So over the holidays i got frm sch, i was tasked to read a book and do a book review. I NEVER liked to read, not hate? But just an absence of love. But anyways, so i actually got to borrow this book frm my friend cuz apparently she says it can do magic and create wonders,. But in the end i just took it cuz it looked thin enough for me to finish it within 1 wk, so eventually, i took it.
Here's wut i wrote in my book review i submitted to my teacher after the sch holz, have a look:))
The most
interesting character for me would be Victor. In the story, he is depicted as a
rich businessman who has known nothing except for business his whole entire
life and this affects his personality a lot as a person. As a last stage cancer
patient, he is slowly dying away, so is his affection for his wife. However, as the story progresses, we get to
see Victor’s heart and mind slowly opened up to us as we get to understand why
he had everything but still wants more. He is the most interesting character
because he is someone who can make me interested because I can never predict
what is going to happen to him next in the story whereas the other characters
are more cliché, in the sense that we kind of know who the timekeeper is as the
story progresses and how Susan’s relationship is going to unfold. For victor,
however, because i personally cannot relate to him, I never know what he is
thinking and that is only revealed at the end of the whole story where we see
the change in Victor. I can never understand his near obsession with getting
more time, is it because he is unwilling to give up the so much that he already
has? Or is it because he just wants more? He is not impactful though, but his
story is impactful because his story revolves around 3 themes, love, money and
time. For love, we see how his wife, Grace loves him so unconditionally but
does not get the same in return from Victor. However, this changes at the very
end of the play. A sentence caught my eye and I kept reading it over and over
again because I was so moved by that one word.
“Victor had instructed Roger that if for some reason, any reason, he
changed his mind about this idea, he would signal it by saying one word and
roger would abort the plan. It happened, a word was spoken. He followed his
boss’s orders, as he always did, because the listened for the word and the word
was clear: Grace. ” This shows how love can truly change a person. What I
learnt from this character is not from the very noble things that he had done
(he didn't really do any), but from the change we see in him and from the
lessons that he learnt from the timekeeper. First, Money can never buy time and
love. There is absolutely no way you can do that because as said in the book,
“There is a reason god limits our days. To make each one precious. ” In the
end, we only regret the chances we didn't take. In life, there is only that
much time that you get, so treasure that and make every moment worthwhile,
because when you are at you deathbed, you want to be able to look back on your
life and think “Well, that was fun, if I could get a second try I think I’ll
like to do that again someday. ” Another lesson taken away is that you can
never control your fate, so don't try to. We want to live for today because we
never know what will happen tomorrow. If we can’t fight fate, we might as well
just accept it because no matter what, if its destiny, there’s no hide and seek
with it. Just like how Victor was faced with the fact that his deathbed was
awaiting him but he wanted to change that. Everyone dies, there no point in
fighting it. People love life because it is a pretty lie, but people hate death
because it is the ugly truth. But what they don't know is that there are no
lies that time will not reveal.
That's how amazeballz this book is, cool, isnt it?:)
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