Title: Ender’s Game Chapter 14 Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver
Headings: Ender's Game Summary and Analysis of Chapter 14
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game Summary and Analysis of Chapter 14

Content: As the enemy formation closes in on them, Ender's fleet melts "into chaos," with his ships firing at any and all of the enemy ships and getting cut up themselves. After a few minutes of this feint, Ender organizes twelve remaining ships into a formation about halfway to the planet. At Ender's command, the ships drop straight toward the enemy's planet to use the M.D. Devices. At least one Little Doctor reaches the planet with its effects, because the planet suddenly begins to bubble, and within three seconds "the entire planet burst apart, becoming a sphere of bright dust, hurtling outward." Only the starships on the outer edge of the battle survive, including just two or three of the enemy ships. Gravity starts pulling the debris from the explosion back together. As Ender removes his headphones, the room is filled with noise of people laughing, shouting, weeping, and so on. Graff thanks him, and Ender is confused, since "it was his victory, not theirs, and a hollow one at that, a cheat; why did they act as if he had won with honor?" Mazer tells Ender that he made a hard choice, "End them or end us...Congratulations.