The Time Keeper
Alidza Fauzi
X-9
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: PT Gramedia
Pustaka Utama
Year: 2012
Synopsis
The story began long time ago when human
did not recognize the time. There were 3 children who always be a friend, first
the weak but smart one who like to counting things named Dor , second the
strongest named Nim, and third the beautiful one named Alli. When they grow up
Dor married Alli and Nim became a king. Dor really love Alli but he really obsessed
to count a things. He thinks there must be a standard to counting distance
between day to night and night to day.
Dor always busy with his obsession and takes up so much of his time that he
misses some of the most important things in life. One day Nim asks Dor to build
his majestic tower of Babel, Nim believe that he can beat Gods soon after he
can go past the sky, but Dor never interested with such gods thing then he
refuse it. Nim really become angry he expel Dor and his family from his kingdom,
then Dor’s family become poor and live far from civilization. One day Alli
affected by strange disease then lies dying, Dor turns to God to ask for more
time for his wife then he start ran and climb the tower of babel into the
sky.
When Dor in his way to the tower, the
tower went ruin and exploded after Dor reach the top soon it become dark. a
white dressed man come from the front, then Dor realize he was in a cave. Dor
the inventor of the world's first time punished for trying to measure God's
greatest gift. He banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the
voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually,
with his soul nearly broken, Father Time granted his freedom, along with a magical
hourglass and a mission to teaching two earthly people the true meaning of
time.
He returns to world that dominated by the hour
counting, innocently he began and commences a journey with two unlikely
partners:
The first person
is a woman named Sarah her parents divorced when she was little, she is smart
women but not a social women and not a beautiful at all. She wants the time
runs faster because she has her first friend Ethan that she fall in love with.
She needs to get along with her friend and soon say that she in love with him.
With her hard work to get along with Ethan it never worth something, in the end
Ethan humiliated Sarah in Facebook. Sarah felt her heart broke so hard, she
never eat, take bath, and never talk with her mother again, one day at night
she decided to suicide.
The second person
is a man named Victor; he was born in France live with poor family. His parents
died when he was kid, his uncle took him to America to have a new livelihood.
Now he succeeded and rank with the 14th wealthiest man in America.
He wants the times run slower because in his old age and his disease
complications he needs to be immortal, in his top career he always has
everything except immortality, her wife Grace always worry about victor health,
but her life with her husband is not going well because victor always think
about his work . Victor found solution for his problem he will use chronic, chronic
was a fiberglass tube that can make the patient sleep for long time and wake in
future, he believe that a medical solution in future can make he recover from
his complications. In the end, he wastes his time for work and chronic and
never gets along with her wife.
Dor realize
the situation of his time partners, then he ask them to watch their future if
they do such things, they traveled the time with the dor’s sand clock, dor flips
the sand clock and the journey begin. In the future Sarah’s mom miss his
daughter so much she miss the moment when she calmed down sarah who cry and
vent about her life, the people of retirement always ask where sarah because
she never come again to serve the elder, they all miss sarah so much. In the
future when Victor wakes up from his long sleeping, peoples from future were
observing him. His face is faded and wrinkled they put a cable to victor’s
brain and soon they watch Victor memories, that is creepy at all.
After watch
that, Sarah and Victor wakes up in a hospital. They know what the time means
they will spend their life with people who love them, they will not hope the
time be faster or slower again because they will enjoy to live and spend time
with a joy. Dor wake up in his civilization age he will not forget what god
give to him and he will spend the time with his beloved family.
Review
This novel
is inspiring people to use the time for goodness, love, and happiness, the story
is fantastic and epic. This novel tell us to: Do not argue about time that run slower or faster use it with effective and efficient, Dd not uses the time for
the sake of self use it for all people that care and love to us, and don’t
count time for hurrying use it sober and wise. This novel is one of the best
that I have read.
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