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After I read all the Ender series (shadow and ender) I felt like I really knew a few people, them being: Ender Bean Miro Jane Wang-mu But the one main character who really is still a grey area for me is Valentine. I have read and re-read her PoV parts and maybe I'm just blind or something but I feel like they're covered with a shroud of mystique.
Your thoughts?
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Well that is in part because most of her life was spent traveling with Ender across the hundred worlds.
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I'm not saying that OSC should write a book about Valentine. I'm not saying that I need the gaps to be filled in. In fact, I like the gaps. Gives me space to stretch my imagination.
But I digress. I'm just saying that I never got a full understanding of Valentine like I did the other characters. Easy as that.
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I feel sometimes that Valentine doesn't need to be explained as much because we're under the assumption that everyone has had a Valentine in their lives. She is one of those characters that although independantly powerful and meaningful in her own way - is entirely dependant on how we percieve her from our own experiances. She is more of a symbol at times, especially in enders game then a person. She is to strong of a symbol in other books to require a book of her own.
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