Forever Alone

2013-23838

STS THY - Group 7

All the Time Reaction Paper

                In one of the episodes of Twilight Zone, entitled Time Enough at Last, we have a main character whose primary interest is reading. If in our time, reading is an encouraged hobby (or probably a way of life), in his time it was not as accepted. Henry Bemis, the name of our main character, was definitely born in the wrong era. He was scolded by his boss for reading during working period. While the boss is not wrong for doing this, Henry's time for reading is only during his work because his wife does not allow him to read at home.

                Just like the kids today who are addicted in reading, Henry sneaked away from his wife by hiding in a place he could be alone. For him, he hid in their secret vault. Much to his dismay, he was definitely left alone when a nuclear bomb killed everyone else while he was safely hidden in their secret vault, reading. This was a depressing thing to happen (mind the understatement) and our main character felt this. Just when he attempted for suicide, a stroke of luck hit him. He found a library of stacks and stacks of books, and at last he finally had time to read all he wants. But alas, Henry had poor eye-sight and when he broke his glasses, it's like all the bad luck in the world ganged up on him.

                It would be interesting to make an adaptation of this story based on the present time. The story would start the same but the character would be reliant on technology and has quite an addiction for social networking. He was so addicted to social networks that he was not able to do what he needed to do and ends up using much of his time. One day, he wished he had more time but little did he know that that wish of him had a consequence-- he would be left alone. His wish came true; he had all the time in the world. He had all the time for social networking. Sadly, there was no one left to interact with him in the social networking world.