Enders game summary

In the first few chapters, Orson Scott Card subtly relates to us the power of the government in this unknown time. He starts the story when Andrew, also known as Ender, has a monitor removed from his neck at the age of six. The government is looking for children, that have certain qualities about them, and one child in particular that will one day be able to command armies and lead the earth to victory in their fight with the "Buggers", which is what they call the aliens. To do this, the government attaches monitors to each child's neck that monitors everything the child sees, hears, and feels. Usually the removal of the monitor means that the child has failed, and will not be going to battle school. In Ender's case, the monitor was removed because they wanted to see how he would react to things once it was removed. Ender had passed every test so far, and t

His genius raises him to the top of the intensely competitive games in the Battle Room, an immense null-gravity chamber where armies of youngsters engage in mock combat. But his real struggles are off the playing field - with a dangerous older boy named Bonzo Madrid who is determined that both he and Ender cannot survive in this place; with his teacher, Mazer Rackham, who won the last war on a fluke and now is trying to prepare Ender to win the next one by skill rather than luck; and with himself, as Ender wrestles with his own demons, desperate to remain a decent human being even as he sees himself being transformed into exactly the same kind of monster as the buggers themselves.

It's 2070, forty years since a devastating alien invasion was barely turned back, and the world is desperately searching for soldiers to lead them to victory when the "Buggers" come again. That's why they're drafting young children who pass a rigorous screening, and sending the best of them to the orbiting Battle School, where they are trained from childhood to be ready for war in the vertiginous reaches of space.

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