As Ender was flown up to the battle school on the asteroid belt surrounding Earth, Ender faces more trouble. Ender has already been singeled out as a third but Graff, I believe, wants to isolate Ender even more. He does this by singling out Ender. Saying that Ender will be the only successful at the battle school and that the other students were to be frank, useless idiots who would be bugger fodder. This although a cruel tactic by Graff, trying to make all of the other students turn on Ender, was effective the students started bullying Ender right then and there, but that all ceased. As Enders deadly instinct to kill came into play and broke a child's arm. This obviously made Ender look like a threat in the eyes of the other students and was shunned as soon as they all landed aboard the battle school.
Ender had to have been feeling horrible, after breaking that child's arm and that he had been made an enemy of the other students by his own teachers mysterious intentions. When they landed Ender asked Graff why he had singled Ender out, Graff simply replied to Ender's question by stating that students would be even angrier at him if they saw Ender talking to him now. While effective this tactive was showing a darker side to colonel Graff than even before. From reading between the text and even just from the text you can see that Graff cares about nothing but the I.F.'s success.
These chapters are mysterious an interesting about Graff's true intentions for Ender. It also shows just how heartless powerful forces can be so that they just use children as tools. This also demonstrates the social commentary displayed in the book as children get sent off into the military in many places around the world and are treated even worse than the example in Ender's game.
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