Monday, September 16, 2013

Memorable Passage Assignment

I finished the book Heroes about a month ago and i really enjoyed it, firstly because I've seen the TV series and i really liked it, which is why i choose to read this book in the first place, and because i really enjoy science fiction books. This book follows the character Hiro Nakamura, a man trying to figure out his destiny once he finds out that he has the ability to bend time and space, and then he meets a girl named charlie who was killed the day he met her so now he's time traveled into the past to save the one he loves.

"it wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending-but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies, Hire realized. But you can be happy right up to the last page, he reminded himself. He placed a tny orange crane he'd been cradling in his hands up on the shelf, in the very center f the alter. He took a step back, and the tentative smile on his face grew strong and sure, finally reaching his eyes. It was time to go. He wanted to get away before anyone started asking too many questions. he was sure he'd created a new time line, far different from the one he had left. One with which he would be forced to live, forever. The story of Charlie's life may have been shorter than anyone in Midland would have liked, and the end might have come too quickly, but it definitely had a very happy middle. She had been happy-they had been happy together-and that's what made this story a good one."

this paragraph reminds me that you can't change the past but you can still make the most of it, to not dwell on it but remember from the past and learn from it, and most importantly to remember the good times in life over the bad ones. "i can't change the past, no matter how hard i wish."


1 comment:

  1. The last few lines of your quote really struck me:

    "The end might have come too quickly, but it definitely had a very happy middle. She had been happy-they had been happy together-and that's what made this story a good one."

    They reminded me of my husband's grandpa who is very near death. He said he was ready to go see his wife, who he lost over 20 years ago and never got over. My husband has been so sad about his grandpa's end, but trying to hang on to the good stuff he remembers from growing up, or "the middle."

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