In Woman on the Edge of Time, Piercy uses language to create the idea of ​​an ascent toward knowledge and the discovery of an unknown truth that will save the present. With Luciente's help, Connie will go from the dystopia of New York to the utopia of Mattapoisett. Piercy continually alludes to the journey north or the ascent. “Mariana had been uprooted from a village near Namiquipa, Los Calcinados, and emigrated with her family to Texas to work in the fields… When Connie was seven, they moved to Chicago…” (Piercy, 37). Ironically, this rise to knowledge and the future is neither progressive nor linear. It is rather circular and retrograde. Piercy uses his characters' names as well as the "common" language of Mattapoisett to examine the direction of the future. Names are underlined and are of great importance to the novel. Names like Luciente and Orion create a celestial or cosmic tone of the novel. Luciente is Connie's guide to the future. She is the light that guides Connie in her ascent into the future.. “...