the end of the book, when Ender comes to truly understand the buggers, he is able to try to help them. He has already done them great harm, but now he can be happy because he has a chance to undo what he did to them.
I think this is real love and compassion. This is the most precious mind that mankind has, but some people think this as trash so there are always fighting and wars occurring every place around the earth. In the Bible, God says to love your enemies. Ender had these characteristics. I half agree that it’s hard to understand somebody, but half disagree too because as you get to know a person, you get to understand all the personalities that the person has. Especially if there’s love, it’s more possible!