Reaction Paper: All the Time

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Reaction Paper: All the Time

“Time Enough at Last” is one of the classic episodes of The Twilight Zone. It is about Henry Bemis, a bank worker who loves to read. His adversaries are people who see his fascination with books as a consummate waste of time. His wife, his boss, his customers all sees him as a loser. They don't allow him to indulge in his favourite pastime. Henry doesn't get a minute to himself with any reading material and resorts to sneakily reading at work whenever he gets the chance. He seems like a delightful man, full of ideas, but in the world of his bank job he is merely inefficient. He uses his lunch break to go down to the bank vault and read a few precious pages. He finally has the opportunity to indulge in his heart's joy after his hometown is devastated by a nuclear blast. But the unexpected happened, he ended up having what he had always wanted – time which became useless because of his weakness, his glasses broke.

If I were to write an update or adaptation of story, I would use the obsession with Facebook. I would make Henry a teenager who is obsessed with the social networking site Facebook. He spends an excessive amount of time on Facebook, allowing the hours to wile away unnoticed, the chores to go uncompleted, and even going so far as he sometimes ignore family and friends in the actual world. His parents would always nag him about it. He then wishes upon a shooting star for them to vanish. It happened and he hurriedly checked his Facebook account. Only to find no Facebook updates since his friends and family do no longer exist.

Henry was never able to enjoy his passion for using Facebook without the people he's been trying so hard to get away from. Instead of books, today’s generation is a slave to social media rankings that’s why I used it for the adaptation.  Youths are more obsessed with themselves than thinking on implications for society.