If anything, Ender is remembered way too well if he's three thousand years old, people should barely even know who he is, much less remember all the details of his life. The Hive Queen as a threat rather than a tragedy religion as something you have to hide, as Ender's father hid his Catholicism-those are moldy old stories.

The book he starred in, Ender's Game, is centuries past, and folks barely even remember that world anymore. He's history, folks, a relic of the far, long gone past. If you're more than three thousand years old, you're dust. Ender, Dead GuyĪnd yes, Shmoop has to confess-Ender is not literally, in-the-ground, skeletons-and-dust dead.īut still, Shmoop insists, he is symbolically, metaphorically, deadish.Ĭonsider this: Because of flying around willy-nilly on all those near-light-speed spacecrafts, Ender is more than three thousand years old. That's Ender, looking at life and light and bouncing with vitamins across the eons. I must listen to this voice and let its power come to me so I, too, can stare at the light and not die. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn't blind his eyes or drive him mad. That's why Miro sees Ender almost radiating life and power during the Speaking: The Hive Queen or Marcao keels over, and then Ender comes back and hooks them up to his super-alive empathy battery and pumps them full of life-juice. In fact, you could argue that it's just because he's so alive, so empathic, so connected to others that he's able to speak for the dead. He responds to life too, in all its forms, from Novinha to Jane to the piggies to the Hive Queen. Like live critters, he is super-tough (as Grego finds when he tries to stick a knife in him). In fact, you could argue that Ender is the most lively live thing in the book the most vital, the strongest, the most thoroughly alert and sensitive.

Look, there he is, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bouncing from planet to planet, spreading justice and dispensing wisdom, being awesomely interactive and interactively awesome. Now, we know what you're thinking-Ender isn't dead. Why is Ender the Speaker for the Dead? That's simple-because he's dead himself. Andrew Wiggins, the Speaker for the Dead (Ender Wiggins, the Xenocide) Ender: Live Guy

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