Bean and Ender
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:53 pm
In the Speaker series, Ender dies in a literal sense but not in a theoretical sense because his spirit lives on in young peter and young val.
In the Shadow series, Bean dies in a theoretical sense but not in a literal sense because he is on a starship going in and out of statis to prolong his life.
If you haven't noticed already, the "deaths" of Enderverse's two main characters are essentially opposites of eachother. This is a contrast, yet it is a similarity because they both get killed off at the climax of each series.
Why was it that Orson Scott Card chose to kill off his most essential characters? In my opinion, it leaves readers devasted, but it also leaves a lasting impression of the book. I cried for hours at each of these characters deaths. Was Card simply proving that his heros were human? Or did these deaths hold a deeper meaning?
In the Shadow series, Bean dies in a theoretical sense but not in a literal sense because he is on a starship going in and out of statis to prolong his life.
If you haven't noticed already, the "deaths" of Enderverse's two main characters are essentially opposites of eachother. This is a contrast, yet it is a similarity because they both get killed off at the climax of each series.
Why was it that Orson Scott Card chose to kill off his most essential characters? In my opinion, it leaves readers devasted, but it also leaves a lasting impression of the book. I cried for hours at each of these characters deaths. Was Card simply proving that his heros were human? Or did these deaths hold a deeper meaning?