1. Characters
1.1. Ender
1.1.1. Ender always had It rough
1.1.2. Underdog but always the best
1.1.3. Ender's Big Fear: "I am just like Peter."
1.1.4. Ender may be a survivor, but he isn't a killer.
1.2. Valentine & Peter
1.2.1. Devil and Angel
1.2.2. Interlude: Locke and Demosthenes Take Over the World
1.2.3. We’re Not So Different After All
1.3. Colonel Graff
1.3.1. Author of Ender's story
1.3.2. Pushed Ender to be who he is
1.3.3. Acts as Ender father
1.4. Mazer Rackham
1.4.1. Senior citizen
1.4.2. Advise Ender
1.4.3. He is a legend
1.4.4. Rule breaker
1.5. Major Anderson
1.5.1. Run Battle school and game
1.6. Ender's first friend at battle school
1.7. Bean
1.7.1. Mini Version of Ender
1.8. Petra Arkanian
1.8.1. One of Ender friends - only girl in battle school
1.9. Bonzo Madrid
1.9.1. Bully/commander
1.10. Bernard
1.10.1. Genius
1.11. Stilson
1.11.1. bully
1.12. Carn Carby
1.12.1. Commander of rabbit Army
1.13. Rose the Nose
1.13.1. Commander of the rat army
1.14. General Pace
1.14.1. Head of international general fleet military police
1.15. Dap
1.15.1. Camp Counselor
1.16. Admiral Chamragnager
1.16.1. Head of commander school
1.17. Major Imbu
1.17.1. Run computer at battle school
1.18. General levy
1.18.1. In charged of defense on earth
2. Author
2.1. Orson Scott Card
2.1.1. Born in 1951 in Washington and raised on the west coast,
2.1.2. The winner of the 1986 Hugo and Nebula awards
2.1.3. Orson Scott was inspires by his surrounding
2.1.3.1. First, there was his love of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction, where Asimov would take one idea and see how it would affect people
2.1.3.2. Second, Card’s older brother was in the military, so Card got to hear about how terribly hard training was
2.1.3.3. And third, Card was fascinated by Civil War history and how important generals seemed to be.
3. Quotes & Insights
3.1. Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools."
3.2. In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
3.3. "I am not a happy man, Ender. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."
3.4. "Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you."
3.5. So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other." "If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you." "What if we just left them alone?" "Ender, we didn't go to them first, they came to us. If they were going to leave us alone, they could have done it a hundred years ago, before the First Invasion." "Maybe they didn't know we were intelligent life. Maybe—"
4. Themes
4.1. Games
4.1.1. Games are not always what they seem, there is always more to it than the mind can comprehend
4.2. The Relationship between adults and children
4.2.1. Adults always think they can manipulate the children but is not always the case, children are also manipulative -Children in this book are smaller than adults in size, but that is about the only difference
4.3. Compasion
4.3.1. Compassion provides hope for the future.
4.4. Ruthlessness
4.4.1. Ruthlessness is sometimes necessary, as in Ender's treatment of Stilson, but it is a last resort, sometimes to be avoided at all costs.
4.5. Friends and Enermies
4.5.1. Card constantly proves that friends and enemies are not clear distinctions
4.6. Humanity
4.6.1. to be human is to have compassion. The ability to feel for others is the mark of humanity
4.7. Ender
4.7.1. Ender is very much a representative of all that is good. He is filled with sorrow for any destruction he causes and wishes no ill to any other creature. He is good because he is kind, but he is also good because he makes the sacrifices that he has to make. It is good to do what is needed, even if what is needed does not seem right.
4.8. Peter
4.8.1. Peter does what he wants. He takes power because he desires it, and other people's thoughts and emotions are only important to him insofar as he can exploit them
5. Setting
5.1. The Future on earth and in space
5.1.1. Greensboro, North Carolina
5.1.2. Battle School
5.1.3. Fairyland/the End of the World
5.1.4. Command School on Eros
5.1.5. The Colony