Salaam enders game

Ender's Game Film. The Authorized Ender Companion. Ender's Game Manga. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 0. This article is a stub. The sentimental idea that whites who killed or uprooted the Indians became infused with their spiritual or moral essence did not begin with New Agers in the s.

It goes clear back to the invented legend of the first Thanksgiving feast and the apocryphal peace treaty between William Penn and the Lenape chief Tamanend aka Tammany in The empathy extends to the reader.

There are no gay characters, but that is presumably because most of the characters are prepubescent children. Ender is essentially asexual. I am neither gay, nor a girl, nor short. I am, however, a Muslim who grew up in Kansas in the s, and I struggle to think of a more perfect recipe for creating a sense of isolation in an American teenager.

It stopped me cold:. Alai hugged him back. You are the best of us. Alai nodded soberly. The general tells Graff not to hurt Ender, and when Graff responds incredulously, the general qualifies his statement—Graff should not hurt him any more than necessary.

The night starts out with Ender and Alai eating dinner together discussing the security systems on the computers. Alai wants Ender to set up security for him the way Ender has for himself. Ender leaves his food unfinished Alai points out that he never finishes , and goes back to the barracks. But when the get back they find that Ender has been transferred to Salamander Army, under the command of Bonzo Madrid. Alai hugs Ender, kisses him on the cheek, and says the word "Salaam" in his ear.

Ender knows that Alai has given him a gift of a word that has tremendous personal import. Ender plays the mind game again, moving farther along and figuring out how to get past obstacles until he gets to a door the is labeled "The End of the World.

But just then the screen goes blank and a message pops up telling Ender to report to his commander. As he goes he imagines that beyond the end of the world is the end of the games, where he can just go and live normally, whatever that means.

The commander of the army assumes that Major Anderson, who is in charge of the games, gave him Ender as a trick. Bonzo tells Ender not to do anything in battle and to stay out of the way. Petra tells Ender she will teach him how to fight in the battleroom.

Petra does so, and also tells him that they can control gravity and do many things that the adults do not tell them about. The adults are the enemy in her mind.