Post #12

Cooper Feltes

pg. 548-599
Speaker for the Dead

                 On these pages, Ender is still the household of Novihna. Novihna hears an unfamiliar sound, the sound of her son, Miro, laughing. Having grown up in such a hostile, unfriendly household this one has turned out to be, Novihna is appalled that he is laughing with such "scum" as the Speaker. She repeatedly asks him to leave, and he eventually does. Before leaving, has a few more unfamiliar laughs with the children, just to be kicked out of the house by Novihna. Novihna had called for Ender upon the death of Pipo, her father figure. She aborted the request, which is not doable after the Speaker had left, which he had. We find out though, that Ela, Novihna's daughter, had called for him only, coincidentally, two weeks before he arrived to speak Marcao's, Novihna's cruel husband's, death. The kids of the family are accepting of Ender, but Novihna thinks very differently, for she hates him, and would rather see him dead than to have to talk to him again.