If only time were more pliable, moldable to fit our needs. Douglas thinks, “When you weren’t looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!” This theory reminds me of one found in the novel, Catch 22, by Joseph Heller. If you don’t enjoy life, the time moves slower, so therefore you have more time. This theory is a catch 22, a situation in which one is stuck between contradictory conditions. If you’re not enjoying the life you’re living, you have more time, but why have more time to not enjoy life? However, sometimes I wish time could drag on for the good times in life. I’m sure everyone feels the same way. How great would it be to change time! Fast forward through school and homework and make weekends last for weeks. I’m obviously not the first person to revel in this appealing idea. The movie “Click” and the time-turner Hermione uses in Harry Potter also follow this lovely plan. Changing time to work out for us never seems to work in fiction. It’s really too bad. No one wants to see an imagining like time changing shattered. I disregard the gobbledygook out there and imagine how life could be.
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Nice use of gobbledygook, and I quite agree, I think changing time could be used as a positive thing in books, not a disaster.
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