Ender started his own training sessions during free time in the Battle Room, inviting various launches and members of other armies. The Battle School staff noticed Ender's successes and gave him an army of his own. He became the commander of Dragon Army. Dragon Army's name had been retired because of its record as an army that had never won a battle.
Ender was given 40 Battle Schoolers for his army, almost all of them fresh launchies. A few were veterans from other armies, but weren't very good. 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. In the film, Bean is simply a good-natured fighter. In the end, the race of "buggers" are able to communicate to Ender via one remaining queen on the planet where he fought the battle.
One small life form is waiting to save the race, and Ender sets out to find the race a new home, making a small amends to the destruction he caused. Jessica Rawden. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands.
Before being chosen Ender wears a unique monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, nor did they have it for as long as Ender, and Peter will never forgive Ender for this.
Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers. Battle School is located on a ship far from earth. On the flight there Ender demonstrates his ability to brilliantly visualize gravitational effects, and Graff begins to isolate him from his fellow classmates.
Ender lives with the new recruits, called Launchies. He makes a few friends among the recruits and ends his isolation, although his brilliance will never cease causing resentment. Inside the battleroom, Ender figures out how to maneuver in null gravity, along with another recruit named Alai. Ender and Alai become friends, and this helps Ender fit in with the rest of the group. Ender manages to get farther in one of the computer games, called the mind game, than anyone ever had before him, and although he does not know, the military commanders take notice.
Ender is abruptly promoted to Salamander Army. There Ender is befriended by Petra Arkanian, the only girl in the army. The army commander, Bonzo Madrid, does not like Ender and does not want him around.
Ender was put on a shuttle to go to Battle School , which was actually a space station orbiting Earth. After some initial difficulties with his launch group created by Colonel Hyrum Graff , Ender became friends with Alai. Bonzo refused to allow Ender to participate in battles, but Petra Arkanian helped Ender learn basic combat skills. Bonzo's refusal to allow Ender to participate and Ender's own actions caused him to become the highest ranked soldier in Battle School; which helped Bonzo transfer Ender to Rat Army , commanded by Rose The Nose.
Upon his arrival, Ender was placed in Dink Meeker's toon. The older student Dink began to look after Ender.
Meanwhile, Ender's psychological development was monitored by the Mind Game , a complex computer game embedded in the school's computer system. Meanwhile, his two siblings Valentine and Peter continued their own unique lives. Every bit as intelligent as their brother, but of differing temperaments, they began to integrate themselves into the political discussions on The Nets. Starting as anonymous unknowns, they began to earn respect from the international community by presenting insightful political analysis.
Eventually, they adopted the personas Locke and Demosthenes , Peter writing Locke, the peaceful compromise-oriented writer, and Valentine being forced to write Demosthenes, a rabble-rouser.
Both personas began to gain international status. Ender went through his classes quickly and was soon given his own army, Dragon Army , which was supposedly taboo or cursed. He did not personally know any of his soldiers, and they were all launchies new students or soldiers that other commanders were trying to trade away.
Ender organized his army strangely, having five toons of eight rather than four toons of ten, and having each toon split into two sub toons. He taught his army that the enemy's gate was down, how to freeze their own legs and use them as shields when shooting between them, and how to think for themselves rather than to rely on him for instructions and formations for structure.
Ender and his army won every battle they fought in, each more difficult than the last as the Battle School teachers turned the rules on their head. Eventually he was forced to face Salamander Army, still commanded by Bonzo Madrid, who had been silently hating Ender for years.
After Dragon Army defeated Salamander easily, Bonzo's rage became uncontrollable. Ender realized that he didn't necessarily need to freeze the opposing armies' soldiers like usual; he allowed his army to be slaughtered in order to sneak 5 soldiers into the enemy's gate, thus winning the battle. After this "cheat" of a win, the Battle School teachers changed the rules to make sure such a thing never happens again.
Ender returned to his room, and decided to go to the showers. There, he was confronted by Bonzo Madrid and some of his thugs; Ender convinced him to face him one on one, but Bonzo was soon deeply injured by Ender. Ender, horrified at what he had done, refused to participate any longer in Battle School.
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