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Podcast: Aekta's Whisperings
Episode: Continuing Ch.12 of Ender's Game
Description: This is my least favorite chapter of the whole book, because it has the most amount of violence & grief. In others ways though, it's an important turning point in the story, since Ender decides he wants to quit the game, & he is also graduated early to Command School by the end of it. This chapter shows how much Ender is affected by the teachers' plans to turn him into some kind of unstoppable force & how he breaks down after hurting a bully, even if they had it coming. The chapter shows us what Ender is capable of, when tested to...