The author is very descriptive when it comes to this whole process and her meetings. It took a turn when the narrator began to speak about the alien visitation. However, when she stated that her child would never get the chance to have that conversation with her, I knew that it was going to be different from what I was expecting. When it first started out, the narrator was speaking to her child about the night that she and her father decided to conceive her.
This story was very interesting and not at all what I was expecting. The continuity in the story makes it more cohesive and “real” despite having aliens (real in terms of emotions). It ends with Louise explaining that the heptapods’ language consists of events happening simultaneously and I think it is such a great way to tie the story together because Louise does just that-tells the story of “your” life in accordance to hers in one continuative narrative. As for the immediate conflict, it was trying to understand the purpose of the heptapods’ visitation and trying to decipher their language. As for the immediate and long-term conflict for the short story I thought that the long-term conflict was Louise trying to cope with “your” death by reminiscing on the times you were alive. Initially, I thought that jumping timelines made the overall story unfocused but it had the contrary effect, it allowed it to be more cohesive because you were able to understand Louise’s thought process and why “you,” as her child, were important to her accomplishments during the translation process (& it made the story sadder because she was reminiscing “your” life). The transitions to “your” childhood allowed the audience to feel more attached to the narrator, Louise, and her actions throughout the translation process of the heptapods. Despite having forty-five transitions with varied timelines, each event flowed together.
My initial thoughts were that it was going to be a straightforward you are “you” point of view storyline with a relatively realistic plot line-I was wrong on both accords due to the alien visitation and the subsequent “your” death.
I have to say that it was definitely not what I was expecting. “The Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang was extremely well crafted.
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