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Encyclopedia > Valentine Wiggin

Valentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of Ender Wiggin. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is a prolific and best-selling author of numerous genres. ... The Ender Series is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the Enders Game short story, later expanded into a novel with the same title. ... Andrew Ender Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Cards science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Enders Shadow. ...

Valentine was born because the International Fleet decided that the eldest child, Peter, was too brutal for the possiblity of Battle School. The International Fleet then decided to let the Wiggin family bear a girl with the same brilliance as Peter, only milder. However, the girl was too empathic, and too conciliatory for the battleschool program. It was then that they requisitioned Ender. In the science fiction story Enders Game and its sequels, Peter Wiggin is Enders (or Andrews) older brother. ... In the science fiction novel Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit. ... Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, including beliefs, desires and particularly emotions of others. ...


While Ender was away in Battle School, Valentine worked with Peter, writing political commentary on the 'nets. As young children, they took pseudonyms, to gain more influence. Valentine's pseudonym was Demosthenes, while Peter's was Locke. Demosthenes became a paranoid writer about Russian expansion. Through great pathos and demagoguery, Demosthenes was able to acquire a vast popularity. Demosthenes Demosthenes (384 BC – 322 BC) is generally considered the greatest of the Attic orators, and thus the greatest of all Ancient Greek orators. ... John Locke John Locke (August 29, 1632–October 28, 1704) was a 17th-century philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology. ...


After Ender's victory over the Buggers, Valentine forced Peter to let her go off to space because Peter prevented Ender from coming back to Earth so Ender could be safe. Valentine still wrote with her Demosthenes identity, but instead of being paranoid, she wrote about histories of different cultures on different planets, and in addition, she also applied some concepts to all humankind. Under the Demosthenes pseudonym, Valentine developed the 4-tiered Hierarchy of Alienness. The Hierarchy of Alienness is a concept from the Enders Game series of novels written by Orson Scott Card. ...


Valentine Wiggin married Jakt on the planet Trondheim, and 22 years later, she went to Lusitania to help her brother help the Pequeninos. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


Physically, Valentine has been described as having blonde hair. She is two years younger than Peter and three years older than Ender. However, because of the Relativity that occurs while undergoing interstellar travel, how old she is in comparison to Ender or Peter is rendered exempt.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
Alai | Petra Arkanian | Admiral Chamrajnagar | Julian 'Bean' Delphiki | Achilles de Flandres
Hyrum Graff | Jane | Bonzo Madrid | Han Qing-jao | Si Wang-mu | Mazer Rackham
Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin | John Paul Wiggin | Peter Wiggin | Theresa Wiggin | Valentine Wiggin
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Valentine Wiggin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (564 words)
She used the gambit in the hopes that Peter would realize that if the record came out it would not necessarily convict him of anything, but it would be a damaging enough record to keep him out of politics, a realm he wished desperately to enter.
During this time, Valentine recognized that Peter often was trying to manipulate her for his own purposes, though Valentine felt like she was maniupulating Peter as well.
Valentine still wrote with her Demosthenes identity, but instead of being paranoid, she wrote about histories of different cultures on different planets, and in addition, she also applied some concepts to all humankind.
Valentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (198 words)
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