Time In Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad

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What is time? This a question many throughout history have attempted to answer. To some it is defined as a measure of events that can be ordered from the past through the present and into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them. Einstein taught us all that time is relative. In many cultures and in several works of literature, time has been personified in various forms. As we have discovered through experience time is both confusing and indefinable , yet it is in the end inescapable. This concept and the personafication of time is nicely exhibited within Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. In the novel she approaches time in an unique way as the tale is told as a sequence of stories about

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