Jane Langton wrote a very interesting book. It goes with the other five fantasies of the Halls family, The Time Bike. The name of this book intrigues many people. It is about a kid named Eddy Hall. He gets a bike that he always wanted for his birthday, after it is stolen, he gets a package from India, and it was a box big enough for a bike.
In Concord, Massachusetts, Eddy Hall, an eighth grader, on his birthday got a new bike. He left it on his front porch through the night. Next morning the bike had vanished, this disappointed Eddy because he knew that his aunt and uncle could not afford to buy another bike. Eddy wanted to find out who did this. While he was at school, his aunt received a box from India. It had an old bike that once Eddy looked at he rejected right away. A couple of days later he decided to look at his bike from his distant uncle. He looked at its speedometer, but it was not one, it was a clock. Then by his characteristic of curiosity, he looks closer on to the clock and finds two dials that say: DAYS and YEARS. He looked at the tag on the bike and he noticed it said “The Time Bike.” Next Eddy shows the theme of the story by trying to take the easy way out and jump finals week so he can graduate 8th grade. Then he finds out that he fails every class, which then makes him go to summer school.
Eddy decides to make an easy trip and only go back one day. A fun day so he can live it once more. When he went back, he saw himself having fun, and saw his new bike that was stolen. He had solved who had stolen his bike. Once he came back to the real time, he wondered if he could fix things that went wrong in the past. He wanted to be the hero who saved time. Eddy left his bike in the back porch where it is stolen again, but it comes back the next day by its self with no driver. Next, he decides to help his Uncle, go to Henry Thoreau’s time to find out how he lived, and tell him. After, he decides to go to Rome, but then his sister Eleanor had taken the time bike.
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Story Time, by Edward Bloor, Harcourt: United States of America, 2001. 424 pages. Reviewed by Mar Vincent Agbay
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was an intriguing and exciting book about a Time Traveller and his journey’s through time. In this book, the Traveller explained to a group of men who were discussing the nature of time that time was the fourth dimension; just like the three dimensions of space: length, width and height. The Traveller argued that since time was a dimension, then it stood to reason that people should be able to move along the time continuum, into the past or the future. Most of the men do not seem to believe the Traveller or his theory, but agreed that they would like to travel in time, and talked about what they would do if they could. To illustrate his point, the Time Traveller went and got a model of his time machine from his laboratory to demonstrate and later returned to detail the places, things and people he had seen in his travels with his working Time Machine. Throughout the story, the Time Traveller faced setbacks and challenges, but the book outlined how he persevered and pointed to the future mankind faced.
In her novel The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey looks at how history can be misconstrued through the more convenient reinterpretation of the person in power, and as such, can become part of our common understanding, not being true knowledge at all, but simply hearsay. In The Daughter of Time Josephine claims that 40 million school books can’t be wrong but then goes on to argue that the traditional view of Richard III as a power obsessed, blood thirsty monster is fiction made credible by Thomas More and given authenticity by William Shakespeare. Inspector Alan Grant looks into the murder of the princes in the tower out of boredom. Tey uses Grant to critique the way history is delivered to the public and the ability of historians to shape facts to present the argument they believe.
People often use the expressions “a New York minute”, “time flies” and “wasting time” to describe the passage of time; however, these idioms indicate time is something that can be controlled, altered, or differentiated. Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad presents time exactly how it is: relative. Egan breaks away from the structurally conventional form of traditional novels and presents time as a “goon”, a foolish entity that controls every character in this story and hinders them from becoming successful individuals. This “goon” leaves no one unscathed; everyone faces the wrath of time and all that comes with it. Egan uses music, as well as the non-linear structure of the book,
Once the Time Traveler returns only one person believes the event that have unfolded. No one takes action to stop this future from happening and the Time Traveler disappears into the future never to be heard from again. The ending is meant to force the reader to think about whether they believe the problems that Wells wrote about, and if they will do anything. “The Day of an American Journalist in 1889” by Jules Verne depicts a utopia in the future that contrasts The Time Machine. The singular parallel is their failure to prolong the life of humanity. The narrator states after the failure of the experiment “As for yet no means has been found of increasing the length of the terrestrial year” (Verne 14). The terrestrial year stands for the longevity of the human race and they cannot change that. Whether there is a de-evolution or a creation of a utopia no one can stop time. These ideas tie into Asimov's idea of reactions of humans to scientific advancement, or lack thereof. One future is depicted as a Utopia and the other as a Dystopia but both fail in prolonging humanity's existence, which illustrates the need for many people to take action despite the odds. The end result is the reader forms a new perspective, that is the point of a time travel
A women doing life is a book that talks openly about women in prison. The author of the book who is also an inmate is known as Erin George. She explains vividly about women life in prison and what she was going through as an inmate. The book also gives other stories about other female inmates. The book presents a realistic of what women goes through on daily basis in prison. The issues addressed are both physical and psychological challenges. She talks on behalf of those women facing challenges on daily basis in prison. The books explain life events that tragic and heartbreaking those changes later to be uplifting and humorous. She gives a story of how she is able to cope and manage in hard situations. The women’s humanity inside the prison is well shown in this book as they try to make ends meet in their daily life. This book is vivid and very compelling for women. It is one of the best contributions of the author in literature. The book has a virtually flawless pedagogical approach. The author’s writing is to a great extent excellent and it has helped in creating awareness in literature about the historical context of women in prison. It explains beyond the little information presented in the media about women life in prison and the challenges they face as inmates.
Alice Walker combines the importance of time and place in Everyday Use. The story occurs in 1960’s during the African-American Civil Rights Movement. This was the time when African-Americans struggle with prejudice and poverty. They desire to maintain their minimal gain during the World War II and to define their personal identities as well as their heritage. The argument over family quilts takes place at the Deep South, where there are many African Americans, which match perfectly with the lifestyle the characters have in the story.
The year is 1944, 1945, 1964, 1967, 1968, and 1976 as Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. For many of us we see time as a river. It drifts listlessly from the springs to the ocean. We cannot touch the same waters twice. In the Novel Slaughter House five by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim discovers the true abounding nature of time. And that time is not a river, but the entire ocean, every water molecule a moment in time existing all at once in the vast blue of eternity.
Review of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine Science fiction is literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background. Examples of scientific films would be Star Wars, I robot, Matrix, Star Trek and many more. In a scientific film you will find unusual weapons, fast weird looking cars, aliens, lots of machines and funny costumes, all this things show us it is a scientific film. 'The Time Machine' is a scientific Film and novel, which was written by H.GWells.
While the Time Traveler was exploring, he found more matches and camphor, along with a mace to use as protection against the Morlocks. The Time Traveler finds himself stuck outside again at night and is surrounded by the Morlocks. Weena ends up fainting at his feet and he lights some of the camphor to scare away the Morlocks. He falls asleep and gets woken up by the Morlocks grabbing him. He hits them with the mace and runs away. While he is running, he notices that the Morlocks aren’t really after him. They are all running from the forest that caught on fire. The Morlocks don’t really attack him since they are blinded from the light that the fire is giving off. The Time Traveler assumes that Weena got left in the fire and died. After this, he realizes that the Morlocks are cannibals and that the Eloi are basically cattle. They’re so happy because they “know of no enemies.” The Time Traveler returns to the Sphinx statue and notices that it has finally opened and the time machine is in it. He knows that the Morlocks are trying to trick him, but he goes in anyways since he has his matches. Turns out that the matches fell out of his pocket sometime and the Morlocks start to attack him. He fights them off as he turns on his machine and he goes into the future. The first time he stops the machine, he lands on a beach. The beach has moving rocks, which turns out to be giant crabs coming at him, and he leaps in to the future again (33 million years ahead). This time, he notices that the world has turned white and there seems to be no life except for a blob that has black tentacles moving towards him. He goes back to his time and tells his story. He starts to question if it all really happened after the men still don’t believe him or the flowers that Weena gave to him that was in his pocket. He checks on his time machine and the men notice
Cien Anos de Soledad Style in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is closely linked to myth. Marquez chooses magic realism over the literal, thereby placing the novel's emphasis on the surreal. To complement this style, time in One Hundred Years of Solitude is also mythical, simultaneously incorporating circular and linear structure (McMurray 76).
As humans, we live in a linear timeline, never getting the chance to redo the past nor jump into the future without going through the present. In his short stories, The Garden on Forking Paths, The Secret Miracle, and Funes the Memorious from the collection Labyrinth, J.L Borges reflects on the nature of time and how the manipulation of the perception of time can play a role in people’s lives. Time, he suggests through these stories, is not as straightforward as people experience. Through the use of storytelling and his characters in these three narratives, Borges comments on the role of time as an illusion of the present and that reality should be questioned, although one’s path is eventually inescapable.
In conclusion, there were multiple science fiction traits shown throughout the story. The plot had taken place in both the past and the future. In the multiple areas of time, the important role of science was expressed. Despite the benefits of the science of time travel, this useful tool turned out to be the an issue. Through these elements of science fiction, Ray Bradbury warned readers of the dangers of time travel. Like his many other science fiction pieces, he used this short story to prevent a negative outcome. He wrote his works of literature to speculate what will become of the world. By doing so, he would achieve his goal and the purpose of science fiction, to change the world through the art of the possible.
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” (Jordan, 1).