Ender's Shadow Chapter Summary

Ender’s Shadow is a novel that occurs in the future during a time of war between the humans and the Buggers, an insect-like alien species. The story begins in Rotterdam where we are introduced to Poke, a girl in charge of a group of street orphans, who encounters Bean, the protagonist of the book. At the time, Bean was merely four years old, but he is intellectually superior to all of the other starving children in Rotterdam. Thus, he tells Poke of a way to prevent the stronger kids, who are often called bullies, from stealing their food, which is to get a bully to protect them by providing them with food. Poke decides to carry out out Bean’s idea and ends up hiring Achilles, a bully with a malformed leg and a superb mind, who takes over the “family.” Achilles soon murders Poke for the reason that she almost killed him when they initially met, since she were to kill the bully if he had not complied with their conditions. Bean realized
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Achilles was the perpetrator of Poke’s death and this meant he had to escape from Achilles due to the fact that he would be his next target as a result of being the individual who encouraged Poke to murder him. Luckily, Sister Carlotta, a Catholic nun and recruiter for the IF, met Bean and got him into Battle School, a military program within space to train children. Once Bean was at Battle School, he explored the facility and hacked the school system, discovering numerous pieces of information that was to be withheld from students. Accordingly, the teachers are infuriated by this act of disobedience and breach security, but they also recognize Bean’s brilliance. Therefore, the teachers delegated the assignment of
Consequently, by eradicating the Bugger’s home planet in the “simulation” the eleven adolescents had eliminated the Bugger species, ending the war. The book then ends with Bean heading back to Earth and meeting and his parents for the first time, who had been united by Sister