Post #9

Cooper Feltes
pgs. 448-495

In these pages, The scene switches to Novihna's laboratory. This is her place of buisness- a place where she can get away from her awful children, now enlightened, and a place where she can do what she was born to do. Card puts a lot of emphasis on the genetically engineered plants she was growing(potatoes that would grow in Lusitania's tough soil). Her children are misfits, and she doesn't consider them children anymore. She is so obsessed with her plants, they are now her children. At the end of the chapter, we see Novihna sitting on a chair in her lab, pondering whether to go home or not. She doesn't know it, but her children need her now more than ever.