63 pages • 2 hours read
Mitch AlbomThe Time Keeper
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Explore the symbols and iconography of Father Time in European art and literature. How does Dor’s Father Time reflect and differ from traditional depictions of Father Time?
Discuss the ways modern timekeeping plays an integral part in how both Victor and Sarah define themselves and their lives. How do their experiences with timekeeping compare to the imagined reader that the narrator addresses?
What role does the acquisition of knowledge and power play in the fable? How does the search for knowledge and power relate to the relationship between Dor and Nim, both as children and adults?
How do the actions of the secondary characters influence the actions of the protagonist and deuteragonists?
How does the structure of the fable juxtapose the protagonist and deuteragonists and secondary characters? How do the bolded phrases and statements influence the structure of the chapters?
Choose one of the secondary characters. How does that character’s journey relates to theme of Humans’ Relationship with Time?
How does the allusion to the biblical figure Nimrod and the Tower of Babel influence Albom’s portrayal of Nim’s character and his tower?
Describe one of the temporal settings in the fable. How does the setting shape the development of one of the characters?
What is the role of the supernatural in relation to Dor’s transformation from a mortal man into Father Time?
Fables are a didactic literary form that often have an explicit moral. At both the beginning and end of The Time Keeper, the narrator states that “[t]his is a story about the meaning of time” (221). How does the book use the genre of a fable to explore the topic of time?
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