You’ve got to understand, time is determined by the objects around it. So if there were no mass, there would be no time or space either." (Rosengaard 29).
The notion of time here is emphasized as a construct dependent on a mass that varies throughout space producing a perception of a linear sequence, time. This definition allows the author to play with the concept of time throughout the book. Thus, the definition can is applicable to situations in the story where there is not enough or too much mass surrounding the character, allowing them to perceive time as either nonexistent or …show more content…
Time travel highlights both the positive and negative experiences of Ana, manipulating the way the reader observes time. When Ana and her fiancé, Isak, are in Spain and they cross time zones into Portugal and gain an hour. The moment is characterized as positive by the characters experience of a happy and romantic moment of crossing the bridge. Also, the experience of literal time travel connects Ana with a feeling of eternality. Ana and Isak cross a river described as an eternal being that has always and will always be streaming through time, “as it had done for thousands of years and would do long after all borders and time zones had been forgotten.” (Rosengaard 255). By displaying nature as outside of time, it presents itself as an object holding several times at once and therefore shows the deconstruction of time (Dinshaw 56). So, it is though time can resurrect past into present on a small scale – the hour Ana gains – and on a large scale, Ana’s past becoming the intern’s present (Dinshaw