Who Is The Antagonist In Xenocide

In the book Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, the ideas between protagonist and antagonists vary because each type of living being on the planet, Lusitania, is going against each other for the greater good of their own species. The humans are dying off from the descolada, a disease that the pequeninos, an alien species that are structured like large pigs who can walk and talk, need in order to survive and move on to their third life as “fathertrees.” And the humans are trying to tame this descolada and have it no longer affect the lives of the humans, in doing so the pequeninos will no longer be able to move on to the precious and holy third life. But within all of these conflicts there is a greater conflict which will make both pequeninos and humans the protagonists and have them work …show more content…
The antagonist is a fleet of ships that has been sent to “observe,” actually destroy, the descolada virus. The only entity that is stopping the fleet from attacking is the human, Andrew Wiggin’s, friend Jane who has the ability to cut off communication between the fleet and Congress, the power of the hundred worlds also understood as every planet that humans are living on. So in conclusion the protagonists are the species living on Lusitania: the pequeninos and humans because they are fighting and studying ways that they can survive the disease and not be attacked by the fleet that is light-years away, and the antagonists are the fleet and descolada. The primary conflict in Xenocide is, alone, survival, but all together it is two big things. The first conflict is a fleet that is headed straight for Lusitania in order to destroy all living creatures on the planet, humans and pequeninos alike. So the race to