Book Report: Speaker for the Dead

  Speaker for the Dead was a book by Orson Scott Card. It's from the third person view with thoughts from the perspective, where you follow Ender and some others while going thru a tense relationship with an alien species. It's slightly dense, but it's awesome. I shall go on and begin the posting of larger sentences in the next paragraph. (Warning: Spoilers! !sreliopS) Boom:

The first part is about Pipo's friendship with one of the main characters. Pipo was a Xenologer, who studied the other civilized aliens nicknamed 'piggies'. He goes, talks to them regularly, and then one day he goes and gives the test to become a Xenobiologist to a girl named Novinha. After a long period of working together, Novinha discovers something, and Pipo sees something in it and leaves without telling her what. She and Pipo's son, Libo, find him dead with his chest open and the organs moved around.

The second part is Ender's entering of the planet. Novinha calls for a Speaker of the Dead (Even though the planet is Christian.) but recalls it 5 days later. However, he's already on his way, and as 22 years go by (Only 2 weeks to Ender, because of the speed of light.) and two calls for a speaker come in. Ender enters the planet. One is for Libo, and the other was for Marcos, who died 3 weeks earlier. The bishop orders that NO ONE is allowed to give him any information, but he finds a way to get it anyway. He goes to the house and meets with the several children of the late Marcos, before Novinha comes home. When she does, she refuses to talk to him.

The third part is Ender slowly figuring out not just Marcos life story, but Novhina's one as well.After some small arguments, he leaves. He gains info about the late man, and is forced to threaten someone in order to get some important information. He also learns about Novhina and Libo. He goes and becomes like Sherlock Homes. Just kidding, but he's really good at telling the Truth.

The fourth part is Ender's 'Speaking'. He talks 'about' Marcos, but he instead tells the truth about Novhina, Libo, and the kids. He figures out that Libo and Novhina were having a affair, and loved each other, but she could never marry him because of how he'd look at the locked files and die the same way Pipo did. Everything goes insane, he's called the devil, and other stuff that's going wrong.

The final part is about the rebellion of the planet. Someone reported that the Xenologers were artificially helping the 'piggies'. The planet cuts off it's connection to everyone else and begins helping them openly, with both electricity and agriculture. While it would take 40 years for the evacuation group with the weapons to stop them come, the war started as soon as it was revealed that they had a weapon of mass destruction with them. The piggies tell them that they fought they were doing Pipo a honor, and almost goes hyper on each other in pain. Ender plants himself there even though he has his starship, and that's where the book ends.

Whoowh, done.

Adventure Van, out.