Ender's game- Ch. 6

         This chapter was great in explaining the battleroom and how the kids responded to being in it.  Ender was the first person to leave the handholds and start soaring through the air.  All the other boys stayed holding onto the handholds until some eventually did leave.  Except for the boys who left after Ender, the other boys did not work on controlling their drifting.  Ender was able to figure out before everyone how to use his feet to control the rebound angle.  The only other boy that showed good maneuvering skills in the battleroom was Alai, Bernard's best friend.  Basically, this is showing again how Ender can quickly realize how to do things.  Another example was when he learned by himself what the two buttons on the gun near his thumb were used for.  I liked how Ender becomes friends with Alai even though he knows Alai is best friends with Bernard.  Also, I liked when Ender said that Alai was the bridge between Bernard and Ender's different groups.  As we have already learned, Ender continuously shows his intelligence at the Battle School.  He does it again in chapter six when he defeats the Giant in Giant's Drink, which is extremely difficult to defeat, almost impossible.  At the end, I'm not sure if Ender is mad that he killed the giant.  He also says, "Peter would be proud of me," (Card 65) which I do not know if he is saying this as a good or bad thing.  In my opinion, he says this to be a bad thing because Ender "...hadn't meant to kill the Giant," and he states, "I'm a murderer, even when I play." (Card 65)