Characters from Speaker for the Dead

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Andrew Wiggin or Ender - He is responsible for the annihilation of the entire bugger race. He has spent thousands of years since the Bugger Wars moving from planet to planet as a speaker for the dead in order to attempt to find a new home for the hive queen he was able to rescue after the destruction of the bugger's home planet.

Novinha - She is a lost soul from the opening pages of the novel. She is a small child when her parents, the sole xenobiologists on Lusitania, die shortly after...
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