Eric Fesmire Space Trilogy #1

In Perelandra, one of the ways Lewis distinguishes between Ransom and the Lady is  in language. This is apparent right away when Ransom speaks of peace and the Lady has no understanding of that word. Peace, in our understanding, is what the Lady is currently living in. But because she has no understanding of war, she cannot understand peace. For her peace is all of life, war would be even more of an alien concept for her.

The Lady and Ransom's interactions shift back and forth between Ransom being wise and the Lady being wise. What is interesting is that even when Ransom explains to her different things, Lewis has the Lady almost "misunderstand" it in such a way that a deeper theme arises. Where as Ransom might have just been talking about time, the Lady makes it into a talk of perception and maturity. In this way, Lewis has the Lady be a deep thinker. She thinks about things differently for sure, but deep none the less.

We see this very same type of writing in Out of the Silent Planet between the different alien species and Ransom. Each carry with them their own unique wisdom that is well argued and thought out even if, later, the reader sees it in a new light as something less than so. This  reveals Lewis' ability to write different cultures by their use and understanding of language alone. From out of the language comes the understanding of the world based on the narratives (or as one author calls it the "linguistic net") of that culture.