"Sometimes I feel like if you watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
~ Delirium By Lauren Oliver

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Ender's Game #3

In Chapters 10-12, let's just say a lot happens. Ender (only nine) became commander of an army that had been inactive for years, the Dragon Army. Usually commanders are much older, everyone thought Ender would be a commander, but not this early. When he went to see his army there were no veterans, they were mostly just launchies who had no idea what to do in battle. But that didn't stop Ender, right off the bat he started doing things differently, He put the younger ones closer to the door instead of having them in the back like usual going unnoticed. He made them learn the way he does things by when he says "move!" they'd better move. When they got to their first practice, he didn't start with formations like usual; in fact he never did formations at all. When he created the toons in his army, instead of the normal four he created five. They usually gave the commanders three months to get their army ready for battle but no, the games started changing once he got command of the Dragon Army. They only gave him three and a half weeks; but Ender thought they were ready even before he got the sheet telling him he had a battle. From that day, on they were getting battles daily and never once did his army lose, not once. They were the highest rank in every category, they were untouchable. After a couple of months they started giving him two battles a day, that was unheard of. Then the school tried everything they could to try to make him lose just one game but Ender was too smart and getting tired of there games. They made is army face two armies at once. Ender was done, he had the smallest but brightest solider, Bean, help with what to do. Finally Ender thought of a way to throw them off, it was to create a formation. They have never once practiced a formation so it took Ender all of five minutes to explain to everyone how it was going to work. If they can change the rules of the game, then there are no rules. They came out from behind the stars and it was throwing off the armies just how they planed it would, but they were so focused of the formation none of them saw that six soldiers had slipped away and now going through their own gate winning the game before they knew it. After that all of Ender's toon leaders became commanders of other armies and he thought they were screwing with him again, taking all of his good man, but they weren't. That graduated Ender to Command School, but the thing is you have to go through pre-command school first, Ender didn't he went straight there. Only people who were at least sixteen went there but still he was only nine. At this point we realize Ender has actually killed two people, a fact that would truly crush him if he knew.

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