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Project Text (Essay)

Kassandra Corral

Sean Pessin

English 114B

April 22, 2012

Relationships and Lies

Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card are two very interesting books.  Interesting because every page, every chapter leaves you wanting to know what happens next.  The first novel is about Ender and how he is going to save the world from the buggers, an alien race, for a third time.  But in the end Ender becomes a speaker for the dead and he did that by writing a short story as to why it was not necessary to kill the buggers and made himself look like the bad guy in this novel.  The second novel Speaker for the Dead does not revolve around Ender so much but deals with more with the new alien race called the piggies.  It also deals more with Novinha and her kids.  The relationships between adults and children are very interesting and somewhat complex throughout both novels by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game and “Speaker for the Dead.”  In both books only two things come into play lies, and the relationships between adults and children.

In Ender’s Game we have several examples of the relationships between adults and children, such as Ender and Colonel Graff. Their relationship is actually quite interesting because they get off to a bad start and throughout the novel I believe that Ender realizes that Colonel Graff loves him and has a lot of faith in ender. Although Colonel Graff is the one of the many who manipulates him he carries a lot of faith and love for Ender. He is also the only one who allows him to act like the child he is. Graff stays with him throughout the novel up until he gets sent to command school where he is passed off to Mazer Rackham.

Another complicated relationship Ender has is between him and Major Anderson. Major Anderson is second in command at the battle school. He is the one who creates the scenarios in the battle room at the school. Ender views Major Anderson as the enemy, when in reality, Anderson feels for Ender. Anderson questions some of Colonel Graff’s actions towards Ender.

The final adult Ender encounters is Mazer Rackham, a really old guy who in the past defeated the first bugger war. Like Colonel Graff, Mazer loves and respects Ender. Mazer is forced to deceive Ender into thinking he is simply being trained on simulators to prepare for the second bugger war when in reality Ender is not playing a game in the simulator but actually in the middle of the actual war. Mazer Rackham has to explain to Ender that no one but a child could have won the war. Mazer also does not try to make friends with Ender and I believe it’s because he knows that when Ender realizes that it was not just a mere game that Ender would be furious.

In contrast to Ender being manipulated by the adults around him, this is not always the case. Peter and Valentine, two kids, under the pseudonym of Locke and Demosthenes create a blog and manage to govern the universal political system through their control of adults. The children in this book are smaller than adults when it comes to size, but that is really the only difference. The children’s thoughts are just as real just as their emotions. Children need to be taken seriously; they are capable of not only of killing, manipulating, and hating, the foulest features of an adult, but also of producing and aiding.

In “Speaker for the Dead” the first relationship we come across is between Novinha and Pipo. Novinha is daughter of Gusto and Cida who died and Mayor Bosquinha and Pipo took care of her. She wants to become xenobiologist just like her parents, However she has to speak with Pipo first because he needs his approval to take the test. Novinha loves Pipo like a father.

Another interesting relationship is between Ender and Novinha’s kids. First it’s Ender and Miro. Miro somewhat likes him in the beginning, then he doesn’t like him because at Marcao’s speaking he reveals that all of Novinha’s kids are not of Marcao but of Libo, making Miro realize that he is related to Ouanda. Miro realized that he couldn’t really be mad at him because he only told them the truth, a truth that his mother would have had to eventually tell him.

Then we have Ender and Ela. Ela loves him right from the start. There is also Ender and Olhado. Like Ela, Olhado also loves him right from the start; however he becomes upset with him when Ender hurts his mother emotionally. Then Olhado eventually begins to speak to him again.

Another relationship is Ender and Quara. Quara somewhat likes Ender, but she is a very quiet girl. She hasn’t spoken a single word for a while and then when he arrives Ender doesn’t get her to speak but the next day in school she begins to talk and tell everyone in school about him. Nevertheless she likes him in the end since one eventually reads that she is at his place showing of her math skills.

There is also Ender and Quim. Quim is the one who was brainwashed by the bishop to make quim believe that Ender was the devil, so he hates Ender and everything that he represents. In the end he becomes accustomed to ender since he is going to be staying for a long time.

Finally we have Ender and Grego. Grego hates him but when you think about it Grego kind of hates everyone. Grego then does something that no one has ever seen him do before he begins to cry and then eventually falls asleep while hugging Ender. Ender loves all the kids Miro, Ela, Olhado, Quara, Quim, and Grego. He loves that they are all very different from each other.

Finally we see the relationships between adults and children in Novinha and her children. Like any other mother she begins loving her kids as a mother should, however with all the hatred their father has on them, not one of them being his kids. His hatred towards her kids rubbed off on her sometime, I believe it was before Grego was born. In the end with some help form Ender she began to love her kids again. She had more hate towards Miro especially since he looked exactly like his father, Libo, which was her true love but since she did not want him to access some of her files, so she married Marcão.

One final relationship that we have is between not adult to child or child to adult, but from but from adult to alien.  This relationship is between Ender and the hive queen.  The relationship begins with him being a child, at the end of the first book “Ender’s Game,” but it evolves more in the second book “Speaker for the Dead.”  Ender and the Hive Queen have a special connection and since the Hive Queen can’t speak she speaks to him through her mind.  Another interesting relationship that Ender has is with Jane a computer program.  Once Ender placed the ear piece on himself and Jane came to him because she found him interesting and thought that of all the people he would understand her, the most, of whom she was and why she was.

A second thing that comes into play in these two books is lies.  In the first book “Ender’s Game,” we have the constant lying to Ender.  Ender was first lied to when Colonel Graff came and told him that Stilson was in the hospital, when in fact the beating that Ender gave him resulted in Stilson’s death.

Another lie that Ender was told was when he was being trained for the war against the buggers.  He was never told that he was in fact already in war with the buggers, because as far as he was concerned he was simply training on a simulator, which is like a video game.  And when Colonel Graff and Major Anderson were put on trial he found out that the fight that he had with Bonzo in the bathroom also resulted in his death.

In Speaker for the Dead there are constant lies going around such as the fact that Ender is “dead” when in fact he is still alive but better known by his actual name Andrew Wiggin instead of his nick name.  Another lie, that came out was that Novinha’s kids were not Marcao’s but in fact Libo’s.

So as one reads both novels by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead one can find that these science fiction novels are hard to put down and quite interesting.  In “Enders game,” you can see all the complex relationships between adults and children and how Ender lacks authority in the first novel.  In addition to his lack of authority and respect he is constantly being deceived instead of being told the truth.  In Speaker for the Dead you can also see all the complex relationships between adults and children which revolve more around Novinha’s kids and Ender and Novinha and her very own kids. You also find these interesting relationships between Ender and the Hive Queen and Ender and Jane.  In this novel one sees that Ender is constantly deceiving them about his identity as Ender. So when one reads these two novels you will find complex relationships between adults and children as well as lies.

Works Cited

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor Science Fiction, 1994.

Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead. Tor Science Fiction, 1994