Ch. 10- Ender's Game

     Chapter ten of Ender's Game focuses on Ender's transition from toon leader to commander.  He is now leading the Dragon army, a team of young and inexperienced soldiers.  Major Anderson and Colonel Graff are doing everything possible to make things harder for Ender.  It seems impossible that Ender's army is ever going to win a battle due to all the rule changes and inexperience of his soldiers.  For instance, they did not allow Ender to trade soldiers and they did not give him any top-notch veterans.  Similar to Ender, I dislike the teachers because of how unfair they are treating him.  However, strangely enough, Ender uses the same technique Graff used on him.  Just like how Graff isolated him, he is isolating Bean, one of his soldiers.  He believes that the teachers did what they did to him to make him a better soldier.  This is why he is doing the same thing to Bean.  I agree with Ender in that Bean is the brightest kid he has and that he shows the most promise.  After practice, Ender realizes he is doing everything he hated in a commander, which was bullying people like Bonzo had done.  I like how Ender explains that Alai is his friend in a memory so intense that they cannot tear him out.  I think that Ender, in the end, will prevail against these teachers and produce a great army.  At the end, he says, "And with that anger, he decided he was strong enough to defeat them-the teachers, his enemies." (Card 172)