OR Quote 8: the reason behind it all

“’What is this water?’
‘It’s how we show pain or grief or suffering’
‘Ah! Ah! I have seen that water before! In the eyes of Libo and Pipo I saw that water!’
…’They didn’t know until this moment that Pipo and Libo were crying when they died’
…’Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.’
‘Human, tell your people not to grieve for what they did in ignorance’‘It was a terrible thing, it was our greatest gift.’" (Pg, 239-240; Ch. 14)

The purpose of this quote is to explain the reasoning behind an action of murder the piggies committed in the first chapter of the book. As it says… they did it to honor the 2 xenadors, however to anyone human, they would have seen it as murder (and did). This sheds a lot of light on whether the piggies are raman or varelse, and this makes it out to be raman (since the action had purpose and was not more or less random or savage.).

OR Quote 7: The hive queen?

“You could bring him here, but you don’t. Everything depends on you bringing him here. Rooter says the hive queen can’t give us her gifts unless he comes.” (Pg. 201; Ch. 13)

The purpose of this quote is forshadowing... it hints towards Andrew bringing the hive queen to the piggies, although this could be completly wrong... this is just what i took from it when i first read it.

OR Quote 6: Who's call is it anyway

“’I’m not the master, I-‘
‘That’s right, you’re not’
‘But Libo was my father, so of course I’m the’‘Zenador by blood right, is that it? So what am I by blood right? A drunken wife-beating cretin? Is that what you want me to be? A little copy of my paizinho?’” (Pg. 204; Ch. 13)

The purpose of this dispure it to get us thinking "who really IS in charge of the expeditions into the woods? who's the aprentice of who? they both have the same connections to the old and deseased Zenador; he was their father" of course they don't know that and this is why they are having this fight.

it adds a nice little trist tot he plot to think about on the side... i like it.

OR Quote 5: Jane

"And yet, compared to the human mind, even Jane’s lowest level of attention was exceptionally alert. Because ansible communication was instantaneous, her mental activities happened far faster than the speed of light. Events that she virtually ignored were monitored several times a second; she could notice ten million events in a second and still have nine-tenths of that second left to think about and do things that mattered to her. Compared to the speed at which the human brain was able to experience life, Jane had lived half a trillion human lifeyears since she came to be." (Pg. 174; Ch. 11)

Jane's a computer... if you didn't catch that...anywho the reason this quote is significant is because later it explains that those 9/10ths of a second left she spends observing Andrew wiggins through the crystal in his ear, and just before this, he had turned it off. later when he turns it back on, she ignores him... and i think i would too if i had to wait 50 thousand years to to be able to use 9/10ths of my brain again... (only a couple of hours in real-time)

OR Quote 4: Adultery

He’d rather believe somehow Ivanova’s parents didn’t notice that Marcos had the disease, and so she married him in ignorance, even though Ockham’s razor decrees that we believe the simplest explanation: Marcão’s decay progressed like every other, testes first, and all of Novinha’s children were sired by someone else…What I don’t understand, if why Novinha didn’t marry Libo in the first place. It makes no sense at all for her to have married a man she obviously despised, whose disease she certainly knew about, and then to go ahead and bear children to the man she must have loved from the beginning.” (Pg. 140-141; Ch. 9)

it does if she's trying to hide certain files from him only accesible to a husband of hers... what better target then a husband who's bound to die and most likely doesn't care about anything else...but that's not the importance of this quote. the importance... it that we learned that all of Novinha's children were illegitimate, and their real father was Libo... making the connection for quote #3.

OR Quote 3: Sister from another Mister...what about the mother?

"You’re right, too…I saw him come in with his healing touch and I thought, if only he had been my father. Just the way I used to say that every day when I went ho9me from the Zenador’s Station. If only Libo were my father, if only I were his son. She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. 'Ah, Miro, I’m glad he wasn’t your father. Because then I’d be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.'" (Pg. 150-151; Ch. 9)

well as my title may have already hinted at... they in fact are brother and sister, however it is only a speculation at this moment... not a fact (but the evidence is very solid). it's significant because it is the first time that we see these two love eachother, which will inevitably create a conflict when the discover the truth about their relatedness.

OR Quote 2: The BIG One...

"Tell Libo not to bother coming, just show him that simulation and see if he can figure it out before I get back. He’ll know- it’s the answer to the big one. The answer to everything." (Pg. 30; Ch. 1)

It’s too bad he dies.... I wanted to know the answer to everything... the purpose of this little speech is to get us gripped into the story... as I experienced, I wanted to know the answer to everything, and this little quote was a good clincher to get me to read the entire book to the end to find out.

OR Quote 1: History of Wutan in Trondheim

all quotes are from the book Speaker for the dead, written by Orson Scott Card

"The Nordic Language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling- Demosthenes merely drops the accent from the Nordic främling. This is the stranger that we recognize as being a human, but of another world. The third is raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which include all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible." (Pg. 32; Ch. 2)

The importance of this quote is that it describes the 4 words used throughout this book to describe the aliens known as the piggies, who are a newly discovered race of seemingly intelligent beings. Without these descriptions, it would be very confusing to read those parts of the book when it is debated whether the piggies are raman or varelse.

AtPH

dude he got shanked...

i just finished chptr 3 and that fight was intense... i actually paid attention to that part... hope there's a few questions of that part on the test :)

so they escaped... yay, and Rawlins's going home, while grady goes back into the lions den... oooo

OR-SfTD

i havn't read much since last post since i was about 100 pages behind in AtPH, so i've been catching up on that

to sum up what i read on wed... this little computer thing became lonely and contemplated whether to take revenge on Andrew Wiggins for shutting her off, or to forgive him... in the end she (Jane; the computer) chooses to forgive him...

all the pretty horses

umm.... erm.... no... not really...

SO FAR.... this book has put me to sleep... i cannot concentrate when i read it, as it is too dull and bland for me to stay awake. NOT to MENTION the MAJOR lack of punctuation this book has... i don't even know the difference between dialogue and description


i hope this book turns out better like yalls said it would, cause right now i see a fat F- for my grade on this book...

he said she said ouch... (OR)

so she can't marry him because then he would know the secret she was trying to hide from him, so he marries another man whom she actually hates, and happens to be infertile and cannot have children, however they have 6. so later we find out that she was indeed "playing scrabble" with the original him, but only they know it. both hims are now dead, and there are a total of 10 children, 4 from the original him with his true wife. a she from the "she/he" and a he from the "he/wife" (unknowingly) become deeply affectionate of eachother, not knowing that they are indeed brother and sister.

that hur my head when i read it (of course it was not as crappily written like that)

and to finish it off... Andrew Wiggins is about to speak the truth for both of the dead husbands, revealing the detremental truth.

--SftD

i am enruhmed

yay it's the weekend...oh wait NOT...

guess what i've got a cold this sucks... blowin' me nose every 2 minutes is NOT a way to spend the weekend... as for saturday... might as well have been another school day... i went to a soccer referee registration clinic... so yay i'm certified boo it was no fun

if that were not bad enough... i feel depressed looking onward to monday... knowing i have a euro quz that i willl undoubtedly fail...**cut**

dude... rad...

whoa so i read the first chapt of Speaker for the Dead, and dead they were... right off the bat, in the first chapter. there's these 2 people one's an alien, and both of them get there guts ripped open... IN THE FIRST CHAPTER!!! they were the main focus of the first chapter too, so you get that feeling of "oh i imagine these 2 chars are prolly the main chars of this book" but NnNnNnNnOoOoOoOoOoOo... their DEAD now... not too IMPORTANT ANYMORE!!! the book also goes incredibly fast... i'm on chapt 5 or 6 and it's already 25ish years after the event of the first chapter... it's kinda weird

is anyone out there LISTENING TO ME!!

so this is me a few weeks ago:
DOES ANYONE READ THESE FLIPPIN POSTS??? I FEEL LIKE MY LIFE IS BEING WASTED RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES!!!!

and this is me now:
. . . is he online? i bet he's watching me right now...maybe if i write smaller he won't be able to read what i post...this is really scary... PK are you out there???? *wimper* (TAS stands for The Amber Spyglass... go away please)

BOO

i have no life... anywho i usually re-read what i post, and when i do, my happiness goes down a few notches... as i realize that i cannot make a sentence that makes sense because i don't proofread it after i've finished, right before posting, i also stand up arbitrarily in search of something to eat, often loosing my train of thought of what i had just posted, and C: because sometimes i like using sophisticated words randomly in my text, making it flow weirdly



ok THIS post is REALLY RANDOM and if it doesn't make all that much sense to you dun worry about it. . . you can just wait till next week to read up more on

oh ok go RUIN MY FUN. . .

what? what? I CAN'T FINISH MY SERIES?!?1, ok well that's cool, i'll just finish a DIFFERENT series. how do you like THEM APPLES???? PRETTY #$%^ HARD, EH?

ok back on track, so because i can't read TAS, i was forced to go out and BUY a different one (since i have books 1,3,4 in the series, but not 2) and the BOOK i bought was Speaker for the Dead, the sequal to Ender's Game, which is quite posibly THE best book i've ever readed, possibly next to Eragon/Eldest (and when's the 3rd book gonna come out??). well i've not yet started the book, but once i do i'll update ya :D

Homer... and not the Simpsons one--

I had one mother of a headach when we started this book, so i couldn't concentrate at ALL when i read the first 3 chaps--so consequently, i think i did really bad on the quiz
thank god for sparky

i did actually read them chaps... i just looked at Mr spark afterwards :D

The Amber Spyglass

i started this book a few weeks ago, and yeah, it's the final book in the trilogy i've been reading for OR. well i've heard the ending (last 6 chapters) of this book are bad... and i shouldn't read them. well if i don't read them, i wont know what hapens in the end of the series and it would make it a tad hard to write an essay (in which i apparently already suck at writing) with no conclusion.

well i'm gonna give it a shot... less reading for me anywho




kiding... in case u actually took me serious. . .

TSK

wow i did not like the first or the last question of that test... but between the two, i chose the last. well, i think i did A- B+ work on that...

idk if i said this but but i'm gonna be reading the 3rd book for 3rd quarter... fun fun

winter break is over

i'm bummed... winter break was (of course) too short... and school starts tomorow, and waking up at 6:30's gonna suck bad...wonder if i'll be able to do it >.<

i did however enjoy the 2 weeks off, and no, i didn't go anywhere for winter break, 'cept relatives' houses.

TSK

i've finally finished reading the Subtle Knife and it was such a cliffhanger...
the book ends right as the main charecter is stolen and all of here bodyguards are "killed"

makes me wonder if she's considered the "main charecter" in the 3rd book then if it's (most likely) gonna start out with different perspective.

well onto the 3rd of 3 in Philip Pullman's trilogy.

TSK

i've finaly found out what the Subtle Knife is.... and i want one....

it's a magical (of ocurse) knife that can "cute" through any material with the greatest of ease, including space itself.... which is how Lyra and Will (the 2 main chars) travel between worlds (they cut a whole in the air that leads to another paralell world) (perollel parallellograms? who knows how to spell that word...)