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Third
We meet six-year-old Ender Wiggin, a 'Third' — a third child in a future where families are only allowed two. That label marks him as an outsider from birth.
Peter
This chapter deepens the portrait of the Wiggin household. Peter's sadism comes into full view when he and Valentine play a war game that turns genuinely threatening.
Graff
Colonel Hyrum Graff arrives at the Wiggin home to recruit Ender for Battle School. The conversation is a test as much as an interview.
Launch
Ender travels to Battle School on a shuttle with other recruits. Graff immediately singles Ender out in front of the group, praising his performance on the entrance exam and imply…
Games
Ender arrives at Battle School and begins to learn how the place works. He is assigned to a launch group and spends time in the game room, where he discovers a computer fantasy ga…
The Giant's Drink
Ender gets pulled out of Launchie life and thrown into the mind game, a solo simulation that other kids play for fun but that Ender takes obsessively seriously.
Salamander
Ender gets transferred to Salamander Army before he's finished launch training, which means he arrives as the least experienced soldier in the group.
Rat
Ender is transferred again, this time to Rat Army under commander Rose the Nose. Rose is eccentric and gives Ender almost total freedom, which is the opposite of Bonzo's approach.
Locke and Demosthenes
The chapter shifts to Earth and follows Valentine and Peter. Peter has a plan: he and Valentine will create fake political identities online and use them to influence public debat…
Dragon
Ender is promoted to commander and given Dragon Army, a group assembled from the youngest and least experienced soldiers in Battle School.
Veni Vidi Vici
Ender's Dragon Army keeps winning, and Command School keeps making the fights harder to stop him. The teachers schedule battles with almost no rest between them, sometimes two or…
Bonzo
The conflict with Bonzo Madrid comes to a head. Bonzo, humiliated by Ender's success and his own loss of status, organizes a group of boys to attack Ender in the shower.
Valentine
Graff brings Valentine to Ender because Ender has shut down after the Bonzo incident. Ender has retreated to a lake near the school and won't engage.
Ender's Teacher
Ender arrives at Command School on Eros and meets Mazer Rackham, the hero who defeated the Formics in the Second Invasion.
Speaker for the Dead
The final battle arrives. Ender and his squadron commanders fight what they believe is a difficult simulation.
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