Character Analysis
Crazy Tom, Han Tzu (a.k.a. Hot Soup), Fly Molo, Vlad, and Dumper come back as Ender’s squadron leaders in the war against the buggers, but they start as his toon leaders at Battle School (we think). Honestly, there’s nothing particularly interesting about them in this book other than the fact that they work for Ender and they do their job well. (How uninteresting are they? While Crazy Tom is mentioned sixteen times in the book, most of the others are only mentioned fewer than ten times. Guess how many times Vlad and Dumper are mentioned: two and one. These last two don’t even get mentioned at Battle School. And, yes, we’re just that thorough we had to count.)