While reading the Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, it is evident of the distinction between aliens and humans through the research conducted by Louise Banks and Gary Donnelly. Shown by the observations they made, aliens communicate through two different ways in comparison to the one language humans have. Aliens have a different language for writing and speaking where for writing, there is no written punctuation and each stroke represents a different verb and for speaking, there is a free word order. The heptapod/alien would also need to know what to write first before placing down the first stroke. This is different from the human language because we can write and speak the same one language as well as can make up stuff to discuss/write as we go without necessarily planning it ahead of time. In addition, the way us humans are formed affects how people perceive us and how people communicates toward us. For example, one’s age or gender changes how someone else may talk to you like if you were younger, someone might talk down to you as oppose to if you were older. However, with the aliens, it is still unclear how their body affects their behavior or if it has any correlation at all. Much about the aliens still remains unclear but the story provided a creative comparison between us humans and the heptapods that leaves room for speculation and further investigation if the story were to continue.