Ender s Game Summary

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set in a future where Earth has been involved in a 50 year long war against an alien force, known as “Buggers”. Earth’s three ruling parties, the Hegemon, Polemarch and Strategos form an International Fleet to fight the “Buggers”. The International Fleet created the Battle School to train the most gifted children, with the best strategic minds to fight in the IF. Children were chosen because having been raised on video war games their decisions are intuitive, decisive and fearless. Six year-old Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a trainee at the school. After an incident with another trainer where Ender fought off and killed a bully his monitor is removed and he believes that he has failed out of the program. His oldest brother, Peter and sister Valentine were both trainees but did not make it to Battle School. Valentine was too kind-hearted to fight and Peter was too violent. Peter is four years older than Ender.
Colonel Graff, the commander of the Battle School, offers Ender a position at Battle School. He explains to Ender and his family that Ender’s reaction to the bullying and the removal of the monitor was part of Ender’s assessment. Battle School is located on a ship in earth’s orbit. On the flight there Ender shows Colonel Graff that he understands how zero gravity works in space. Graff separates Ender from his classmates, and Ender has few friends. Ender does well in his class and he goes further in the computer game called ‘Mind Game’ than anyone ever had before. Gaff decides to promote Ender to Salamander Army. Salamander Army is commanded by Bonzo. Bonzo does not like Ender and continues to bully him. Ender makes friends with Petra, the only girl in the army, and she helps him train and learn the formations against Bonzo’s orders. Ender is traded to Rat Army in Dink Meeker’s platoon where he does well in battles. Ender gets into a fight and hurts four older boys who attack him.
Back on Earth, Ender’s brother, Peter and