One of the launchies in his army got Ender's attention - Bean , who reminded Ender of himself at a younger age. Ender's Dragon Army was undefeatable in the Battle Room, beating every single army it went up against. One of these armies was Salamander Army, still commanded by Bonzo Madrid. After his defeat by Ender, he became infuriated. Many people cautioned Ender that his life was in danger, but he brushed it off. When Bonzo and seven other boys, including Bernard, ambushed Ender in the showers, Ender shamed Bonzo into fighting him one on one, subsequently defeating him.
Bonzo later died from his injuries. Ender seemed to be aware of this despite the fact nobody told him, and refused to participate in Battle School any longer. He returned to Earth with Graff, and lived on a lake for several weeks. Graff came to the Wiggin household, requesting that Valentine Wiggin come with him to convince Ender to continue with Battle School. Valentine agreed, and visited Ender on the lake. She eventually persuaded Ender to go on with his training, and he and Graff returned to space.
Ender went to Command School on the asteroid Eros. He was introduced to the simulator , where he was to practice commanding the human fleet heading to the Formic Homeworld. He was taught about strategy, and how the Formics thought. After practicing on the simulator alone for a few weeks, he began to practice with his Jeesh , assigning them certain commander roles on the simulator. The day of the "Graduation Battle", Ender and his Jeesh were faced against an insurmountable Formic fleet.
As soon as he realized he could not win, Ender decided to use the Molecular Disruption Device on the Formic planet. This act destroyed the planet and the Formic fleet. Ender and the Jeesh celebrated, believing they had just won their final simulated battle of Command School. He was then informed by Graff that the battle was in fact real, not a simulation. The realization that he had annihilated a sentient species dawned dark upon Ender, and he passed out for 5 days.
After the League War was settled and the political climate of Earth had calmed down, the International Fleet gave Ender the rank of Admiral, offering him the position of governor of a colony. He accepted, and prepared to leave on a starship to Colony 1, later renamed Shakespeare. Valentine arrived at Eros and told Ender that it was she, as Demosthenes, who had seen to his assignment in the colonies and inability to return to Earth, in order to keep him free from Peter and other governments that sought to use him.
She had come to Eros to join him on the first colony vessel. Ender was glad to see Valentine, but he had no idea that she and Peter had been so manipulative on the world stage.
As the IFcoltrans1 departed from Earth, Ender met with the ship's commander, Admiral Quincy Morgan , advising the officer that he would not interfere with any operations on the ship. Ender made the point that he had no authority as governor until he arrived at Shakespeare. This reassured Admiral Morgan, as he had been secretly planning to usurp Ender as governor when the ship reached its destination. Ender spent his time aboard the ship getting to know the passengers who would soon be his fellow colonists; after all, if he was to be their governor, he wanted to know them as well as possible.
Among them were Dorabella and Alessandra Toscano , a mother and daughter from Italy. Dorabella wanted her daughter, Alessandra, to marry Ender. Ender knew that was her intent, but did not betray this knowledge. At some point during the journey, Ender communicated via ansible with Dabeet Ochoa , a student at the new Fleet School , after Graff asked him to.
He gave him advice for what to do about his situation. Ender, along with Dorabella and her daughter, planned a reading of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew on board the ship.
The play reading drew Admiral Morgan's anger, bringing Ender and him into another confrontation. Morgan believed Ender was plotting mutiny by holding the play reading, which he figured was just a clever cover up. He was more convinced of this when a large message from Earth interfered with the ship's communications. Morgan brought Ender to his office and accused him of his supposed mutiny. The message, it turned out, was actually from Peter Wiggin to Valentine, updating her on Peter's rise to Hegemon of Earth.
Valentine arrived and explained the message to Morgan, who then allowed the play to go on, even agreeing to attend. During the play, Ender performed opposite Alessandra Toscano, which increased Alessandra's affection for the future governor. Upon their arrival at Shakespeare, Ender interrupted Morgan's planned ceremony on the surface of Shakespeare, receiving a hero's welcome from the original colonists, who he had commanded during the Third Invasion. Ender gave Morgan a note from Hyrum Graff and the new Polemarch Bakossi Wuri , warning Morgan not to interfere with Ender's position as both governor and a superior officer or he would face charges of mutiny upon his return to Earth.
Morgan left Shakespeare, defeated by Ender's strategy and tactics before the flight had left the solar system, and Ender began his duties as governor. Ender also gave Alessandra the confidence to leave her mother on the spaceship and stay on Shakespeare, too. The two would never be lovers, but Alessandra was grateful to be free of her mother's influence forever.
Almost immediately after arriving at Shakespeare, Ender learned that a species of Formic-like creatures called Gold Bugs had been discovered. He was saddened to learn that there were no Formics on the world.
More comfortable in his position as governor, Ender wrote a letter to his aged parents. It was a heartfelt communication, the first he'd had with them since the age of six.
After two years on the planet, he learned from Hyrum Graff that a new colony ship was headed his way, diverted from their original route heading to Colony IX. He was instructed to find a new place on the planet for them to settle. Traveling with eleven-year-old Abra Tolo , Ender discovered a grassy hill.
He recognized it as having been re-created from his extended play of the Mind Game. Ender explored the area, discovered a Hive Queen cocoon, then realized the Formics had left it there for him to find. Ender could communicate with the Hive Queen mind-to-mind; he promised to care for the alien forever. He wrote a book about the Formic Wars from the perspective of the Formics.
The book spread throughout the human worlds, influencing people's opinions on Ender. It later changed his public image from war hero to war criminal. Realizing who wrote the Hive Queen, Peter Wiggin, who at this point had become Hegemon of Earth, sent a message to Valentine, asking "If he can speak for another species, he can speak for me. Ender wrote another book under the same alias, called The Hegemon. On the same planet lived a boy named Randall Firth , who was the ninth child of Bean and Petra Arkanian.
Randall had caused some problems for Ganges and its governor. During Ender and Valentine's journey, Ender had decided to stay in Stasis , while Valentine opted to write a history of Shakespeare colony. Upon arrival at Ganges, Ender sought out Randall, hoping to tell him about his real parents.
Their confrontation grew violent as Ender tried to tell Randall of his true parentage. Randall was disgusted at the thought that his " father's " killer was his real father. Even though Firth nearly killed Ender during their confrontation, he eventually came to accept that Ender was telling the truth. Ender soon left Ganges to travel to other worlds, with Valentine by his side, carrying the Hive Queen with him. He began to discontinue the use of the name Ender, which was steadily becoming a sort of profanity due to his crime of Xenocide , instead using his birth name, Andrew.
After Andrew left Ganges, he and Valentine traveled to various planets including Helvetica , and others not specified. About years after the Xenocide , Andrew turned twenty due to the relativistic effects of interstellar travel. At this age, he had to start paying taxes to Starways Congress. He and Valentine disembarked on the planet Sorelledolce to pay off his taxes. He met the tax man Benedetto , who discovered his identity as Ender the Xenocide, and tried to expose him.
Jane , the evolved computer intelligence, was looking out for Andrew and wiped Benedetto's computer so he could not reveal Andrew as a heinous war criminal. Jane then revealed herself to Andrew and the two formed a friendship. After two weeks on the planet, Andrew left with Valentine and Jane. After leaving Sorelledolce, Andrew and Valentine traveled to Rov , where citizens of the planet first saw Andrew wearing the Cifi unit in his ear that connected him to Jane.
And then, in that very moment when I love them […] I destroy them. Wow, now that's intense. Sounds like Ender can both love something and kill it. Was Graff wrong about Ender? Would Ender's compassion truly have kept him from killing the buggers if he knew the battle was real?
We have it from two angles. No one can blame Ender" No one can deny that with both Stilson and Bonzo, Ender didn't pick the fight. And at least with Bonzo, the guy wanted Ender dead. During the trial at the end of the book, you'll also notice that when the jury sees the full videos of these fights, they don't blame Ender. Evidence 2: Ender was tricked into killing the buggers. He wouldn't have done it otherwise. When Ender realizes what he has done — that he has destroyed not only the bugger army, but also their children — he's horrified:.
I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it! So in Ender's Game, though I assign responsibility for the near-destruction of the Hive Queen and Ender takes it upon himself , I do not assign blame, because I don't consider there to be any blame. You can't be held responsible for not knowing what you could not know at the time of a crucial decision. You probably noticed that Graff loves to gush about Ender.
Don't believe us? Check out 4. Anderson and Mazer also think he's a nice and compassionate kid. These are the men who have spent the most time with him, right? The person who seems to be hardest on Ender is Ender himself. Should we trust Ender the most or the least? He may just be so terrified of being like Peter that he blows many of his more aggressive feelings out of proportion.
Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Orson Scott Card. Previous Next. Ender Wiggin Ender a. Ender's Always Had It Rough Ender is the third child in a future Earth where most people and most governments think that two kids are enough.
Underdog, but Always the Best You know, when Superman was first invented, readers had fun seeing how he could do amazing things, but then they got bored when they saw that nothing could hurt him. Ender's Big Fear: "I am just like Peter. On Eros Ender does his best to help out, although ironically no one thinks he can be of much use in peacetime. He learns to suggest ideas through others, since he does not care about reputation but merely getting things done.
Valentine comes to him and tells him that Peter is in control of the earth and that he can never go home. Ender realizes that Peter would use Ender if Ender ever returned to earth. She is going on the first colonization ship to the bugger worlds and wants Ender to come along—he is to be governor of the first colony if he agrees. Ender does not want to populate worlds whose owners he killed.
Valentine sees that he thinks she is trying to manipulate him and tells him that no one has a free life to live, so the least he can do is choose a path put forth by one who loves him.
Ender decides to go, but tells her that the reason is to try to repay the buggers by learning about their past. The colony travels to the new world and settles down.
The people begin to live new lives there, and they are not concerned with what is happening back on Earth. New ships will be coming with other colonists and Ender goes off to find a place for the new colony to settle in. It is then that he stumbles upon landscape that is all too familiar—the giant's corpse and all of his images from the mind game. He follows them to the tower and climbs up to the room with the mirror.
Ender realizes that the buggers must have built all of this for him in order to leave him some sort of message. Behind the mirror Ender finds the pupa of a bugger queen, and the queen communicates with him. She shows him the images of the battles, from the buggers' point of view, and then sends images to his mind of what he needs to do to let her live again and start a new bugger civilization. Ender figures out that they learned his thoughts through the ansible—it was, after all, a human attempt at mimicking bugger communication—and built this place because he was the only one they knew and the only one who could understand.
She tells him that the buggers did not know that humans were thinking beings. When the buggers figured out that human beings were capable of thought, they did not attack again. The readers of the book form something of a religion on earth, but on the colonies, where people live in worlds that the buggers lived in, the teachings of the book become a veritable religion.
Ender speaks to Peter once who is now in his seventies because the relativistic ride that took two years for the colonists was fifty earth years , and his brother tells him his story.
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