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The Time Keeper
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The Time Keeper (2012) by American author Mitch Albom is a fable that explores the themes of Humans’ Relationship with Time, The Need to Live in the Present, and the Acceptance of One’s Mortality. The inventor of the world’s first clock, Dor, is punished for measuring time and banished to a cave for thousands of years where he becomes an ageless Father Time. Eventually, he is granted his freedom with the condition that he must teach two contemporary human beings—a teenage girl contemplating ending her life and an elderly businessman who wants to live forever—the true meaning of time using a magical hourglass and his own experiences as a mortal man and immortal being. The novel is narrated in third person, which occasionally directly addresses the reader and employs Albom’s signature spare prose punctuated with bolded statements.
Albom is a celebrated sportswriter, fiction writer, playwright, and screen writer. His 1997 memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson, was adapted into a television movie in 1999 and a stage play. His nonfiction work Unlock all 63 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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