Ender, having beaten Salamander Army against the odds,
then shames Bonzo Madrid even further by asking Bean, his youngest Toon leader, to
publically announce where Bonzo went wrong and what he should have done to have beaten
Ender. This humiliates Bonzo even more than his defeat, which really he knows and
recognises he should have won. It is only as Ender leaves the battleroom that he
reflects that what he did by using Bean to highlight Salamander's mistake would be taken
as a personal slight by Bonzo rather than understood for the attack that it represented
against the techers:
Bonzo would only know that he had been defeated
even when the odds were stacked in his favour; that Ender had had the youngest child in
his army publicly state what Bonzo should have done to win; and that Ender had not even
stayed to receive Bonzo's dignified
surrender.
Such actions, seen
from this perspective, would drive Bonzo's hatred of Ender into murderous rage, which of
course is never a good idea, and results in a very close showdown between Ender and
Bonzo later on in this novel.
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