Blog: Dec. 10

After hearing the same criticism every Friday that my "nine-year-old daughter is reading the same book", (referring to the Thief Lord), (if your daughter is reading this, consider an accelerated enlish program for her) I decided to start reading a new book, The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. The first thing I realized about this book, is its style. For example: when a character speaks for the first time, it is written as "said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair"; the second time the book reads,"said the Psychologist"; the third time he speaks,"said the Provincial Mayor". This is an effective, although not very fluent way of introducing the character. The book begans as a character termed as the "time traveller" states the three dimensions as length, width, and height. But to introduce a new way of thought, he also claims that something must have duration, in order for it to exist. He is saying that the fourth dimension is time. The listener doesn't understand and tries to argue that his theory is against reason and that he is insane to think such a thing. The time traveller next puts an apparatus that represents a small lamp. He then pushes a lever and the apparatus disappears! The viewer is astonished and, and starts acting super weird (like anyone who just saw something disappear would). In the second chapter the POV switches to first person, and the new character goes to the time traveler to see for himself.