Ender's Game Part 4

Ender describes the flight up to the Battle School, and the strange experience of weightlessness. They say null gravity can be very disorienting to first time fliers, especially children, but Ender catches on pretty fast, realizing that he can't trust the floor anymore, and that it could just as well be a cieling or a wall. I don't think I could make my perspective flip like that on command, but it sounds pretty awesome. Later on in the trip Graff starts yelling at the boys (most around the age of Ender) calling them soldiers. Ender recognizes this as the beginning of the training process. The commanding officer would have to be against them before they could become friends. But Graff doesn't criticize Ender. Instead he praises him for figuring out how null gravity worked, and calls him the only kid with brains on the whole ship. But this turns out to be even worse than criticism for young Ender. Now the other kids have an enemy, and they quickly turn against him. Once again Ender is forced to defend himself and he flips a boy over the front of his seat and accidentally breaks his arm. Afterwards, at the Battle School, Ender pulls Graff aside to ask about the incident. Graff says he can't expect things to improve much over the course of his training. If you're smart, people are going to hate you. End of story. Poor Ender. :P