week 8:3
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On Eros, Ender is never happy. The tunnels of the city that went through the asteroid were low, narrow, and seemed...odd. It was very uncomfortable physically, as well as emotoinally. Ender is once again seperated from everybody, this time because all of the other students are much older than him and don't pay him any mind. He spends alot of time with Graff, when he s not in his classes. He soaks all of his new classes in, but soon realizes that, like Battle School, there is a game here also, a game that is what Command school is all about. Just like battle school.
The game is a computer simulator of starship battles. He starts with only one ship, but then progresses to commanding 4 ships. he soon learns that he is more likely to win the battles if he never controls one of the ships individually, but commands the whole battle. After a year or so, he starts winning every game tht the computer can possibly throw at him, and this is commanding entire fleets in the simulator. Ender begins to wish for his old friends from Battle school, or rather, he begins to wish he could trust the commanders of his ships to do the jobs he gave them, so he could concentrate more on the battle as the whole.
He asks Graff when the game is going to get hard again, and the next day Graff is gone, and he has been locked in his room with a silent old man. They don't say anything to each other after a while, but then in less than a second, the man has Ender haging upside down. He tells Ender that he should never expect his enemy to be passive. Ender asks if he is his enemy, and the man tells him that he is. He says that he is his new teacher, and that the only true teacher is the enemy. The enemy is the only one you can ever learn anything from. After another short fight, the man leaves, and tells Ender that he is Mazer Rackham, the pilot who defeated the buggers in the secon invasion, 80 years ago.
I like the line where it says that the only one you can ever learn anything form is the enemy. It is true, but not in such a literal sense as the book puts it in. It is true, though, you will always learn much more from opposition and experience than from a friend who never challenges your abilities.
The game is a computer simulator of starship battles. He starts with only one ship, but then progresses to commanding 4 ships. he soon learns that he is more likely to win the battles if he never controls one of the ships individually, but commands the whole battle. After a year or so, he starts winning every game tht the computer can possibly throw at him, and this is commanding entire fleets in the simulator. Ender begins to wish for his old friends from Battle school, or rather, he begins to wish he could trust the commanders of his ships to do the jobs he gave them, so he could concentrate more on the battle as the whole.
He asks Graff when the game is going to get hard again, and the next day Graff is gone, and he has been locked in his room with a silent old man. They don't say anything to each other after a while, but then in less than a second, the man has Ender haging upside down. He tells Ender that he should never expect his enemy to be passive. Ender asks if he is his enemy, and the man tells him that he is. He says that he is his new teacher, and that the only true teacher is the enemy. The enemy is the only one you can ever learn anything from. After another short fight, the man leaves, and tells Ender that he is Mazer Rackham, the pilot who defeated the buggers in the secon invasion, 80 years ago.
I like the line where it says that the only one you can ever learn anything form is the enemy. It is true, but not in such a literal sense as the book puts it in. It is true, though, you will always learn much more from opposition and experience than from a friend who never challenges your abilities.
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