Title: Peter and Valentine Wiggin in Ender's Game | Shmoop
Headings: Peter and Valentine Wiggin in Ender's Game
Peter and Valentine Wiggin in Ender's Game
Peter and Valentine Wiggin
Devil and Angel
Interlude: Locke and Demosthenes Take Over the World
We’re Not So Different After All

Content: But then Val spends the middle part of this novel worrying that she’s a lot like Peter after all. So couldn’t we say that Peter and Val work so well together because they’re actually kind of the same too? They’re definitely both genius manipulators. At the very least, we should recognize that Peter ends up doing something that seems very out of character for a jackal: he ends up saving millions of lives by limiting the League war (the war between humans after the buggers are eliminated). Although there are reasons why Peter might want to do that (Peter loves power), it’s much nicer than, you know, threatening to kill your siblings (15.86). So has Peter changed? Were we wrong about him at the start of the novel? ( And notice how Card keeps this uncertainty by never letting us hear what Peter thinks.) Meanwhile, Val uses her manipulative skills to make sure Ender can never go home to Earth.