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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game Character List
Andrew Wiggin
Peter Wiggin
Valentine Wiggin
Stilson
Mrs. Wiggin
Mr. Wiggin
Colonel Graff
General Pace
Major Anderson
Major Imbu
Mazer Rackham
Bernard
Alai
Bean
Shen
Petra Arkanian
Bonzo Madrid
Carn Carby
Dink Meeker
Rose de Nose
Dap
Pinual
General Levy
Pol Slattery
William Bee
Talo Momoe
Crazy Tom
Hot Soup/Han Tzu
Fly Molo
Vlad
Dumper
Admiral Chamrajnagar

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Andrew Wiggin
Also known as Ender, he is the protagonist of the novel. Ender is only six years old when we first meet him, but he is a brilliant boy who has been monitored to see whether or not he should go to "Battle School" to become an International Fleet commander. Ender is the hope of the Fleet against the alien "buggers." Due to his incredibly quick learning and perfectly developed temperament, Ender becomes the commander who destroys the buggers. He thus saves humanity. Ender is a "Third," the third child in a world where parents are normally limited to two due to overcrowding--but his parents were permitted a third due to the great promise of his older siblings. He is thus a combination of his older brother, who is vicious and ruthless, and his older sister, who is extremely compassionate. This combination gives Ender an identity crisis: he wants to win victories in order to win peace, but when he employs severe violence, he is unsure whether he has been motivated by necessity or a more violent part of his character. In order to prevent harassment or even his own death later on, Ender defends himself against his enemies Stilson and Bonzo Madrid to such a degree that he kills them both.