Valentine and Graff arrive in Florida, where Graff takes Valentine to a beautiful lake. Valentine runs down to the shores of the lake, and finds Ender paddling in a small boat. He greets Valentine calmly, and mentions that he enjoys swimming since he misses weightlessness. This dismays Valentine, and she realizes that the IF has turned Ender into an agent of war.
Related Quotes with Explanations. Ender nods, and insists that Valentine not mention Peter. Here Ender sums up his philosophy as a leader and a warrior. She tells him that Peter is writing under an alias, and wants to run the world, beginning with his words. Ender is impressed, and surprised that Peter has become so tactical and methodical in his thinking.
Here Card lets the irony of leadership sink in. On the other hand, the best warriors, like Ender, are often adept at feeling compassion and empathy for others—this is what makes them such superior fighters. Even after years of military training, he has no idea how to defeat them. Ender, however, claims that what he really wants is for Peter to love him. Ender and Valentine lie by the lake for hours, silently. Ender leaves the lake, and finds Graff waiting for him.
He accuses Graff of using Valentine to manipulate him into returning to Battle School. Graff nods and admits that Ender is right: by exposing Ender to Valentine, Graff has reminded Ender that the world is worth fighting for. Ender no longer has any illusions about being manipulated, and so Graff is relatively open about his methods and goals. Ender and Graff leave the Earth after Ender has been there for three months.
Command School is located on a small planet called Eros. At the interplanetary satellite, Graff finds a pilot and orders him to take them to Eros immediately. For the next three months, Ender and Graff travel to Eros on their ship. They spend long chunks of time talking about the Buggers and military strategy. Ender is particularly interested in learning about the Buggers themselves. The Buggers, Graff tells him, are similarly to human beings in many ways: their bodies contain DNA, and they have the same type of vision.
It appears that the Buggers can communicate with each other from any distance, instantaneously. The humans have imitated Bugger biology to develop instantaneous communication methods of their own, which they now use for war. Ender asks Graff other questions about the Buggers.
He wants to know if the Buggers are sending a new fleet to destroy human beings. Ender points out the obvious: maybe the Buggers have decided not to attack humans anymore. For seventy years, humans have been sending fleets of ships to the Bugger home planet, each fleet more advanced than the last.
He adds that the fleets need a commander who can lead them to victory against the Buggers. That commander is Ender. The Buggers might not all be dead as he claimed, but they have been emphasized as a common threat for seventy years, partly as a tool for government manipulation. Ender asks Graff , point-blank, why humans are fighting the Buggers. He finds it odd that Ender is so interested in his enemies. While Ender is still very much on the side of the humans in all this he only sees the Buggers as enemies he still wants to know more about his opponents.
Ender still loves Valentine, and so she is able to influence him. She convinces Ender that he must return to space to save mankind from the buggers. Her appeal is on a personal level, and it works. Ender knows that he can defeat his enemies, and he can do that by understanding them better than anyone, but unlike Peter, when he understands them he starts to love them.
It is then painful for him to destroy them. While Peter crushes what stands in his way without a second thought, Ender does not feel the same way. Ender is unconcerned with ambition or power, and unlike Valentine, would be content to live a normal life. However, he loves his sister, and, along with her, the rest of humanity. Because of this conflict, Ender has no choice but to go to I. He is aware that he risks destroying himself, for he will again be forced to give in to his destructive side—Ender must act like Peter once more.
It will be painful and the risks are great, but there is nothing that Ender would not do for Valentine. In the end it is his love that makes him strong enough to go on, and that forever separates him from Peter, who would not do anything for love.
Ender hates himself because he is like Peter, and now his sister, the one person he truly loves, is asking him to go back to being like Peter in order to save her life.
It is a tremendous personal sacrifice for Ender to leave earth, but for Valentine he will even destroy himself. Once he decides to leave, Ender begins to pick Graff's brain for all that he knows about the buggers. Ender learns that by studying the buggers, humans have learned how to master communication at faster than light speed—the buggers actually think that way.
He also learns the sad truth that the bugger wars may be due entirely to a misunderstanding. Assuming that the buggers communicate instantaneously with each other, how could they understand that humans are actually intelligent life forms? This possibility troubles Ender, but he is forced to agree with Graff that since they cannot know for sure that the buggers will not attack again, they must wipe their enemy out. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
Characters Ender Valentine Peter. Themes, Motifs, Symbols. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Summary Chapter Valentine. Summary The conversation that starts Chapter 13 is not about Ender but rather about Peter and Valentine.
Analysis The various people in Ender's life cause him to come to terms with his identity in this section. Popular pages: Ender's Game.
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