Carl Sagen's Contact Summary

The protagonist of Carl Sagen’s Contact, is Ellie. I believe her to be an unusually intelligent individual with a much greater awareness of the larger universe. We first encounter Ellie on page four at her birth, generally a time no one remembers in any specific detail, but the author wished to highlight her exceptional intelligence by noting she was cognizant at that early moment of life. In her opening dialogue she is only two years old. She expresses a reasonable request to be picked up by her father later on page 4, she is not super human as she uses a limited vocabulary of a toddler to do so. Her father goes on to explain, to another adult, he had a mature conversation with her and she simply adjusted her behavior. A simple act,