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Não, a árvore cresceria mesmo que o porco não fosse plantado.
Ao visitar as mães, Ender é avisado:
“And if you harm them,” said Leaf-eater, “we will kill you unplanted and knock down your tree.”
Isso significa que eles esperam que a árvore cresça mesmo que Ender seja morto sem plantação (isso é antes de ele dizer que os humanos não têm uma Terceira Vida).
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No entanto , os mortos devem estar no chão , com base em uma ameaça que Shouter fez à Ender quando eles começaram as negociações:
“She says you must teach us everything you know, take us out to the stars, bring us the hive queen and give her the lightstick that this new human brought with you, or in the dark of night she’ll send all the brothers of this forest to kill all the humans in your sleep and hang you high above the ground so you get no third life at all.”
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Agora, o que o "plantio" ritual faz, é permitir que uma árvore se torne uma árvore pai - mas não está claro se é uma distinção biológica ou ritual .
Quando Human discute com Ender que Ender deve dar a ele a honra, ele diz:
“And if we make this covenant between your tribe and ours,” said Human, “will you give me the honor of the third life? Will you let me rise up and drink the light?”
“Can we do it quickly? Not the slow and terrible way that—”
“And make me one of the silent trees? Never fathering? Without honor, except to feed my sap to the filthy macios and give my wood to the brothers when they sing to me?”E mais tarde, ao discutir a assinatura do Pacto:
“I know what you wish, my friend Speaker,” said Human. “To you it feels like murder. But to me—when a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him the passage.
Resposta original.
Yes, it seems so. When the pequeninos speak to Miro on the night of the Speaking, and they discuss the birth of 300+ new babies that may have been one of the "bad" things Starways Congress discovered, Arrow said:
.“They saw that food would be plenty,” said Arrow. “Now we’re sure to win the next war. **Our enemies will be planted in huge new forests all over the plain, and the wives will put mother trees in every one of them**.”
And Ender confirms it from what he learned from piggies that day:“But what if the dead don’t go to heaven? What if the dead are transformed into new life, right before your eyes? What if when a piggy dies, **if they lay out his body just so, it takes root and turns into something else**? What if it turns into a tree that lives fifty or a hundred or five hundred years more?” ... When the piggies kill one of their people, he is transformed into a tree.
And the piggies confirm it themselves when they discuss Human:Ouanda looked at Ender in surprise, then back at Mandachuva. “I thought everybody liked Human,” she said. “Great honor,” said Mandachuva. “A wise one.” Then Mandachuva poked Ender in the hip. “But he’s a fool in one thing. He thinks you’ll do him honor. He thinks you’ll take him to the third life.” "What’s the third life?” asked Ender.