The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

     
          The plot is simplistic and contains mainly Dor, Sara, and Victor who's lives are in serious need of changing.

Character Roundup:

Dor

     Dor was different from others in size and perspective. He is also responsible for observing time and putting effort into tracking it. His lesson to learn takes a greater amount of time for him to accomplish but he still changes his stars.

Sara

     Sara is the typical teenage nerdy girl that doesn't have a fun experience in high school. Right off the bat she is impatient for time to go by so that she go places and meet people. Though we are given background information on both characters there wasn't a friend connection between myself and the characters.

Victor

     Victor is dirty rich and only cares about keeping his dynasty from others in the future and freezing himself until a cure for kidney cancer is revealed so that he could live again and continue to reign with all his money. Talk about one shallow guy. He didn't even tell his wife that he was going to freeze himself and leave her instead with large amounts of money hoping she wouldn't find out. The personal change with Victor was a bit harder to imagine since he seemed so flat in the beginning by being obsessed with his money and work. Accordingly he did change and returned to his wife but it was still not as believable as Sara and Dor.

Theme: Enjoy the small moments and focus on what really matters in your life primarily your family.

Tidbits: There are repeated religious allusions throughout the book. I seriously thought the book would end with how Sara and Victor changed their minds but when I read about For running back to Alli his wife and dying with her I was thoroughly pleased to see that not just Sara and Victor got a second chance.

Hints

• Sara Lemon's last name is to reinforce her negative and sour outlook she has on others and herself. By no means is she a terrible person but doesn't quite comprehend the entire picture of the world like many others. 
• Victor's wife "Grace" is also a subtle hint to being saved and that no matter what we can always be redeemed through grace which is what he did. Victor's code word to his assistant to back out of the freezing is "Grace"but it isn't until realizing the repercussions his actions would have on others if he continued on his previous course did he use grace to change his ways. 

                                        Author: J Feistner