Post A #2

Vocab

1. Subterfuge: an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc. n (73).
   
2. Overtone: an additional, usually subsidiary and implicit meaning or quality: an aesthetic theory with definite political overtones. n (87).

Figurative Language

1. "He had dreamed once of a star winking out every time a starship made the Park shift" (86). This is an example of personification because a star cannot truly "wink", but the phrase winking out means that it is destroyed or dies.
   
2. "But father was too recently dead for him to be spoken now. His tentacles still reached out of the grave and sucked at their hearts" (92). This is an example of a symbol because the father was abusive and disliked, and even though he is dead, he still seems to suck the happiness out of the family.
3. "He had long since given up feeling odd about the incongruity of storing the future of a magnificent race in a duffel under his bed" (97). This is an example of irony because not only is he storing the future of this race under his bed, but it is a race that he himself utterly annihilated; all except this last remaining hive queen.

Quote

1. The piggies will have a public relations problem, and the new anthropologer is only a boy" (59). This is an important quote because it sets up the chapter. The piggies seem barbaric to humans and since the new xenologer is only a boy, this is made even worse. At this time, the future of the piggies seems questionable at best.

Theme

1. The theme of this section of the book is acceptance of agnostics among catholics because of Ender's visit to Lusitania.