Ender is always dealing with conditions throughout his whole life that attribute to his experience. People around him try to mold him into a mature "robot" by giving him strenuous challenges before his time. In the beginning of the novel, people are always watching him and judging him through a monitor that is attached to his neck. This teaches Ender that every move he makes counts. "Everything we do means something, realized Ender." Then when Ender goes to Battle school, Graff, the leader of the school, isolates him by turning the others against him, "Graff had deliberately caused it...when the officer prefers you, the others hate you." Ender learns to develop an independent mind through this. With his independent mind, Ender starts learning about breaking the rules. In the Giant's Drink Game, he beats the game after killing the giant, which no one had thought of befor

Ender grasps maturity through his experiences. Whether it be that he comes to understand the ways of others, or see something no human has seen before. Ender is proof that it doesn't take age to mature; it is a learning process in which understanding leads the way to adulthood.

e. Also when Ender he shoots in his first battle, he rebelled against his orders not to fire, yet he won the battle. "And soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've given." Even the Battle School is bending the rules. When Ender gets into a fight with four boys and injures them in the Battle Room, the administration passes it off as an accident to protect Ender. The administration ruthlessly wants to use anything against Ender. Including Valentine, his sister. When they use Valentine against Ender, he realizes that he is so hurt that the administration could never hurt him any deeper. "...He decided he was strong enough to defeat them- the teachers, his enemies." Ender then directs his strength to learning how to fight the buggers. He begins to break free of the anti-bugger mentality so he could see how to defeat them. "So it was from the buggers, not the humans, that Ender learned strategy." As he is learning about the enemy, he is put in Command School, while still a child. He suffers because of harsh conditions he must succumb to for his education. When Ender complains about what he is faced with, Mazer Rackham, his teacher, coveys to him how much everyone has suffered. "When you can give me back my dead wife, Ender, then you can complain to me about what this education costs you." Also at Command School, Ender is tricked to think that he is only playing simulations, when in actuality he is fighting the real wars. When they tell him this, Ender learns he is nothing but a pawn. "You had to be a weapon, Ender. Like a gun, like the Little Doctor, functioning perfectly but n

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