During these chapters we see frustrating events that cause Ender distress and begin to understand the effects each person has on Ender through their relationships. During Ender’s free play, he finds himself spending a lot of time at the Giant’s drink game. He is aware that it is just a game, but he is extremely bothered by it. He feels like he must complete it, but at the same time angered by what he has to do in order to survive. Ender is only able to get past the Giant's Drink by breaking the rules, “the Giant shouted, ‘Cheater, cheater!’” (64). He decided not to choose a drink and instead attacks the giant and claws out the eyeball. He does this out of anger at how unfair the game was, but once again brining out his Peter side, “I’m a murderer, even when I…show more content… While in Salamander Army Ender is befriended by Petra Arkanian, an outcast herself, “and now, by chance, he had made exactly the wrong friend” (75). Petra spends time with Ender teaching him how to become a more relaxed and better shooter. Ender then goes to Rat Army, where he is assigned to Dink Meeker's platoon. Ender soon discovers he was not just traded away, “he had been picked up, he had been asked for. Meeker wanted him” (101). Ender and Dink have a talk after practicing, when Dink says he was promoted twice, but refused to be a commander because he does not believe in the school. He said that he believes children are not meant to be commanders of armies, but they are meant to be children. Ender points out that Dink could still be a commander, but Dink will not let the adults run his life. Refusing command is his way of not letting them run him. Dink thinks that the buggers are gone, but that the school is kept up to keep the I.F. in control. Graff wants Anderson to make unfair battle room scenarios so that Ender can face more real war like situations, “Think of other ways to bend the rules[…] We want to bring him along”
