"... Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me-- to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools."
"Is that all? Just tools?"
"Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive."
-Colonel Graff and Ender
Ender arrives at battle school, and quickly learns that the teachers are subtly setting him up to be hated by the other boys, something he must eventually work past. It is revealed that he has an extraordinary intellect, as he easily hacks into the school's computers, and twist the other boys around his finger with cleverly chosen statements.
Ender experiments in null gravity, the state of no gravity that the battles are fought in by the older boys. He also plays mind games, and thoroughly beats an older student at a tactical game, foreshadowing for his later abilities.
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