What makes enders squadron leaders successful

Eros was not at first a human colony, but a bugger colony. Humans took over the asteroid and reverse engineered the technology that the buggers had on it. Using their technology, they were now able to control things like gravity and stellar energy. They also learned what little death meant to the buggers. Only death of the queen made a difference to them. The queen is probably hidden away safe on a home planet. To defeat the buggers, the International Fleet must take on whole armadas of bugger ships.

Luckily, the International Fleet has advanced its weaponry. The Dr. Device is their top weapon. Once fired at the enemies, the Dr. Device causes a sphere of destruction; within these spheres electrons separate away from each other, thus dematerializing any ship that is caught within it.

The sphere even causes a chain reaction, a domino effect, in which more spheres are created from the first. Eventually, Ender begins training in a new way. He now controls an entire fleet in the game with separate squadrons of ships. Each squadron has its own leader who is positioned in another simulator. He communicates with these squadron leaders through a headset, and he only gets to know their capabilities through these means.

When Ender first put on his headset he was shocked to learn that his squadron leaders are none other than friends, allies, and his former toon leaders from Battle School. Soon enough, Ender grows to learn the strengths and weaknesses of all of his squadron leaders.

They practice over and over again together in the simulators. Rackham helps quite a bit, and he even shows Ender how his fleet looks like to the enemy. Together, the squadrons work together just as well as, if not better than, the simulated bugger fleets.

Unlike the bugger fleets, each squadron has the ability to think for itself. After a while, Rackham feels like Ender is ready for his most challenging simulation yet. Rackham says that he. Ender and his fleet will be facing the buggers in an all-out attack like that of the Second Invasion. He tells Ender of all the things he has lost, like family, in order to help the human race succeed. Before long, Ender and his squadron leaders are in their simulators facing this new challenge that Rackham has brought forth.

Ender is able to easily defeat the enemies by first getting them to come in close to each other and then by shooting the Dr. After this first simulation is over, Rackham brings on more and more simulations that all grow more difficult. Ender wins them, but not without heavy losses. He has one particular nightmare that is troubling. The villagers are buggers who admire him. Most bothersome, though, is the end of the dream when he sees himself killing Valentine.

Petra is also very tired and Ender has been using her a bit too much in the simulations. One day, she suffers from major burnout and gets most of her fleet destroyed. Petra, however, is broken too much to come back as a strong squadron leader. Ender realizes, now, that he must remember that his leaders are human and cannot be pushed too far. Eventually, Ender also collapses under the stress of the situation.

He is given time to rest until he feels well enough to battle again. His days of rest are a bit alarming since he sees illusions. But, he fares well during the simulation. Ender continues defeating the enemy in the simulator, all the while he deals with horrid nightmares at night. One day, Ender is surprised to wake up in his room without Rackham there and without his door being locked.

He walks to the simulator to practice there. Instead of practicing, though, he learns that today he will have to take his final exam. Today, the very special simulation will require him to battle around a planet.

International Fleet officials will observe him as he fights. The simulation begins and Ender is handed older ships to do the battling. He is up against tremendous odds since he is incredibly outnumbered. The battle is a tough one. Ender has his ships go in and out of formation to cause chaos and to allow some of his ships to get closer and closer to the planet.

Soon, his ships are close enough to the planet to enter its atmosphere. Devices are shot at the planet and the planet explodes. The resulting explosion takes out just about all of the enemy ships around the planet.

The planet has been turned into clumps of dirt. The International Fleet administrators that have been observing the whole scene are overcome with joy. Rackham explains why the buggers stopped fighting after he attacked a single ship—he destroyed the queen ship.

The enemy is like highly evolved insects, and they do not think to each other but are more like many parts of a single organism, with all thought coming from the queen. Rackham explains modern weapons to Ender as well as the one advantage humans have over buggers: every pilot is a thinking being, and so people can carry out many more strategies at once than the buggers.

Ender is moved into a new simulator where he is to command an entire fleet, this time with three-dozen real squadron leaders made up of all his best friends and opponents from Battle School. Rackham tells him that he is preparing more and more complex simulations and that Ender cannot quit because winning is everything. Ender spends hours practicing with his squad leaders and battles are fought every couple of days. Afterwards he and Mazer go over them to see what he could have done differently.

Ender is lonely and tired, but he does not stop. He is a commander, not a friend, to his leaders. Ender dreams strange dreams about the buggers and he has difficulty sleeping. He breaks down physically once, and he wakes up in time to win a battle and go back to sleep. He fights when awake and then sleeps, and the days blend together.

Then one day Mazer tells him that the battle will be his final examination in Command School. Ender is happy to hear that because he is tired of it all. Then he sees the battle, and he despairs, for he is vastly outnumbered. He does not even want to play but decides that he will win an unfair battle rather than be beaten unfairly.

Ender wins the battle by destroying the planet that the enemy lived on, and the room explodes in cheers. Rackham tells him that he has actually been the fleet commander of the Third Invasion and that he just destroyed the buggers completely. Ender is angry with Rackham and Graff for using him. He did not want to hurt anyone and now has destroyed an entire race without his knowledge. Ender sleeps through the five days of war on earth and when he awakens, the Locke Proposal put forth by Peter to settle the war has been accepted and all of his friends are there to tell him what he has missed.

After Ender has won the final battle, assuring humanity's safety from the Buggers, Ender is the only one who does not celebrate. He feels only sadness and anger. He is sad because he destroyed the buggers, and he did not want to hurt anyone. He is angry because he was manipulated perfectly, and Graff and Rackham got everything out of him that they wanted.

Ender is really the only character who feels for the buggers, for he is the only one whose compassion extends not just to all human beings, but to all sentient beings. The buggers are intelligent life, and to kill them all is a horrible thing to Ender, even if there was no choice.

Ender is angry because he still feels he should have had a choice. He knows, however, that the adults did what they had to do to save their species, and that whatever price he has to pay would be worth it to them.

Graff and Rackham know that Ender feels betrayed, and the only justification they can offer is that they had no choice. Their manipulation was wrong, but it was the right thing to do for the survival of humanity. Ender Wiggin is a genius, and he understands people's motivations, but he is also tired of being used to fight other people's wars. Ender does not hate the buggers, and so this was not a war he would have consciously fought. At the same time, Graff, Rackham and the I.

Throughout the book, Ender has been a part of games, and the end of the novel blurs the distinction between game and reality.