By this time, Ender has launched himself headlong into the investigation of the deaths of Pipo and Libo. Novinhas family was at first resistant to the Speaker, but began to see him as a friend after he helped heal some of the deep wounds caused by the years of tension between Novinha and her husband, Marcaos. Ender and his computer helper, Jane go to speak with the Filhos de la Mente Christo, the Children of the Mind of Christ, to learn more about Novinhas childhood and her relationship with Libo. At this point, he has learned that they were having an affair, and Novinhas children are actually Libos.
There are several archotypal settings that begin to emerge in this part of the book. The forest, where the piggies live, represents a place of evil and mystery, where monsters live. However, the author portrays the piggies as friends of the humans, not monsters (although they are starting to emerge as murderers).
There is a river between the piggies and the humans, although it is not yet defined if the humans are on the evil side or the piggies. the reader is led to believe the humans are good, but after the xenocide, and the questionable ways of the church, the piggies might be the pure and good group.
More to come later, but for now, the only portrayed archotypical settings are the river and the forest.
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Is this a continuation of "Ender's Game", or is it a different story?
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