格拉夫孤立了安德,让他陷入挣扎。让他证明,不是他有能力,而是他远比其他人优秀。这是他赢得尊重和友谊的唯一途径。这使他成为一名比其他情况下更好的士兵。这也让他感到孤独、害怕、愤怒、不信任。也许这些特质也使他成为一名更好的士兵。
(Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.)