Speaker for the Dead | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects 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.

Objects

Starways Congress - The government that rules all the Hundred Worlds.

Hundred Worlds - The collection of planets that humans have come to inhabit since the overcrowding of Earth.

Ansible - This is the computer network that connects all the Hundred Worlds to each other and the Starways Congress.

Buggers - An alien race the humans come into contact with during the overcrowding problems on earth.

Piggies - An alien race discovered on the planet, Lusitania.

The Fence - A barrier between the forest where the piggies live and the colony where the...
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