Officer Graff Character Analysis

In this chapter it is it is interesting that Ender is grateful to Peter for teaching him to cry silently. Peter has made Ender into the type of person who can handle a threat and thats all I think he has done to help him . Ender has a talent to be independent which helps him during the games. Ender shows how he can use his intelligence to fight back. This shows how ender is very mature Ender's strategy destroys Bernard's gang, and makes it so that he makes friends(makes friends with shen) without violence (P, CON)

Chapter 3: There is a knock at the door while Ender and his family are eating dinner, it is a commander of the International Fleet and want Ender to go to battle school. Ender got his Monitor taken off but Colonel Graff had his final test to see how he reacted without the monitor. Ender’s reason for continually hurting Stilson was to make sure that Stilson did not hurt him again and Colonel graph approves and convinces Ender to go to Battle School.

Since they don’t have much time to get a new commander, they rush Ender during battle school. This didn’t affect him, it instead impacted the other students thoughts about him. The older kids despised him for being a launchie and launchies despised him for being better. He realizes the adults won’t do anything about his problems with the others. They control his isolation and manipulate him into thinking no one is there

“When I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, then in that moment, I also love him.” Graff and the I.F. are trying to persuade Ender, and the population of Earth that a third invasion is imminent. Ender is sent to Battle School when he was just a little boy, but he was smart, the I.F. had in him all they ever could ask in a commander. Through years of extensive and grueling training, Ender is ready to go to Command School, but it hasn’t been easy. And the admirals and colonels in charge of Battle School are worried that they wore him out, Ender starts to question his motives. Many questions nag at his mentality, many of whom cannot be answered to him, or else the I.F. would lose a high value commander. So everything is kept secret from Ender. Even his closest friends keep their knowledge enclosed from him, but Ender can’t help but to wonder.

At the beginning of the novel, Ender is chosen by Colonel Graff to take place in a program called Battle School. Here, Ender learns all about fighting in gravity, using special weapons, and creating battle plans. Ender is a Launchie, someone who is new to the school. Since day one, Andrew is the top of his class, and quickly ranked up to Bonzo’s toon. Bonzo is supposed to be his teacher, but it turns out much differently. Since Ender is still very young, he isn’t treated like the older kids. Bonzo tells him to stay away from their practices, and in the back of practice battles. Ender decides the only thing he can do is help the Launchies. This will give him leadership skills, and give them extra practice.

After his fight with Stilson Ender realizes what he has done and thinks he is “just like Peter” (8). Peter is everything Ender does not want to be. Everything Peter does goes strictly against Enders morals and so when Ender finds that he has done something like Peter would he becomes ashamed. Enders greatest wish is to not be like Peter and he struggles with this for years. After Ender has won the third invasion and he takes to exploring the bugger world they built their colony on he finds a “silken cocoon” of a bugger queen, Ender knows that if he allowed the queen to live at that time other humans would kill it and so he decides that he’ll “go from world to world until” he finds a place “where you can come awake in safety” (320-321). Ender chooses to do what he believes is right. Ender finally takes a chance to learn from his past mistakes and has accepted that there are parts of him that might be like Peter in ways and because of this is finally able to make his choice. This decision gives Ender some closure in a way, for years he had been doing things that do not go with his morals when he was given control and he finally had a chance to do what he thought was right.

The second stage of a hero’s journey is the call to adventure. Something happens that calls the hero away from their everyday life and into their quest. For Ender, it was when Graff showed up at the Wiggin’s home in chapter three. The removal of Ender’s monitor turned out to be the I.F’s final test to see how Ender handled situations without the aid. Graff arrives at the Wiggin residence to deliver the news and invites Ender to attend Battle School to commence his training. It takes a bit to sway him but he ultimately agrees stating that he was in fact born for the sole purpose. He leaves holding Colonel Graff’s hand and Valentine crying for him to return to her.

Months later, the siblings are allowed to write newsnet columns. A year later, Ender is promoted in Rat Rmy. Graff goes down to Earth to see Valentine and discuss Ender’s problems. He explains Peter’s face in the mind games. Valentine knows that Peter and Ender are not alike in any way and is shocked when Graff argues that they are more alike than she can see. Graff tells Valentine to write Ender an encouraging letter. She does and sadly regrets later, knowing she had sold her brother. Ender gets the letter knowing that Valentine was forced to write it. He is sad that Valentine is on his enemy’s side. Ender later plays the mind

Ender is one of the best commanders the International Fleet has ever wanted. He is put through the physical task that no battle student has ever done before. At Battle School, Ender is the commander of the dragon army, and is pressured everyday to compete in a battle against another army. Ender wins seven out of the seven battles he played in a week (Card 186). This shows Ender’s intellect over his irrationality and emotion. It also shows a new train of thought, because no other army is put through these stressful battle situations. When Ender takes part in the commander school training, there is a part where Ender unleashes against Petra (Card 284). Ender let his emotions get to him as they normally do. Ender sometimes lets his emotions too much, rather than think, he does irrational stuff. Ender is a good for David Hartwell’s idea, but yet he contradicts it. Ender finds himself in a hard situation. He decides to go and restart the bugger colony. This scientific advancement that Ender wants to bring to the buggers is pessimistic for the International Fleet, and they cannot do anything to stop

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