Ender's Game Part 3

The next morning, the second day Ender is home, quite an unwelcome visitor comes to the door. He asks to speak with Ender's parents. The man is a Colonel from IF (the International Fleet) described by Ender as the only military uniform that meant anything anymore. The children argue, because everyone knows that the man came to take Ender away, that he had passed the test after all, but Peter, jealous, says that it might be him they decide to take. The Colonel asks to speak with Ender, and Valentine throws Peter an "I told you so" look. Colonel Graff chastises Ender for beating up Stilson, saying he is now in the hospital because of the incident. Ender is ashamed, but wonders why they would send a man from IF instead of a school representative. Is it that serious? Ender's thoughts wander idly to what jail would be like, when the Colonel suddenly reveals his true reason for the visit-he has come to take Ender to Battle School. Taking off the monitor was only a test, to see how Ender would be able to defend himself without help, and he passed the test. Ender's parents think this is horribly cruel. To let us think, they say, that we get to keep all of our children, and then take him anyway? Graff talks to Ender alone, and asks if he wants to go to Battle School, because it is in fact his choice. Ender says yes, and Graff explains the specifics. Training is completed at age sixteen, and Ender gets his first leave at age twelve. Graff explains things about Ender's family that even he didn't know, because the monitor is listening all the time, even when Ender isn't. Graff says that his parents sacrificed a lot to have a Third. They were both born with religion, Ender's mother was a mormon, but has since denounced her religion and denies the fact she lived in Utah, and his father was born a catholic, the seventh of nine children, but now also denies this. Eventually, Ender gets in a car and leaves, NEVER TO RETERN AGAIN. DUM DUM DUUUUUUM....