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In some ways, Ender believed going to Battle School wouldn't be much different from Earth. The reason he believed this is because no matter what, he wouldn't have a normal life, even on Earth. Sadly, this was because he was a third (thus, everyone would ridicule him). Nevertheless, the main reason was because he knew that in some way, he could protect Valentine in harms way if he went to battle school and join the fight against the Buggers.
He's younger, smarter, and a "third" (a third child when families are limited to 2 children.) Another difference is that, unbeknownst to Ender, he has been chosen by the teachers (particularly Colonel Graff) as the best hope for humanity: the best choice for a battle commander against the Buggers.
Dear Asker, I sincerely think you should just read the book, it is... magnificent. Orson Scott Card (the author) did such a good job, but when people hear about how it has aliens in it coming to destroy earth, they back out. ****SPOILER ALERT FOR ENDER'S GAME**** In the end of the book, Ender is sent to an academy on a planet named Eros. It is very small and dark. He plays a game, very realistic where he can see everything in three dimension. He has ships, and the enemy too. And so every time, Ender manages to win the level and gain entrance to the next one. After a while, he became a little crazy, didnt sleep much and didnt have a lot of human contact. One day, a couple of Earth's leader came to see Ender play. Mazer Rackham (his mentor) and Hyrum Graff (his other mentor) told him that this was the last level. He put on the microphone and "played" the game with his friends from battle school (including Bean, Hot Soup, Petra...) At the end of the battle, Ender released a scientifically engineered bomb with the capability to destroy a planet. The bomb fell on the buggers (or formics) home planet, and destroyed the planet, along with every alien ship. Ender then sees all the Earth dirigents crying and praying to their gods, huging each other. Thats when Mazer tells him nothing was a game, it was all real, the war ended and Ender became a colonist with his sister. He then goes to another world called Shakespeare in the second book. Hope it helps, <(") Skba (")>
According to Wikipedia, the web definition of graff is: "a small lunar crater that lies along the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is located to the west of the Vallis Bouvard depression in the southern part of the ejecta blanket that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin."
In the introduction of Chapter 10 in "Ender's Game," the people talking are Graff, Anderson, and the Minister of Colonization. They are discussing Ender's progress and his training in Battle School.
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Graff is the Princible of Battle School, at least until he got court marshled for the incident with Bonzo. To Ender, Graff seems like any other teacher, trying to use him and break him. But Graff seems to have hidden affection for Ender, and is reluctant to push him to his limit.P.S. Enders game is awsome
On the very first day, on the shuttle to Battle School, Graff blatantly and repeatedly tells all the boys that he expects Ender is the only one who's going to survive and do well at the school.
In some ways, Ender believed going to Battle School wouldn't be much different from Earth. The reason he believed this is because no matter what, he wouldn't have a normal life, even on Earth. Sadly, this was because he was a third (thus, everyone would ridicule him). Nevertheless, the main reason was because he knew that in some way, he could protect Valentine in harms way if he went to battle school and join the fight against the Buggers.
Well three main characters are Ender (obviously) and his siblings, Peter and Val. As for a fourth main character, it's my opinion that it's up for discussion. I'd probably say Bean myself. But while Bean is a large part of the latter half of Battle School, Alai is a pretty large part of the first half - so you could say Alai. And as a third possibility, you could say Col. Graff - he has a sort of overarching presence throughout the book.
Ender first enters Salamander Army, and then gets traded to rat army, and then Graff sends him to an army that ender commands Dragon Army. In Dragon Army Ender meets a kid named Bean.
Graff knows who is running the game.
In "Ender's Game," Ender is manipulated through deception and psychological pressure by Colonel Graff and the military leaders. They isolate him from his peers, pushing him to excel in battle school, believing he is preparing for simulated war games when in reality he is unknowingly leading a real military strike against an alien race. This manipulation is designed to mold Ender into a ruthless and strategic military leader.
Graff means that most girls in the space school have not passed the grueling tests because over evolution girls have created a reputation that makes them more feminine and weaker than boys. For example, on page 24 Graff says, "A few girls. They don't often pass the tests to get in."
"Graff" is a fictional character created by Orson Scott Card in the novel "Ender's Game." In the story, Graff is portrayed as someone willing to manipulate situations and use questionable tactics to achieve his goals, which may be interpreted as blasphemous by some due to his questionable morality and actions.
Several things are going on in that chapter. One of them is that Ender is playing the computer game, and it has shown him a picture of his brother, which is a big mental roadblock for him. Graff knows this, and he is mad. He wants to find out how it happened, but the programmer guy says that the game is doing it on its own, and that somehow Ender needed to face that. So, Graff goes to Earth to talk to Valentine and convince her to write a letter to Ender. She knows it won't fool him, but she gives him the message that Graff wanted to send, because she agrees that it could help. She realizes also in this chapter that she and Peter are a lot alike... not in pure evilness, but in the ability to manipulate and convince others, and she goes along with Peter because she thinks she can temper him, and because he is working for things that she wants too. Anyway, Ender reads the letter and knows he is being manipulated, which hurts him, but it also kind of helps him because he is angry enough to go farther in the game, and he realizes that the perfect image he has in his mind of Valentine maybe isn't absolutely accurate--or at least that it shouldn't stay static. He is able to see her in the game instead of Peter next time he goes into it, and together they move on, so he feels like she will be with him going forward, and it isn't just a memory that he has to freeze in time. It is a win for Ender, but also a win for Graff, because Ender is engaging and moving forward again... motivated to do battle.