The story begins with 2 unknown speakers having a conversation over if Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is the one person to defeat the "buggers", that threaten the world's safety. They decide that he is, since he was being monitored by a monitor on the back of his neck, while he was put up against challenging events, or tests to see if he was capable of handling the task. His brother Peter hates Ender, because he had his monitor taken off a year before Ender did. This means that the people monitoring them lost interest in him, and saw him unfit for the task to save the world. Ender doesn't want his brother to hate him, but realizes that their conflicting personalities will prevent them from ever being friends. He is calm and nice, while Peter is mean and dangerous. In the future, third-born children are made fun of, and Ender was one of them. At school, he was being bullied by a boy named Stilson, because of it, and Ender ended up beating him up badly. This hurts Ender deeply, because he feels he's becoming like his brother, Peter.
I felt that Ender is a pretty important person to the whole world, since people are looking to him as potential to save the world, with him only being six years old. He thinks very complex for his age, and the people talking about him and putting him up to tests foreshadow he is going to be manipulated to be that person to fight the buggers and save the world, whether he likes it or not. It also foreshadows that he wont end up liking the way he'll be treated, or like the idea of saving the world because he is a peaceful child.
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