Ender’s Shadow (Raquel)
I just finished reading Ender’s Shadow (a parallel novel to Ender’s Game which I wrote about last February). While I enjoyed Ender’s Shadow at least as much as the first book I am not in the mood to analyze and explain why. Instead I will merely quote for you a couple of the parts that most resonated with me.
“He (Ender) walked down the corridor lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.”
“I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do this alone.
Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn’t true….Ender was was what Bean only wished to be–the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.
And then…he almost laughed as he thought, I don’t want to have to through what I’ve gone through to get here, either.”
Reading that makes me want to read the whole book. I have read Ender’s Game but I do not think that I have read any more in the series….I was scared that I would turn into a scientologist.