John Paul Wiggin
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John Paul Wiggin (Polish: Jan Paweł Wieczorek) is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's Ender Series. He has appeared in novels "Ender's Game", "Shadow of the Hegemon", and "Shadow Puppets", and is a central character in a prequel to Ender's Game - short story "The Polish Boy".
John Paul is the father of Ender, Peter and Valentine Wiggin, and the husband of Theresa Wiggin. He is named after "the great Pope, Saint John Paul II".
John Paul was the seventh child born to a family of nine in Poland, which at the time, during the Formic Wars, was against the Hegemony's overpopulation control laws. This caused his family to be labeled non-compliants, because they had more than the maximum of two children. However, they felt that staying true to their Catholic faith, which stated that each child sent to them was a gift from God, was more important than listening to any government, including the international Hegemon.
John Paul came to the USA and lived there as a student, under the name Wiggin. He met Theresa Brown, who was a teacher of one of his classes. He courted, and later married her. A short story of their meeting was published recently by Card, Teacher's Pest.
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