As she does so, two of the heptapods enter. Banks sets up her equipment for her linguistic fieldwork: "microphone, sound spectrograph, portable computer, and speaker" (97). Donnelly is assigned to learning about their physics and mathematics. She is assigned the task of learning about their language while Dr.
Banks's request to talk to a native speaker is approved, and she is taken out to one of the "looking-glasses"-communication devices that the heptapods have placed at 112 different locations on Earth. Banks informs him that an audio recording is not enough-she needs to converse to a native speaker.ĭr. Colonel Weber wants her to provide insight into the heptapods' language from a sound recording. At the beginning of the story, she is approached by a government official, Colonel Weber, and a physicist, Dr. Throughout the story, she narrates the events of her daughter's future life and recounts the arrival of a breed of aliens, referred to as "heptapods," on Earth. Louise Banks on the night her daughter is conceived.
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