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Reaction Paper: All the Time
“Time
Enough at Last”, one of the most famous episode of The Twilight Zone Series, is
all about Henry, a bank teller, who loves his books and other reading materials
too much. Unfortunately for Henry, nobody seems to understand his passion and
everyone that surrounds him prevents him from reading. His love was too much;
it has come to the point where he became anti social. At the end, he ended up
having what he had always wanted – time which became useless after his glasses
broke.
For me,
the message of this episode, aside from “be careful of what you wish for”, came
in a form of question of solitude versus loneliness. A lesson saying we should
know our priorities or the things that are really important could also be
picked up from the story. The episode also gives us the message to not rely too
much on technology.
If I am
going to write an adaptation of the story, I will, first, make sure that the
adaptation will convey all the messages said above though I could add some
lessons in the adaptation. I would make Henry as someone who has no job, more
probably a spoiled out-of-school teen, and someone who love his gadgets. He can
never be separated from his gadgets and he isolates himself from others almost
all of the time. His parents are too busy and have neglected him in terms of
his true needs. When they have time, all they do is giving him what he wants or
letting him do what he wants to do. He’ll then wake up one day and find out
that he no longer needs to rest and eat and all he has are his gadgets.
However, the electricity is gone. He enjoyed using his battery-powered gadgets
until every single one of them has empty batteries. He had all the time yet he
had nothing to do.
I chose
a teen protagonist since teens are usually carefree and most teenagers do not
know what to prioritize and are social network, text, video game, and/or
computer addicts, etc. Also, a teen would most probably choose to be alone with
his gadgets than be with his family. I replaced books with gadgets because
gadgets are everywhere right now. It’s what everyone wants and what everyone
thinks they need, from children and adults, poor and rich. We are relying too
much on them. What would happen to us if one day electricity and the power of
batteries would be gone?
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