![]() It’s a calling that requires an insightful mind, great empathy for others, and the ability to tell the truth despite how hard that truth may be to hear.Īs a Speaker for the Dead, Andrew Wiggin is very good at his job. They reveal who this person was, and in the process try to help those left behind understand them. ![]() They do not give eulogies, where they try to paint the dead in as good a light as possible. Their job is to learn about the dead, to understand who they were and who they wanted to be, and then tell the truth as plainly and as clearly as possible. While given the same reverence and privileges as priests, Speakers are not the same. There’s too much to say, there’s too much that even the author doesn’t know yet, and to go forward from that state of ignorance will result in what is, ultimately, an inferior narrative.Īndrew Wiggin, the Speaker for the Dead, comes to the human colony Lusitania in order to speak the death of a local man, Marcão. They get a Big Idea in their head, something with great depth and complexity and meaning, and quickly discover that they don’t actually know what they’re writing about yet. I think this is something that probably happens a lot to authors. ![]() In his introduction to the book, Card says that the main reason he wrote his most famous book – Ender’s Game – was so that he would one day be able to write this. ![]()
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