Post B #5

Dear Orson Scott Card,

The suspense you have created at this point in the novel is killing me! Ender is not only extemely respected by the piggies, but he is also given everything he wishes for. None of the Zenobiologers had ever seen the piggies cut tools out of a tree before, but Ender was able to get them to do it in a matter of minutes. Ender has also been revealed as the writer of the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, which I would have assumed would be surprising to Libo. But, Libo doesn't really seem to care that much and dissmisses Ender as a fake. This section of the story could be compared to the war in Iraq right now because when the U.S. entered Iraq, we made vast changes in a matter of days, but the United States population does not seem to want to believe it. The liberal media is just killing me because it is so anti-war at the moment that it is willing to skewer details and only present items that make us look bad. When the media in a country is seemingly against the country, you know something is wrong.

Also, Ender is continuing to befriend Novinha's children and learn secrets from them. Ender now knows of cao's abusiveness and Novinha's secretivity. The biggest change at this point is that Ender was allowed in the piggies' forest, which is against the Starways Congress' code. It is also confusing to most sane people because the piggies had recently murdered two Zenobiologers, so why would someone want to visit them? This can be compared to radical feminism because it is so crazy that it doesn't make any sense. It is ok for women to want equal rights, but not ok for women to want equal rights AND special treatment in the workforce, benefits, and society. If women want to truly be treated as equals to men, then so be it. The problem is that once women realize that every advantage they had in the world has dissappeared, they will want to be special again.