Ender's+Game+Central

Nightly Reading Pace:
ch. 1-2, ch. 3-4, ch. 5-6, ch. 7, ch. 8, ch. 9, ch. 10, ch. 11, ch. 12, ch. 13, ch. 14 (first half), ch. 14 (second half) ch. 15

==**Notes on //Ender's Game//: first come, first served on signing up for chapter below. Take notes here on the plot and make observations, comments, and insights (under "Notes"). Chapter 1 sample by Ms.Till. On the day the reading is due, you'll be leading the discussion.**==


 * Chapter 1 THIRD** - Period 4 Facilitator: **Eric** Period 5 Facilitator: **Ms. Till**
 * PLOT**: Chapter 1 starts with //"fancy font,"// a conversation between two unknown adult characters about Ender; Ender is a "chosen one" after his siblings fell short. The story moves to Ender in a doctor's office getting his monitor removed. The monitor allows the //fancy font// people to see, hear and feel what the wearer experiences; however, at this point we do not know the function of the monitor, just that everybody gets one and that it is normally taken off when kids are young, i.e. at three years of age. Ender is six. When his monitor is removed, Ender has a seizure and needs to be sedated; it is clear the dangerous process could "turn off" his brain. Afterwards, he returns to school foggy-minded where we get a glimpse of how other children treat him, which is like an outcast. On the walk to the bus stop, a bully, Stilson, and his gang harass Ender, but Ender fights back. First he humiliates the group into making the fight one on one; then, he brutally beats Stilson not only to win this fight, but to prevent further conflict with this gang. Later, Ender cries because he acted just like his brother.
 * NOTES:** The monitor removal scene reveals that Ender had his monitor longer than usual, which means he is/was particularly promising. The school scene shows that other kids are not fond of Ender because he is a "third" (couples are only allowed to have two children, presumably for population control). The government allowed Ender to be born as an experiment since his siblings had shown so much potential. In the fight scene with Stilson, we see that Ender is capable of protecting himself without help. He is also very mature for a six year old: he understands the unwritten rules of war (i.e., don't hit someone when he is down). Even thought he understands the rules, he goes against them to protect himself in the future as well. Strategic mind! Ender cries because he doesn't want to be like Peter who is physical abusive and brutal.

Chapter 2 PETER - Period 4 Facilitator: Drew Period 5 Facilitator: **Westin <3 ** PLOT:Chapter 2 begins with the same two adults approving of the way Ender dealt with Stilson. They compare Ender to Mazer Rackham. They are afraid of what Peter might do to him. Their main goal is not to make Ender happy, but to save the world. Valentine, Ender's sister, comforts him over the loss of his monitor. Peter is angry that Ender lasted longer than him with the monitor. Then Peter and Ender play a game called Buggers and Astronauts. Ender is forced to be a bugger and Peter is the astronaut. Peter plays rough with Ender and actually hurts him. Peter tells both Valentine and Ender that he could kill Ender and he isn't afraid to because everyone would just think it was an accident. Peter says that he will eventually someday kill Ender. Peter then says that it was just a joke and that Ender and Valentine are the biggest suckers in the world for believing him. This makes Ender want to fight Peter, just as he did to Stilson. Only Peter and Valentine know that Peter is a murderer at heart. That night Peter walked up to Ender's bed and Ender thinks that Peter will try to kill him, but instead Peter apologizes. For the second time that day, Ender cried. NOTES: The adults still seem to monitor Ender even without the monitor. Mazer Rackham a character who will eventually show up later in the book is mentioned in this chapter, but for now we know pretty much nothing about him. We learn much more about Peter and the actual things he does. Peter is relentless and brutal, and very capable of killing both his siblings. What is this buggers and astronauts game? What is a bugger? Whats so bad about a Third? These are questions that we don't know the answer to this early in the book. We will learn about them later hehehe. Peter is also smart and convincing. He had a big mood swing from anger to laughter. Peter threatens to kill Ender. At the end of the chapter, Peter apologizes. I wonder if he really means it or if he is just faking his love for Ender.

Chapter 3 GRAFF- Period 4 Facilitator:**Rebecca ** Period 5 Facilitator: **Chad ** PLOT: In the fancy font, the two people are talking about Ender's relationship with Valentine. They say that she is the obstable that they need to address in order to persuade Ender to going to Battle School. "Persuade him to come with us more than he want to stay with her." Colonel Graff comes to Enders house to enlist him in Battle School. Graff gives Ender the __choice__ to come to Battle School. Ender feels that if he wasn't born to go to Battle School, he has no purpose in life. Graff tells Ender, "Your presence in this house is a constant disruption. A source of tension." He continues to say that it's not what Ender //does// that causes tension, but just his being there, as a third. but Ender decides to go to Battle School and leaves with Graff. NOTES: Ender loves his family very much and they love him, but he realizes that being a __Third__ is such a burden on them. "It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?" In the book's setting, families were allowed to have only two children. Anymore than the allotted amount, would be illegal. This is the main reason why he decided to leave with Graff. Ender's only regret is that he had to leave Valentine, his loving sister. We also get to know Ender's family's background - how his parents were raised from "noncompliant families" and how having Ender - a third - goes against everything that they've done to make up for their past.

Chapter 4 LAUNCH- Period 4 Facilitator: Camille :P Period 5 Facilitator: **Richele ** PLOT: Ender is on his way to battle school and is introduced to all the rules and concepts. Ender already understands the concept of not having any gravity, and it causes Colonel Graff to tell the other boys there that Ender will be a commander while they're still in diapers at battle school. The boys then tease Ender and he realizes that Graff set him up. So, when one boy is bothering him, he flips him in the air and makes him crash against a wall so he breaks his arm. But he didn't mean to hurt the boy buy now Ender starts to think that he is like Peter, and then tells Colonel Graff that he thought he was his friend but Graff tells him that his job is to make the best soldiers in the world, not be friends with them. But we find out that Graff really didn't that he would never be his friend, but he knows that it is for his own good and that it is his job to make him the hero of the third invasion. NOTES: Ender doesn't want to leave Valentine and he wants to say bye to her on the camera but doesn't because he knows its wrong. He's not supposed to be sad. Ender feels confortable with Graff thinking he would have a friend there. From the very start, Ender knows he's not like all the other boys, and already he's made enemies. When Ender breaks the boys arm, he felt the boy deserved it. But then he thinks that he is turning into Peter so he feels bad in the end because he didn't mean to hurt the boy so badly. He know that "when the officer prefers you, the others hate you." Ender realizes that he is on his own. Graff is hoping that Ender really is the one that will save them all.

Chapter 5 GAMES - Period 4 Facilitator: //__**Bryan**__// Period 5 Facilitator: Aya PLOT: By the time Ender arrives, all the bunks are taken except for the bottom bunk right by the door. Ender pretends he wanted that bunk and thanks everyone for letting him have the best position. The boys in the launch meet Dap, their "mom" for the next few months. At dinner, Ender meets Mick, who asks Ender if he is the bugger in the launch and gives Ender advise which is to make friends and become a leader. Later on in the game room, Ender plays a game against one of the older boys and wins. This was a huge confidence boost for Ender, it also let all the other boys know "I'm Ender Wiggin and you can't mess with me" which set up Ender for the future. Shen, a small and easily needled boy is always bring teased by Bernard, but Ender does not say anything because he does not want Shen to think that he is trying to start his own gang. Yet, Ender aids Shen by sending a message, that insulted Bernard, to everyone from "God". Ender knew that the teachers made the system easy to break because they wanted to see who was smart and courageous enough to try. In the end, Ender was no longer isolated and the "war was just beginning". NOTES: Ender did not feel sorry for Bernard because he was like Stilson and was already gathering his gang. Ender misses his family, but no matter how sad he is, tears do not come out. He thanks Peter for teaching him how to hide his feelings. After winning the game, Ender feels that he would be able to survive school. Ender was winning the war through technology and Bernard's attempt to be the leader of the room was broken. Ender was no longer alone.

Chapter 6 THE GIANT'S DRINK - Period 4 Facilitator: ANNA(: Period 5 Facilitator: **Tiffanie :)** PLOT: In the "fancy font" at the beginning of the chapter, Graff and an unknown character talk about how they are purposely isolating Ender from his Launch to see how he will cope with the challenge. They believe he is affecting the group negatively which destroys their plan but decides to give him more time with the group he currently is in. Also, the talk of the Giant's drink appears during their conversation discussing how Ender is being influenced by it. After the fancy font while in the battleroom, Ender befriends Alai and uses him as the bridge between him and Bernard to reunite his launch, just as Graff had hoped Ender would do. Together they experiment new ways to move around in the room and even try pushing off each other to find new strategies. Ender, Alai, Bernard, and Shen also learn how to use their guns to freeze others, and quickly freeze all of their fellow launchees. In Ender's fantasy game, he is stuck at the section where the giant plays a guessing game and offers him two drinks from which he must choose one. Everytime he chooses a drink, he dies and must start over. Ender knows that the game is rigged, and decides to try something new. He defeats the giant by attacking its eye, therefore killing the giant. By defeating the giant Ender has made it into "Fairyworld". However, Ender is not pleased at his success because it proves how violent he is even though it is just a game, and how much he resembles Peter. NOTES: While Bernard had always been mean to Ender, Ender decided to include Bernard when freezing the other launchees in the battleroom. This is probably because Ender knows that it feels like to be isolated, and also wants to unify the group. If Ender includes Bernard, he can not be faulted and the blame could not be on him. Ender chose Alai as the bridge between the divided Launch because both Bernard and Ender feel comfortable with Alai. Interestingly, the name Alai also sounds like the word ally. The giant's drink challenge was purposely rigged to see which children would be smart enough to "think outside the box" and find alternate ways to win. Ender, of course is the only child who discovers the way to succeed showing that he isn't like others in the battle school. In this chapter, we learn that while Ender has Peter's ability to be violent, he chooses not to be and is only violent when necessary. Ender did not intend in killing the giant and even thinks of himself as a killer. This is a very important aspect of Ender and a key to his success.

Chapter 7 SALAMANDER - Period 4 Facilitator: Period 5 Facilitator: **IRIS ** PLOT: Alai wants Ender to create a security system for him (Alai). However, when E and A go back to the barracks, E finds out he's been transfered to Salamander Army. A kisses E as a sort of sacred act, then E leaves. He goes to a playground in Fairyland where there are other kids, but he's a child in the game. For some reason, he can't play on the playground structures, and takes a path to a well where he's eaten by wolves (the children). He tries to get rid of the children at the playground by leading them through the slide, stunning them, but when they revive, he's eaten again, so after he stuns each one, he pulls them to the brook where they sizzle. He then goes into teh well which leads him to the End of the World. He jumps from teh ledge but ends up in a castle's tower where a snake tells him 'death is your only escape.' After, he reports to his army, where he befriends Petra Arkanian but doesn't get along with Bonzo Madrid. P offers to teach E how to shoot and tells him that '[the teachers] never tell you any more truth than they have to.' B doesn't let E practice with the rest of the army, so instead, E observes B's flaws and figures out how to defeat him. E practices w his launchy group, but B doesn't want him to. E convinces him to let him continue, but makes an enemy out of B. In E's first battle against Condor, he figures out how it works, and notices B's flaws. He realizes that he can help Salamander win, but B forbade him to draw his gun. In E's fourth battle against Leopard, he disobey's B by firing, turning the game into a draw. B is mad at E and E is traded to Rat. E registers for a self-defense class. NOTES: Possible Themes: adults/ teachers are the enemy, mysteries in the school E's commander-like traits: E learns: enemy's gate = down, use feet as protection, small reserve can be useful, soldiers can sometimes make better decisions than orders Fantasy game: game of life? wolf-children are like the 'friends' he meets now, is a way to train kids to think outside of the box, doesn't hesitate to jump off End of the World, snake represents death?
 * 1) knows what makes a good/ bad commander (56, 58, 62, 68)
 * 2) notices B's flaws (61, 64)
 * 3) understands strategy
 * 4) <span style="color: rgb(0, 44, 255);">reasonable (63)

Chapter 8 RAT- Period 4 Facilitator: <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0, 156, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LEXI Period 5 Facilitator: RACHEL PLOT: In the //fancy font// in the beginning of the chapter, the “adults”, Colonel Graff and Major Anderson discuss the game. Colonel Graff wants Major Anderson to change the game and put more obstacles in for Ender to overcome. Major Anderson threatens to report him but gives in at the end. After the fancy font ends we are taken to Ender's new army. Ender arrives at the Rat Army and finds disorder amongst the army led by Rose de Nose. The first things that Ender finds out about Rose De Nose's army is that winning is the priority. He is then placed in Dink Meeker’s toon and is told not to use his desk until he has frozen two enemy soldiers. Dink, however, teaches Ender that a soldier must know how to handle their own power/authority and they don't always have to listen to the commander. Under Dink, Ender teaches the toon the “feet-first” attack during the practices. At first they hate that a launchie is teaching them a skill that they don't think is useful, but soon they realize that it is helpful and it comes in handy for later battles. Dink and Petra seem to observe Ender a lot throughout the chapter. Rose de Nose finds out the Ender disregarded his command (about the desk) and forces Ender to go through the battleroom door first in the battle against the Centipede Army. However, Ender skillfully surprises the opposing army and shoots as many men as possible and permanently earns the right to use his desk. In the end, the Rat Army won. One night, when Dink is alone with Ender, they have a meaningful conversation. Dink talks about how he could have been a commander and how the teachers are the enemies not the other teams. Dink also believes that the kids who become commanders go crazy because of the game and the craze they develop to win their games. He also tells Ender his theory of the government conspiring against the people by manipulating the bugger situation. Dink believes that the buggers are gone and that the gov. is propagandizing it so they can control the people and the IF can keep their power. Ender does not believe him, but Dink’s perspective places doubt in his mind and makes him listen to what people meant instead of what they said. Basically, “it made him wise.” Word gets out that whoever practices with Ender will not be wanted by any army. Ender decides to practice with the remaining launchies while older boys came to taunt them. This quickly becomes a serious a fight in which Ender beats up the older kids with ease. While he was trying to escape the other boys a thought pops into his head, "im doing it again. I'm hurting people again, just to save myself." He finishes the fight and gets away safely. The fight is not reported as a fight but rather an accidental collision. At the end of the chapter, Ender plays the game again. There are no longer any wolf children, the giant is rotted, and he kills the snake without any mercy. Alas he reaches a room with a mirror with a reflection of Peter with blood dripping and a snake’s tail protruding from his mouth. Ender freaks out and begins to hate himself for being like Peter.

NOTES: 1. Dink is synonymous to Petra because they both are the only person from an army to help Ender grow as a soldier and be his friend. 2. Ender believes he is exactly like Peter and is glad to die (in the game) 3. Ender learns how to maintain his own dignity as a soldier Ender learns many things from Dink such as power and also the ability to listen closer. Because of Dink's suspicion of the government and fakeness of the buggers, Ender decides to listen to what people mean instead of what they say. Ender is once again forced to "hurt" people. Since the older kids came to beat him up, he has no choice but to resort to self defense. Of course, Ender wins the brawl but this triggers feelings inside that compares him to Peter. It is unknown how the game recieved Peter's image and because of this image Ender is depressed about his own ability to kill.

Chapter 9 LOCKE AND DEMOSTHENES - Period 4 Facilitator: BRYCE Period 5 Facilitator: JON PLOT: The chapter starts off when Colonel Graff and a Major Imbu start talking about how they have no idea how a graphic of Peter was some how put into the Fairyland game. They ponder the thought that the picture of Peter was taken recently and that there was no possible way that someone could have access to Ender's files at Battle School. Later in the chapter, Valentine, Peter and the rest of the Wiggin family move to Greensboro, North Carolina (Combination) Jon: Valentine is still sad how no one really cares about Ender, and she wasn't getting any letters back. Peter and Valentine begin to try to "take over the world" by becoming two totally different people on the net. Peter also notices that there might be a "WWIII" coming after the bugger war. Could it be a sceme? Peter all the sudden changes too, he becomes nicer and says sorry for everything that he's done. Later in the chapter, Graff comes to meet Valentine, and to ask her to write Ender a letter, since Ender was sad. Valentine says no, however does it for only Ender. Once Ender gets it, Ender knows it was from her, however, instead of being happen, turns mad, since he knows Graff made Valentine wrote it. At the end, Ender plays the game again, but instead of using hatred, kisses the snake, which reveals Valentine instead of Peter. NOTES: 1: The adults are in a way manipulating Ender by using Valentine. 2: Ender is feeling really sorry for himself, he felt that the only person (Valentine) that loved him was taken on the side of the teachers; he felt he was betrayed. As a result, he later begins to cry for the first time in a long time.

Chapter 10 DRAGON- Period 4 Facilitator: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">KENDALL Period 5 Facilitator: GIMA PLOT: Chapter 10, dragon, was an exciting chapter. Ender finnally gets to command his own army, the dragon army. Dragon was an army that has been vanished for years because no one has ever been able to lead Dragon Army to a multiple victories. They give the name to Ender to see if he is a great commander who can lead Dragon Army to Flawless victories, although an excuse that Graff gave him was that they had extra uniforms for the dragon army. However, Ender's soldiers are all launchies and unknown veterans. Basically, he gets all the scrubs. Graff and anderson don't give him as much time as other commanders get ot prepare for their first battle. Within weeks, he had his whole army prepared and ready to WIN. Although he was a great commander, he was unhappy that Anderson and Graff were bending the rules and doing anything it took to beat dragon army. NOTES: 1. Andersen prevented Ender from going to his extra practices with his other friends. 2. Ender and Alai's relashonship had drifted apart. 3. In this chapter we first meet Bean who we see as a over-confident, skilled, young soldier. 4. Ender felt bad about being like his old comanders to his army.

Chapter 11 VENI VIDI VICI - Period 4 Facilitator: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 94); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**SOPHIA** Period 5 Facilitator: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**KATIE** PLOT: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the beginning of the chapter, Major Anderson and Colonel Graff are arguing over the crazy battle schedule that Major Anderson created. They predict that after a while with Ender's busy schedule, Ender would become very tired and weak. Ender's first battle is with Carn Carby's Rabbit Army. Ender instructs his men to slide the walls around the formation and control the stars and corners. Ender wins this battle easily with his strategy of making ten-half toons. After, in the commander's mess, Carn Carby has the decency to congratulate him on his victory. Ender's next battle is against Petra's army (Phoenix). Petra does not respond well to her defeat. Because Ender was 7-0, he is starting to be picked on by the other commanders. Many other commanders were jealous that Ender has such a strong army with him and they are able to win all their battles. Ender then goes to the video room to learn strategy. Here he discovers that he learns more from the buggers than he does from the humans. Graff calls Ender in interrogates him with questions about his army and his whereabouts. Graff then assigns Ender's next battle with Salamander Army (Bonzo). His army is extrememely angry because they were assigned two battles in one day! After Dragon Army beats Salamander Army, both commanders are angry. Bonzo is angry because Ender defeated him without Spanish honor and Ender is mad because he wanted Anderson to match him up with an "evenly" matched army. That night, Ender sends Bean a message telling him to meet him. Ender asks Bean to think of solutions to problems they haven't encountered yet. He is counting on Bean because he himself is running out of ideas. Also, Bean needs to select one soldier from each toon to become part of a special sect that Bean would lead and help coach. NOTES: 1. All of the commanders are angry at Ender because he's young, undefeated, and has brought up his soldiers (made up of launchies) to become a strong army in such a short amount of time (about 3 1/2 weeks). 2. Right now Dink Meeker and Carn Carby are the only ones on Ender's "Human Beings" mental list. 3. In the video room, Ender does not understand why Mazer Rackham's victories are always censored. 4. By telling Bean to tell Anderson what Bonzo should have done to defeat them, Ender is creating even greater tension between Bonzo and him. 5. Lastly, Ender learns that by winning, he starts to lose friends (Petra) and create enemies.

Chapter 12 BONZO- Period 4 Facilitator: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">Rachel Ray Period 5 Facilitator: AUSTIN O. PLOT: In the beginning of the Chapter there is an argiment between Colonel Graff and General Pace. Then Ender wins another battle and then gets a message from Dink to watch his back because there are some people out to get him because they're jealous. So then Ender goes to shower and as he's coming out he sees Bonzo who wants to kill him. Then Ender works his magic so that he will only make the battle one on one now. Then Bonzo gets naked as well so that its even. Ender is very clever and turns on the hot water so that his body will become slippery. Then Ender beats him up real bad and ends up killing him but doesnt know it at that moment. Ender doesn't really want to be at school anymore. But then at the end he moves up to Commander School. NOTES: This fight between Bonzo and Sitlson are parallels since both of them resulted in deaths. Also everything seems to be getting super bad unitl he gets moved up.

Chapter 13 VALENTINE - Period 4 Facilitator: Kyle Period 5 Facilitator: <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">DARIN <span style="color: rgb(3, 255, 0);"> PLOT: In the beginning of the chapter, two I.F. officers are talking about Peter and Valentine being Demosthenes and Locke, but they decide to leave them alone. One day Graff picks up Valentine and takes her to see Ender. Valentine meets Ender once again. Ender has been on Earth for about two months and refused to return to space. Ender tells Valentine that he is sick of fighting and these games. His secret is that he knows them so well he almost loves them but then hurts them(what?!). Ender does not want to hurt people. He also believes that he cannot win all the battles that he faces. Valentine thinks that Ender is trying to say he will never defeat Peter, but she cannot understand how he wants Peter to love him. Valentine tells Ender to go save the whole human race. Graff tells Ender that he wanted him to make a connection with Earth and Valentine to give him a reason to return to space. While on their journey to Eros, Graff tells Ender everything he knows about the buggers. Ender learns about how the buggers can communicate instantaneously and the humans learned about it from them. I.F. uses the <span class="�169�mozilla-findbar-search" style="padding: 0pt; display: inline; color: black; background-color: yellow;">ansible to communicate with ships across the galaxy.Graff also talks about how they have sent ships for the Third Invasion and how he is expected to be the commander of the fleet 5 years from now.. Ender finally asks why they are fighting the buggers. Graff does not know the true reason but thinks that a race that can communicate so swiftly must not understand humans are intelligent. This war could all be a misunderstanding, but the only choice is to attack because the human race is at risk.

NOTES:1.Humans have the natural instinct to kill them before they get killed. (Also called survival...) 2. Ender and Peter have pieces of each other inside of them. (Yes, they're related.) 3. Ender is still a little kid at heart, but on the outside he has matured a significant amount. 4. Humans are only fighting the buggers because they cannot communicate with them. 5. If one race has to die, they want it to be the buggers rather than the humans so they need to expect for the worst. 6. Graff, Valentine, Peter help Ender learn more about himself.

PLOT: NOTES:

Chapter 14 ENDER'S TEACHER first half- Period 4 Facilitator: <span style="font-size: 240%; color: rgb(177, 55, 32); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Daniel Period 5 Facilitator: SHANE second half- Period 4 Facilitator: **ZOE** Period 5 Facilitator: KASEY
 * PLOT:**

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=(PART 1) Chapter 14 starts off into the //"fancy font// (again)//"//of a discussion between Graff and Admiral Chamrajnagar talking about Ender and a few things on what they are going to teach him, such as: the <span class="�170�mozilla-findbar-search" style="padding: 0pt; display: inline; color: black; background-color: yellow;">ansible, the fleets, the weapons systems, and how to make intelligent decisions. Then there was some off-topic and personal dialogues between them. Later, as soon as Ender lands onto Eros, he dispised the place. Eros was a very strange place because it had flat floors, sloped tunnel floors, and the gravity was half of Earth's. During his time in Command School, Ender notices //they// were isolation him again. However, this time the teachers did not need to make as many changes because they were so many people that he did not have the time to see the same faces twices, preventing comminication and starting relationships. He does extremely well in astrogation, military history, and in math. In math he discovered he can answer with his intuition, meaning he can answer a problem with good and quick mental guessing before he can prove it. He gets to play with the simulator almost all he wants because Admiral Chamrajnagar said earlier that they had devoted one of the five simulators all to him. Ender liked the game very much and the people around him taught him different things step by step. The game program is very much alike real-time battles and its viewed in a holographic display. Also, it gives Ender the power to change his perspective and view as much as he likes. The simulator continousely gives him different challenges as well as using Ender's tactics minutes later against him. He has been in Command School for a year now and the simulator is very easy now for him. When he tells Graff this, Graff doesn't show himself around Ender anymore the next day. Instead, an old man appears in his room the next morning. Ender finds that they are locked and tries to play this "patience game" to get the old man talking. Hours pass and Ender starts his excersizes, moving around in the room. He lands near the old man and he strikes Ender. Ender doesn't repsond with force or talk. He mearly continued his excersizes. After his long and wasted day, he goes to his desk. As he is at his desk the old man attacks and puts him down on the floor, pinned. Ender gives up and the old man finally responds. Using the time they had spent in the room, the old man explains only the enemy can teach you your weaknesses. The old man reveals himself as Mazer Rackham, Ender's new teacher and the first living mind Ender can admire. Now Mazer is around Ender more often, popping up here and there. Mazer tells him how he has lived so long by using the miracle of relativity. Then, Mazer goes over the videos of the First Invasion and Second, explaining his beliefs of how the buggers work and move. Ender learns this crucial information and applies it to his simulator practices with Mazer. (END OF PART 1) At the beginning of part two Ender dreams that the buggers were vivisecting his memories. He is shaken up by it and his stress level increases. Ender learns more about the new technology that can be used in battle such as the Dr. Device. While being trained under Mazer, the simulator is altered and the game changes. Ender is given a new set of controls and conditions that are more realistic. He has a headset in which he gives commands verbally, and new levers that allow him to view the battle from any one of his squadron leader's perspective. When he is ready, he is given his own "dream team" which consists of; Alai, Bean, Petra, Crazy Tom, Hot Soup. He wins his first few battles easily, but finds that things are getting harder and harder each time he plays. The computer never seems to repeat mistakes and uses new tactics. Mazer gave Ender feedback which he would then teach his squadron leaders. As time goes on Ender becomes more distant from his friends. He is no longer there as a friend, but as a teacher. At nights, Ender gets less and less sleep, and often has nightmares about the Giant's game, buggers, and his friends betraying him. Things are getting more intense and Petra is the first to break. She had exposed her ships during a battle, and lost nearly all of her ships, and was was never the same in battle again. It was a sign to Ender that he was working them too hard. He layed off the pressure of some of better soldiers by giving the less advanced ones more responsibility. This however put more pressure on Ender. At one point, he went blank during a practice, and woke up on his bed. He got up, won a battle, then went back to sleep where he dreamed he heard voices that sounded like Mazer Rackham and Colonel Graff. NOTES: 1. Ender has come so far that Graff can no longer help. Mazer becomes his new teacher. 2. Ender becomes only the second human to believe the source of the bugger's movements: the queen bugger 3. Ender is glad to be working with his friends and toon leaders on the simulator. 4. Ender learns that to save humanity he must make risks, keep ahead of the bugger movements, and rely on his comrades.

Chapter 15 SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD - Period 4 Facilitator: Period 5 Facilitator:KELSEY PLOT: In the beginning, Anderson and Graff are back on earth talking to eachother about the situation of ender's harsh training and the effects it had on him and the people he killed. Graff also knows who Demosthenes is and wont tell Anderson. and now Graff is the new Minister of Colonization. Back on Eros, Ender is pretty sure they wont bring him back to earth. He has been promoted to general and uses his privileges to watch the videos taken of him killing Stilson and Bonzo. Eros is now bustling with colonists that are preparing for thier voyages to the bugger worlds. They hardly let Ender help out. Then, Valentine comes up to Eros and tells Ender that she will be going with the first colony. She tries to convince him to come with her, and at first he doesnt want to go; all he wants to do is go home. Val then tells him he is definately not going home. They then talk about what Peter has been doing and how much power he has. Val also tells Ender that people will always control your life, but you can choose the people who love you to control you. Finally, Ender agrees to go with Val, not because of her or becoming the governor, but because he feels the only way he can repay the buggers for their death is to learn from their past. On the new world, Ender learns the difference between military and civilian leadership as his role as the governor. He doesnt find any books from the buggers, so he learns about them through their structures and things he finds. Later, Ender and Abra go to explore where a possible neighboring world could be set up. together, they flew in a helicopter as far as they thought the new world should be and then camped overnight. in the morning while they were exploring, Ender finds that this new world is very familiar to him. Its the Giant's Corpse. He goes through and finds the castle tower. He goes in leaving Abra outside. As he goes in, he sees how hard the buggers worked on the details to imitate the game. He then finds the mirror that would always reflect an image of Peter in his place. When he removes the sheet of metal that was put in its place, he finds a cocoon. images play back in his mind, telling him the story of how the cocoon came to be and also shows him the Third invasion in the perspective of the hive-queen. He also learns how the war could have been avoided if they were able to communicate. Ender is the only one she can communicate with. He takes all that she tells him and turns it into a book signing it with the title "SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD". Then Ender and Valentine travel from world to world, looking for somewhere safe for the hive-queen to awaken and live in peace with her people. NOTES: - Ender feels bad for what he did to the buggers, so that is why he is doing what he is doing for the new huve-queen -Ender finds the cocoon in the place in the game where the snakes would normally kill him, so the significance of that is that they knew he wasnt afraid of death, so he would look there, and when he did, he found the cocoon. -Ender cant go home, because he would become Peter's "pawn" -the hive-queen can only talk to ender

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