Human beings across the globe, regardless of cultural differences, are continually experiencing the effects of time. We either don’t feel we have enough time, we feel time passes too quickly, we feel time passing us by, we witness how things change over time, or time impacts us in a variety of other ways. Choose three examples from three different authors, what are three significant(specific) instances where we have seen time experienced by a character or discussed within a literary text? What is the context for the discussion or how is the character experiencing time? What lesson can we, as readers, take away from reading about time in these various contexts. minimum of 750 words. you can only use examples as shown below.
Examples you can choose
Borges, the garden of forking paths
Cortazar, house taken over
Solzhenitsyn, Matryona’s home
Walcott, ruins of a great house, Crusoe’s journal, north and south
Heaney, digging, the tollund man, the haw lantern
Munro, walker brothers cowboy
Garcia Marquez, death constant beyond love
El Saadawi, in camera
Al-Shaykh, the women’s swimming pool
Yan, the old gun
Allende, and of clay we are created
Diaz, drown
Bolano, sensini
Pamuk, to look out the window
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