Xenocide by Orson Scott Card - Connections of all types!

Alright so I know that last week I said that I was really enjoying the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. And I am! I promise! It's just that this week I had a lot of homework and a lot of tests and a lot of stuff after school and just leave me alone OK! I just haven't had much time to read this week, OK!? Alright anyway I am still enjoying the book, I just haven't had much time to read. So that is why I decided that this week I would post about connections to the book. There may be some spoilers, so watch out. Honestly, I don't know if there will be yet since as of this point I have not typed the rest of this post, so just watch out for spoilers.

The first connection that I have made is a text to self connection. It is this; in the book, (Oh, wait, SPOILER ALERT!!) Grego has started a mob that intends to kill the pequeninos, and he is trying to stop it so that he does not have countless deaths on his conscience. I felt the same way before. Well sort of - don't take what I just said the wrong way. In the past, I have specifically tried to do things so that I did not have something bad on my conscience, just on a much smaller scale than Grego. For instance, I always do my homework to avoid the guilt of not having done it when I get to class and the teacher checks for it.

The second connection that I have made to the text is a text to text connection. In the book, Starways Congress is very angry at the people of Lusitania because they have given the pequeninos technology that they have not yet developed for themselves. The connection is that in The Doctor Who books, The Doctor is always very careful not to give the local people technology that is ahead of their time (He is a time traveller). The only difference is that Starways Congress is the antagonist while The Doctor is a protagonist.

The third and final connection is a text to world connection. In the book, they have the ability to travel in space. We also have this ability in 'real life', albeit it is to a much lesser extent, seeing as in the book they have colonized hundreds of worlds and have the ability to travel at near light speed, and in real life we have only made it as far as the moon. But yeah. Connections.