

When Ender returned home, he met his older brother Peter and his older sister Valentine. Although Ender did not know until years later, Stilson later died in a hospital because of the injuries that Ender gave him that day. In response and to defend himself, Ender beat up the ringleader, Stilson, in a brutal assault, to end not just that fight, but all future fights with the bully and his gang. At the end of the first school day after the removal of his monitor, the bullies of the school began teasing and mildly attacking him for it.

He has been closely watched for years by leaders of the International Fleet. Ender was a brilliant six-year-old boy, born as a third child in the United States that only permitted families of two children each, thus his very existence required permission from the government. The story began with Ender Wiggin having his monitor removed. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world.

Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut-young Ender is drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Įnder's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.
