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After being tested, he was introduced to then-Captain Hyrum Graff as a leading candidate for the role which Ender would later play, but his personality was judged too set in anti-authority patterns.

He arranged a deal through which his family would be moved to America and given exemption from the population laws in exchange for a modicum of guaranteed service, which both he and Graff knew he had no intention of fulfilling.

His purpose was to get his family out of its repressive circumstances ; Graff's purpose was to allow him to have a child in America who could be more carefully monitored and introduced to Battle School without John Paul's prejudices, as told in the short story " The Polish Boy ".