AuntyLisa'sBeloveds: Prompt #1

In Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" the protagonist, Ender Wiggin leaves home at the age of six to go and spend the rest of his childhood at an "International Fleet" space station where he is to be trained to fight against alien "buggers" in a war to save the planet Earth from their invasion. When Ender leaves home he leaves behind an older brother and sister named Peter and Valentine. The two are foils to each other, but together they complete the character that is Ender Wiggin. All three of the Wiggin children are geniuses and wise beyond their years and each of Ender's siblings symbolizes an extreme in his own personality: Valentine as the good, and Peter as the evil.
Ender's older sister, Valentine is the only member of his family that truly cares for Ender, and shows no disdain towards him. She plays a similar role to a guardian angel and loves him more like a mother would than a sister. When Peter torments him, Valentine consoles him. While Ender grows to abhor Peter, he grows that much more to love Valentine. Throughout the novel Ender shows himself several times to be a reflection of his siblings. Valentine symbolizes the good in Ender. The only time he is happy is when he thinks about her. Ender uses his sister as a means to staying good and not letting his darker side manifest for fear of becoming like his brother.
Peter is Ender's antagonist. Ender is reminded constantly of the things that peter did to him when he still lived on Earth. Whenever Ender is forced to use physical contact to defend himself (a scenario which always ends with him brutally defeating his opponent and in some cases killing them) he reminds himself that he is becoming more like Peter and hates himself because of it. Ender makes a point in the novel of not becoming like his brother and runs away in his mind to the thought of Valentine whenever a situation arises where he might act the way his brother would. Peter symbolizes the evil in Ender.
Throughout the novel Ender grows more and more conscious of the fact that he reflects the behavior of his brother and sister, and there comes a point when he sets out not to reflect either one of them. But one thing is for sure: Valentine and Peter together are Ender Wiggin and the more he tried to avoid becoming more like one and less like the other, the more he realized that the only way he would truly be good is when he began to be himself.