Post #3

Cooper Feltes

English 9 reading blog

After Nohvina decides to start a relationship with Libo, she is faced with a decision. The files that she saved held something that caused Pipo to get killed. She is afraid that Libo will access the files and discover the same secret that Pipo found and cause himself to get killed. Nohvina then places every security encryption possible on the files. This works until Nohvina decides she would agree to marry him. In that society, two people in married relationship are, in law matters, the same person. This means that if they were to get married, Libo could easily access the files. Nohvina now must choose between loving him and letting him die, or letting him go and keeping the secret safe.

Post #2

Cooper Feltes

English 9 reading blog

                After the main character’s father, Pipo, is killed by the “piggies”, Pipo’s son Libo is found to be in a vulnerable state. We find this after the news of Pipo’s death spreads and the worlds sent empty sorrows to Libo. Libo knows that Nohvina, as a child, had both her parents killed by a virus that spread across the planet. Her parents were the ones to find a cure for the virus, but were too late in finding it to save themselves. Nohvina, with the guilt of thinking she caused Pipo’s death, is sharing sorrow and despair for the death. Libo retreats to the science station, the place where Nohvina, Libo, and Pipo worked together, to find Nohvina trying to decipher what kind of secret that led Pipo into a death trap. Libo, having long had feelings for Nohvina, senses her despair and lays down with her,  where they both fall into a much needed sleep.

Post #1

Cooper Feltes
English 9

                In the Sci-fi book, Speaker for the Dead, one of the main character's father is killed by aliens that inhabit this planet after finding out a secret in the origins of their colony. These aliens are known to sacrifice other animals of their same species before, but never before on a human. This casts the galactic community (however nerdy it may sound) into a vengeful state, yet no actions are taken against the "piggies", the aliens. Nohvina, a girl of only 18 originally discovered this secret, and feels as though his killing was her responsibility, even though, in many perspectives, it wasn't. I feel that a lot of things that don't relate to me are my fault. I find that the only thing I can really do is learn to forgive myself. Forgiving myself is one of the hardest thing I know I can do. Like Nohvina, there is always still the itching fear that it was my fault.