Chapter Summary Of Ender's Game

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I. SUMMARY The first chapter begins with two people talking about a boy and if he is ready to help save the world from buggers. They don’t seem sure because of there past results with his brother and sister. Then the story goes to Ender and how he is happy to get a monitor the government uses to see through his eyes out of his neck because it made him an outcast. His brother Peter especially hates him because Ender had the monitor one year longer and Ender thinks with the monitor gone Peter would be nicer but he realizes Peter wont change. When the doctor pulls out the monitor its to painful so he is drugged before he goes back to school. When he gets
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Their conversation is about how Ender seems to be in trouble. The other students are split apart, and Ender is stuck at the "Giant's Drink" portion of a game which is what the men discuss. The two talk about a boy who killed himself, all though Graff thinks the death had nothing to do with the mind game. Graff is ordered to leave Ender with his group to see how he handles the situation, even though Graff wants to try something else. The other person is in charge of the fleet, and says that until Graff gives him a commander there is nothing for him to do. Ender and the other students are in the battle room for the first time, getting used to no gravity and the suits they wear in it. Ender quickly begins to explore with moving around, just like another boy, Bernard's best friend Alai. The two of them talk while moving around the room, as the other boys are slower, and not as good. They figure out that the guns they have freeze the part of the suit that they hit. Alai suggests that they freeze everyone but Ender thinks they should do it with Bernard and Shen. They freeze all the others, and Ender and Alai become friends. Soon Alai is in charge and his group includes everyone else. Bernard is no longer in

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