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Hey all. I'm new at hatrack and also to OSC's books (Just finished the Ender's Quartet). I wanted to discuss a question about the last part, "Children Of The Mind", but alas, i don't really know a lot of people here in Israel who read OSC, so i thought maybe i'd hear some of your opinions... In the last chapter of Children Of The Mind, Quara Tells Wang Mu about Quim molesting her as a child. Before the reader even begins to digest such a harsh twist of events - she rebucks the statement, using, in my opinion, alot of revesr psychology. What do you think about it? Did it really happen? Is this trully the reason of Quara's... ummm... Bitchiness? Is it the reason why she's described so quiet in "Speaker For The Dead"?
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Having just skimmed the book and re-read that part carefully, I think it's pretty clear, in my mind, at least, that he didn't. She's just making a point to Wang Mu.
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Welcome, binky. I agree with ketchup, but it's hard to say. I have recently re-read Children of the Mind and Ender's Game, but haven't read Xenocide nor Speaker for the Dead in years.
If it was just to make a point, it's a fairly psychotic way to do so, accusing a family member of molestation, then withdrawing it moments later and laughing at the gullibility of the listener. Which may have been Card's point: both the ambiguity (did it happen or not?) and the utter vileness of Quara's character, even it does have molestation as a root cause.
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In my family, we routinely say outrageous things as a form of sarcasm. Of course, we wouldn't joke about molestation, but it's not that far off sometimes. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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