Chapter 3 "Graff" Summary

The two voices are worried that Ender won't want to leave his sister. Convincing Ender, suggests one voice, will requiring lying to him, or, in an emergency, possibly telling him the truth.

Ender's family breakfast is interrupted by a visit from Colonel Graff of the International Fleet. Graff needs to know why Ender was so brutal with the bully Stilson. Ender explains that he had to make an example of him, so the others would leave him alone. Hearing Ender's measured response, Graff invites Ender to join the Battle School at the Belt, the duty for which Ender was born. Ender, thinking he'd already washed out, is surprised. The officer explains that the removal of the monitor was Ender's final test and that, further, it wasn't what Ender did to the Stilson boy, but why he did it, that...