Ch. 14 of Ender's Game

      This was, hands down, the best chapter of the entire book.  Chapter fourteen was full of intense and surprising twists.  Like Ender, I was surprised to find out that Mazer Rackham was still alive.  Mazer Rackham is there to train Ender even more and he also told his opinion in how he had defeated the buggers.  His idea was that every ship acted like a part of an organism and that the buggers have a queen.  So, when Mazer attacked and killed the queen, it made all the other buggers go stupid and eventually die.  It was cool when Ender put on the headset for the simulator and all the people he trusted in Battle School were there.  Mazer Rackham is putting Ender through many simulations to prepare him for the real battles.  I thought that Ender' continuous strange dreams were peculiar.  As he said, it was as if, "My whole life keeps playing out as if I were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life." (Card 286)  He kept seeing Peter, Stilson, and Bonzo's faces in his dreams and in one of them he had seen Valentine as one of the wolves from the playground who mocked him and he drowned her.  At first, I thought it would be impossible for Ender to win in his final examination.  Then he came up with an interesting idea, which was to use the Dr. Device on the planet.  It worked and he had destroyed all the buggers in what he thought was a stimulated game.  Then I was completely astonished to find out that all the simulated battles Ender has fought after Mazer became his enemy were part of the Third Invasion.  All this time Ender had been commanding their fleets and he had no idea.  In his final examination, he had actually destroyed and defeated the buggers and had ended the war.  Ender had won the war.  I liked how they ended the chapter by having Ender's trusted people from Battle School all together in Ender's room.