This essay prompt is about two books Ender's Game and The Absolute True Story of a Part-time Indian in which one of the characters meets another from another book.
Junior sat in his first class of the day at Reardan. The school that was 22 miles away from his hometown, Wellpinit, with a bunch of white kids who seemed to hate Indians. Junior felt immensely out of place. At least he was smart enough to be taking geometry as a freshmen, but that probably wasn’t very good as sophomores stared him down walking into the room as he was someone who didn’t belong. The only upside was Penelope. He was given some questions to do but it was open, but he was staring. Not at the book but staring as he always did at Penelope. Wondering if she would go to the dance with him, but he was too poor, he knew it. But he always put himself down like this. He knew it himself.
Just as he was about to start working as he should have been for 10 minutes, he heard the door click open to see a slim but strong-looking boy walk in. He handed a note to the teacher and sat down next to Junior. Junior was surprised to see a man’s face on a boy’s body. The teacher stood and announced “Class, this is Andrew Wiggin, he is new just like Junior, so please make him welcome.” Junior sniggered and thought on how he was treated on his first day. Boy was that hell. “I’d rather Ender.” Andrew said quietly. Junior stared. He doubted anyone would give him THAT much of respect. Hell, he had less respect than even Gordy, the school genius, but they were beginning to become friends anyway. The teacher nodded and went back to something on her computer. Ender looked at the geometry book, and laughed to himself. Within 5 minutes he was finished with 3 pages of advanced geometry. He sat and waited, his face contorted in thought. Junior stared almost as much as he did at Penelope. “HE JUST FINISHED GEOMETRY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE ANOTHER HOUR.” Junior thought. The teacher looked distressed as if he was some idiot who just didn’t try. “Ender, are you finished?” Ender got out of his trance immediately and stated “Yes.” Junior thought the teacher was going to hit Ender by the way her face twisted into a scowl. “Let me see your paper.” Ender walked up, gave her the paper, and sat back down. All eyes were on him, but he seemed like he didn’t care. He just sat, again deep in thought, for the rest of the class. Of course the scowl that he was given was given again as the teacher announced “Alright Ender, you finished your homework for now. I’ll talk to you about this tomorrow.” The bell rang an hour later and Junior rushed to Ender. “How the hell did you do that?” He demanded. Ender didn’t say much, but looked at Junior and said “It’s easy.” Junior didn’t have any classes with Ender until after lunch, but at lunch he sat with him. “Where did you come from?” Junior asked. Ender kept on eating but answered. “If I told you, you would never believe me.” Junior gave him a quizzical look but decided to stick with him. He had much to learn about Ender, and there was something that made Junior very curious. Lunch ended and Junior didn’t talk to Ender for the rest of the day until after school.
As Junior walked out of Reardan, he was immediately tackled and thrown around. It caught him off guard and couldn’t do much about it until he saw Ender come out of nowhere and give one of the 4 or so kids a right hook no one had ever seen before. The other kids immediately stopped beating up Junior and backed away. Junior was helped up by Ender and they both walked away as the kids were looking at the kid who had been knocked out and most likely had a broken jaw. Junior was the one who spoke after a few minutes of walking. “Thank you.” His ribs were bruised and he was bleeding a little, but he was ok. Ender smiled and said, “Don’t worry about it, I was just like you when I was your age.” Junior almost laughed. “What do you mean? I’m as old as you!” Ender smiled again and said “You can think that.” Junior and Ender hitchhiked to Wellpinit and Ender was dropped off just outside of the town. Junior finally found a friend at Reardan.
