I just needed a place to put my thoughts but I’d love to hear other people’s reactions or analyses of it. The way he loathes killing but does it anyway out of that understanding just kills me but in a way that I understand the necessity of his actions and the way he thinks. The way he misses Valentine, loves and loses Jane, loves Novinha, emphasizes that to understand or know someone is to love them. In a way, his story feels so like the eleven year old from Ender’s Game, this powerful, cold, understanding creature who is crying out for love and warmth. The way Ender’s own character was written, as this man who was just so totally alone, who even in all his experience and years was still searching, unknowingly, for love and family nearly made me cry. It treated life- all life- with this simple respect, and painted war and conquest not as terrible or these huge crimes on an incomprehensible level but as this sad thing, worth not hatred and anger but rather pity and sorrow. ![]() This book could have very easily been a family soap opera- esque drama or a war book that celebrated human dominion but it wasn’t. It just says so much about humanity to me. The ending is so simple yet so profound, there’s the hive queen’s new life but also the threat of war and Ender’s family and the love he’s found. This book made me feel things and it’s been quite a while since a book has affected me in this way even though I’ve been reading a lot recently. The main character of the story are Andrew Wiggin. Speaker for the Dead pdf book was awarded with Hugo Award for Best Novel (1987), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1986). The book is perfect for those who wants to read fiction, books. I just finished Speaker for the Dead like four years after I first finished Ender’s Game but oh my god. Speaker for the Dead is a beautiful novel written by the famous author Orson Scott Card.
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