in the book "ender's game" who was the "speaker of the dead" and what message did it carry from the hive queen

Question

and yes...i have read the book!

Answer 1

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was the original speaker for the dead. When he found the hive queen and communicated with her--he accidentally started his own religion. He wrote two books. One in which he spoke about the life/death of the hive queen. The second book he wrote was about his own brother, Peter Wiggin, who had become Hegemon of Earth after Ender had left on his colonization ship. (Remember time on earth varies from time spent in space travel. So the young boy Ender talked to his brother who was old and dying.) Both books through the centuries became thought of by many to be sacred texts. And the job of 'speaker for the dead' became an occupational option much like preachers or priests.

The message the hive queen spoke of peace, tolerance, love, forgiveness, and acceptance. It was an understanding of WHY the past had happened--and a hope that things would be better in the future.

Through the passing centuries...Andrew Wiggin chose not to be "Ender" the killer or murderer but Andrew, a respected Speaker of the Dead. He never really liked to reveal that he was the Ender from earth's past...or even that he was THE speaker of the dead.

Answer 2

To keep it simple:
Ender was the "speaker for the dead"
and he carried the message that the hive queen and buggers were not going to try and kill the humans.

Answer 3

Ender Wiggan became the "Speaker of the Dead" as he moved out into the colonized worlds and told people the plain truth about his brother and then about buggers and their worlds. Later this became a generic term for person who preformed this task at the death of any citizen.

Answer 4

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin. Speakers for the Dead are the wandering representatives of a Humanist movement (not a religion, though they are treated with the respect accorded a priest or cleric); they research the dead person's life and give a speech that attempts to speak for them, describing the person's life as he or she lived it. Speakers for the Dead seem to have arisen as a movement in response to Ender's 'Speaking' the life of the Hive Queen (and the life of Hegemon Peter Wiggin) in widely-read books that slowly subvert human hatred of the 'buggers' into sorrow over a Xenocide, the complete extinction of an alien race. Any citizen has the legal right to summon a Speaker (or a priest of any faith, which Speakers are legally considered) to mark the death of a family member.

Ender holds a public speaking for Marcão, Novinha's late husband; However, Ender cannot but help reveal secrets from the lives of Libo, Pipo, and even Novinha herself as their lives were all so delicately bound together by guilt, deception, and love. The Speaker explains how Novinha blames herself for Pipo's death, and underwent a life of suffering and deception--marrying Marcão so that they could both avoid the stigma of singlehood in a Catholic colony, but secretly trysting with Libo--because their love for eachother never truly died. The meaning of Pipo's and Libo's murders come out as well: the trees are the "third stage" in the life of the piggies. Trees grown from piggies killed normally become brothertrees, but the ritually dissected ones are done so in order to make them fathertrees--sentient, living trees that are, unlike animal pequeninos, capable of reproduction (the descolada is proved to be instrumental in these transformations). Finally, the Speaker for the Dead is able to work out a treaty with the piggies, so that humans and pequeninos might live in peace. Unfortunately, it is not without cost: Miro, distraught to learn that Ouanda is actually his sister, attempts to cross the fence, which separates the humans from the piggies, and suffers significant neurological damage. With no other way to save him, the colony declares itself in rebellion, Jane shuts off outside ansible contact, Miro is rescued, and Ender enters the forest to negotiate aforementioned treaty. He signs it "Ender Wiggin," and for the first time in his life, someone (Novinha) is prepared to receive the Xenocide with compassion instead of revulsion.

Valentine and her family come to Lusitania to help out in the rebellion, aided by Jane; Miro, with his crippled body, is sent into space to meet them; the Hive Queen is released, ready to begin the continuation of her species; and Ender marries Novinha.