Emotions: The Value Of A Time Travel Story

For example, “They were out in the field as soon as breakfast was over, and southern Illinois at that hour was pink with sunrise and swelling redbud and clusters of bloom over the apple orchard across the road”(7). As the setting is described it creates a warm feeling that makes the readers feel enchanted and lighthearted. The author also allows the readers to feel peaceful and content. Mood is also used to enhance the story by creating an atmosphere that allows readers to feel different emotions and feelings. “If someone had asked Jethro to name a time when he left childhood behind him, he might have named that last week of March in 1862”(92). This gives the readers feelings of sorrow and anger. The atmosphere is used to bring the reader into the novel by allowing them to feel powerful and remorse for the characters. As a result, the mood creates a flood of emotions that helps bring the story to life through the setting and

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

It says in the text, “‘I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round. The sky was no longer blue. Northeastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars’” (Wells 132). This proves that the author develops the theme through the setting because there are no problems with the setting of the future time. Therefore, the Time Traveler makes no progress because nothing is going on in the setting.

Readers have to look at characters and their actions in order to reach the true heart of

Yet the past is always brought forth with the present. The “ghosts of his past” (Mizner 309) are symbolic of mistakes made and forever embedded in life. One could say time heals wounds however time does not erase wounds. One can see this reference to time in the way Helen’s sister the legal guardian of Honoria nearly has a breakdown when she thinks Charlie is still the same as he once was (Mizner 314-315). The details of her sister’s death are

However, she moves from a literal experience and memory to pensive reflection in order to create a contrast between the younger and older character. This is used by writing about movement from the past to the present and including its effect on the future. The varies of tense further highlights the changes over time as she focuses on the dualities of self and the universal emotions.

The “Era of Good Feelings” was a traditional name given to the years of James Monroe’s presidency, following the end of the War of 1812. Events such as the Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled the size of American land and proved the Federalist party didn’t have much as they opposed the purchase, and fighting against the Barbary Pirates which gained the American navy respect made people in America proud to be there and led up to the “good feelings.” The time was mostly characterized by an increase of nationalistic spirits as the Republican party become the single party in the United States after Monroe won against Rufus King, his Federalist opponent in the 1816 election. Nationalism would have a large influence on many features of American culture and economics; however, there were also many tensions growing during this time as well. There was much discourse over issues such as the national bank, tariffs, and internal improvements. The Republican party was the sole party at the time, it was also dividing, with many supporting what was once Federalist policies. Sectional differences over slavery and states rights would also have a major impact on politics and economics, with greater importance than the results of nationalistic influences.

The last line of the Time Machine by H.G. Wells really summarizes the moral lesson of the novel. Although it is not always experienced by the time traveler, 100 percent of the time, the protagonist has experienced it more than enough for it to stand

As MacLeod begins to reveal information we gain more insight into the life of the main character. The story starts in the present tense where our main character is living in a city and teaching as a college professor. However we are soon sent back in time as he recalls his childhood living in a minuscule fishing town. It is an interesting technique, especially as the story develops and we learn about his conflict. As we see his struggle and his fathers struggle, we have it in the back of our minds that he leaves his life in the fishing town to move to the city. We also know it advanced that he is in a bad place and that he has unhappy memories about his past.

When America entered the time called the “Era of Good Feelings”, there were numerous debates over issues such as congress and policies, and multiple compromises. There were some positive outcomes from this time period, but the negative aspects heavily outweigh the positive ones. Some of the negative aspects during this time period were the sectionalism that began to take place in the country due to controversies like disunion between the people, disagreement in political issues, and finally the rise of the effects of the War of 1812. The Era of Good Feelings” was a drastic step forward in American history and did represent a period in which progress grew and new ideas and compromises happened.

, the characters in the story often show emotions whether it be externally or internally. The

The airplane connects to the plot’s rising action, as the plot’s rising action where the Time Traveler uses a time machine similar to an airplane to transport himself to different places to explore very quickly. Planes are used to travel long distances across the world, faster than ever before. People who travel to distant places usually will experience new cultures, traditions, and changes. Like the airplane the time machine in the plot’s rising action teleports the time traveler into the future, to a different place where he learns the social differences of 802,701 AD.

In “A Scrap or Time and Other Stories”, Fink 's writings challenge this idea of restraints of moral behavior on critical situations, for example those who were either compelled or forced to go to Germany to do “charitable” labor for the Reich. The question really was, can they be judged by standards that overcome in these ceasefire societies? Fink tells individual stories in a modest way, in the sense that she seems to avoid using ordinary words. Instead, she uses images, symbols, and metaphors, especially those originating from nature to highlight these facts that allude to the overall picture of the short stories. This can be seen in the opening story, “A Scrap of Time, "The Garden That Floated Away," and "A Spring Morning." This very sense of symbolism and metaphors as well as the minute details throughout the stories as a whole aid in providing a coherent pieces that allows the reader to distinguish the fact that many of the stories are not only interrelated but written by the same author. In the stories, many of the people mentioned are influenced by two types of memory the flat one which records the predictable everyday events, and the jagged one which influences deeply into the unconscious layers of the mind. In “A Scrap of Time” this very essence of a flat memory that described the predictable was quite evident within the first couple of paragraphs, “I had left my house after eating a perfectly normal breakfast, at a table that was set in a normal way.” (pg. 4)

Who would've thought time traveling was possible? I didn't, not until I found my dad's suitcase. It was a cold day in Los Angeles, my mom and I were cleaning the garage piling all of my dad's old stuff together. It would've been easier to deal with his death if he didn't passed away a year ago. No one knew about his death or anything that's why there was no news about it until now. I kept thinking to myself "man, I've only talked to him twice in my life and now he's gone forever. I wish I could just see him one more time." As i start to space out, my mom yelled "stop spacing out and help me with these boxes dude!" Panicking, "Ok, ok!" She lets out a huge sigh and pulls out a black suitcase, "Hm, I've never seen this suitcase

People have often thought of going back in time because of regrets or mistakes they want to fix in the past. The only way to go to the past is time travel there. Time travel has been know as science fiction but now scientist have been believing time travel is possible based on the physics laws. If time travel is possible, then will it be helpful for human begins to go back to the past. Time travel can’t be worth it because if you change something in the past, it will affect a lot in your future. The people you thought you knew may not be the same people in the future because you change something in the past. There are different theories stating on that there may be parallel universe and other versions of us.