Talk:Peter Wiggin

Split?

Am I the only one who thinks we should split this article into two pieces, one for each Peter? They REALLY aren't the same person, even if they have the same name... Maratanos 22:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Revise

It seems to me that the large paragraph is poorly written and contains too many personal pronouns

I am about to edit the opening statement:

"In the science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels, Peter Wiggin is Ender's (or Andrew's) older brother. They and their sister, Valentine, are extremely intelligent and precocious. The three siblings represent ideals; Peter is ruthless and cruel, Valentine is empathic and kind, and in Ender, the traits are balanced."

Card has mentioned numerous times in interviews that he is not trying to convey ideals through his book. He has explicitly rejected the idea that they represent anything other than what they are. There is no need to say that they "represent ideals" here. Additionally, Peter is only Ruthless and Cruel in the first book. It should say:

"In the science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels, Peter Wiggin is Ender or Andrew Wiggin's older brother. They and their sister, Valentine, are extremely intelligent and precocious. At first, Peter is ruthless and cruel, while Valentine is empathic and kind. Ender has more balanced traits, at least in the view of the IF (International Fleet)"

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card’s name doesn’t even appear in the whole article... I found the spanish version (5 lines) more informative. Herve1729 (talk) 12:16, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. :) Airplaneman ^talk 00:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I take issue with this line:

"At the age of 12, Peter convinces Valentine to use their parents' network identities, and eventually hidden identities that they have obtained for themselves, to submit writings (in the form of blogs) to the world using pseudonyms (Locke for Peter and Demosthenes for Valentine)."

The usage of the term "blog" in this passage seems misleading. At the time that Card was writing, this word didn't even exist. In fact, the Internet, as we know it, was still in an embryonic stage of development, and looked very different from what it is today. Orson Scott Card showed amazing foresight in imagining a "net" that was similar to what we have today, but at the time he wrote the book, there was no such thing as a blog: the "net" that appears in his novels is based entirely upon Card's own imagination, combined with what inspiration he could take from technologies available at the time of the writing.

More to the point: I wish someone would remove this anachronistic reference to "blogs."

Anon, 10/29/2012