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Liking What You See: A Documentary

Important Characters

Themes/Concepts

Rachel

Daniel

Martin

Tamera

  • Main character of story.
  • Daughter of Martin and Rachel.
  • Got her Calli reversed.
  • She was in a relationship with Garret.
  • Father of Tamera.
  • Husband to Rachel.
  • Believes that Calli is overall beneficial.
  • Quote from Martin, “Becoming preoccupied with how you look is just one way to be crushed, and anything that can relieve that pressure is a good thing, in my opinion.” (Chiang pg. 4).
  • Professor of comparative literature at Pempleton
  • Interviewed about his perspective on calli
  • Believes that Calli is not beneficial for society
  • Quote from Daniel, "This is just the latest example of political correctness run amok. The people advocating calli are well-intentioned, but what they’re doing is infantilizing us. The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting." (Chiang pg. 16).
  • Mother of Tamera.
  • Married to Martin.
  • Believes that Calli is beneficial for society.
  • Quote from Rachel “Some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on their looks, and then they never develop their minds. I wanted to keep Tamera away from that sort of influence.” (Chiang pg. 4).

Calliagnosia

  • Main topic in story
  • Type of technology used for humans.
  • Calli is short of calliagnosia.
  • Calli is used to block beauty and attractiveness in others.
  • Calli can be reversed in humans.
  • Used to bring more eqaulity among people.

Transhumanism - technology aiding humanity.

  • Calliagnosia is aiding in the ability to stop humans detect beauty in others.
  • Calli also aids in bringing equality among people by making everyone not see beauty.

Utopia - an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

  • Calliagnosia is trying to make the world a better place by making everyone equal in beauty.
  • Calli doesn't make one person more beautiful than the other.

Technology and the body - technology used in the human body to enhance the human body.

  • Calli used in humans eyes to block beauty.
  • Calli can be reversed.

Author Background:

Ted Chiang

  • Ted Chiang - Author of Liking what You See: A Documentary
  • Born on October 20, 1967 in New York.
  • Graduated from Brown University
  • Liking What You See was published in 2002
  • Won 10 awards science fiction awards for his works.

Liking What You See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang

Study Guide

By: Michael Dittmar

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