Orson Scott CardPeter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
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The boy, Peter, was a child of ten and a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. His parents had been murdered and he was almost dead from starvation. The boy was trying to convince the girl that her father's political beliefs were wrong. She was someone who believed that her father’s political beliefs were wrong.
In the midst of the confusion, the boy said, “They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
Source: Enders Game
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