Title: Ender’s Game Chapters 1 and 2 Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver
Headings: Ender's Game Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1 and 2
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1 and 2

Content: Even so, one of them says that he likes Ender. When Ender gets home, his sister Valentine tells him that she is sorry that his monitor was removed (it suggests that he did not pass). Ender is glad is is gone. When Peter walks into the room, he immediately gets angry at Ender. Valentine says that without the monitor Ender is "like us," but Peter denies the claim because Ender wore the monitor for so long. Peter's ruthlessness comes out when he realizes that "they" can't check up on Ender through the monitor anymore, and he suggests a game of "buggers and astronauts"--Ender is always the bugger and gets beaten up by Peter. Peter pushes Ender down and presses on his groin with his foot, and then he kneels on Ender and threatens to kill him--until Valentine tells Peter that she would tell everyone that he murdered his younger brother. Even when Peter lets up, he tells the others, "So. Not today. But someday you two won't be together.