Question 3.

The significance of telling the story out of order is to show that there is no such thing as time and that time doesn’t matter. There is no beginning, middle, or end to the story and KV wants people to understand his own idea of time. He thinks of time as a human creation that men took and twisted into a creation that people now live by everyday but is it real or is it just a figment of our imagination? To him time was almost as if someone was playing with clocks and they would make it twitch which lead to a passing of a year but KV believes it because he has to. But he himself believes that the past, present, and future are all now because all the events in your life are raveled together in the moment now and the future is the choices you make now therefore there is no such thing as time. All moments, memories, thoughts, and events are stuck in amber just as KV said in his book. These moments stay with us and are all bound around you as a person. The world really has no way of explaining time and the only reason we have it is because it’s how people live their lives everyday. They go to school at a certain times or plan to go to sleep at a certain times but what if we didn’t think about time? It is a good question but there aren’t really answers to this. This relates to the phrase “So it goes” because when KV uses “So it goes” it is always used after a death. In his book the Tralmafadorian’s don’t believe in the thought of death. They think of it as another moment of “now” because to them the person is and always will be alive for the rest of forever. Death is just another one of the many moments in a person’s life.