Post #6

Cooper Feltes
Speaker for the Dead
pg. 296-349
Ender, now departed for Lusitania is now, on his journey, feeling the pain of loosing his sister, who has long since gotten over the pain. Her new daughter, Styfe, though not known to Ender, has taken a deep obsession to him. This was probably mirrored by Ender's former student Plikt, who also obsesses over writing her book about who Ender and Valentine really are. Valentine's three children, now full adults, are the only ones who are told the true stories of Valentine and Ender, of particular interest to Plikt, who takes Styfe under her wing. It is later mentioned that Ender, on his "short" journey, has fallen in love with Novhina. He says, "he loved her, as you can onlu love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow. He then goes to wonder what they 40 years (to him only a few days), has done to her desperate situation. He yearns to see her with a burning passion.

Post #5

Cooper Feltes

Speaker for the Dead

On pages 242-295, Andrew prepares to embark on his journey to Lusitania, many, many light years away. Jane, the intelligent life that lives in the network between the colonies prepared a ship for him to travel in (a ship that costs $40 billion dollars, a scratch in Andrews’s wallet). On a side note, throughout Andrews’s life he has been travelling among the stars at near light speed, which slows down the human aging clock for some reason, so much so that ender has been alive for more than 3000 years, but he feels he has only been alive for some 35 years. Andrew’s sister, Valentine, has been traveling with him among the stars as a second Speaker for the Dead, making them both very famous. Valentine is married with kids now, and Andrew doesn’t feel he needs to make them move again. This means that by the time Andrew gets to Lusitania, Valentine and her husband will have probably been dead for a long time, whereas Andrew will have only felt a week’s worth of travel time. Ender is going to have to let go of his Sister, his guardian and mentor, in order to achieve something of significant importance to him. So, like he always does, he packs only his cloths and a few keepsakes into his bags for his short journey that seems like a lifetime to the rest.

Post #4

Cooper Feltes
Speaker For the Dead

On pages 200-241, Jane, a character that lives through the network of computers throughout the hundred worlds who reveals itself only to Andrew, tells him to go to Lusitania to investigate the death of Pipo. Ender looks at a picture of Novinha, who sent out the call, to see such sadness and years of built up pain in her face. Ender, I think, has an immediate connection with her. He, back in his childhood, was put through the pains and stresses of constant alertness and constant usage of his brain, with little time to sleep. He was worn down to the point where he fell asleep during one of the most important live simulations of his life. Novihna is feeling the same thing. Her parents dead, she has had to deal with empty sorrows from people. She knows she didn't  really have anyone to talk to before she had Libo there. Ender sympathizes, and heads to Lusitania.