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Ender’s Game Have you ever been through a situation that you hated so much, but in the end helped you? Well that’s what happened to Ender in the book, //Ender’s Game// by Orson Scott Card. In this story, Ender, a boy, is chosen to go into space, and has to go through training, in order to defeat aliens that are suspected to attack Earth any moment. During his childhood, however, Ender is a //third//, one who was born third, which was thought inferior. Ender had an older brother, Peter, who was very mean and always played pranks on him. However, in the long run, Peter actually helped Ender get through most of his training in Battle School. As a six year old, Ender was transferred to Battle School, far into the universe. During the first few days of training, he was singled out by Graff, because he had to start to depend on himself, not other peers around him. At night, Ender began to cry, "Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt" (45). In his new school, people didn’t cry anymore, he was in a totally different world, and he had to deal with it. From all of Peter’s torturing, Ender gained strength, emotional, mental, and physical strength that taught him how to hide his feelings, no matter how bad it hurt.