ENG237H1 Chapter Notes -Lobes Of The Brain
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Told from a nonhuman point of view. The point of view functions as a powerful lens for perceiving the every-day human experience of gender, specifically the estrangement from self inherent in a traditional feminine role . The aliens are of one sex and only have one brain lobe. They live in glass bridges or crystal palaces . They carry out similar activities as humans. One radical difference: they are all eventually put into the cell bank and reborn. Humans encounter them first to explore, but later to study. The humans seem to act as colonizers; the aliens work for them and try to blend in. The main character is focused in its studies but is told to take on the face of a human in order to earn money. Dr arnold proctor is studying kootas , the racing dogs that the aliens breed. The alien takes on the form of martha dow to work for dr proctor.
