Life In A Nutshell

In book one, the story begins at a control center for an organization called CERN. At this scene, the audience is introduced to particle physicist and Canadian researcher- Lloyd Simcoe, his fiancé- Michiko Komura, and his research partner- Theo Procopides. They, along with numerous other unnamed scientists, were working on an experiment of some sort using a device called the ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, detector to produce a particle named Higgs Boson. Although it is not clear what exactly the experiment is meant to accomplish, it seems to go terribly wrong. Suddenly, Lloyd was transported some twenty or so years into the future. He was lying in bed with a woman, ripe in old age. He had no control over his own body and could not …show more content…
The book made me almost wish to see a glimpse into my future twenty-one years from now to see where I may be in my life. However, I would be somewat scared that I would see failure and lose all hope of pursuing my dreams, like Theo's brother Dimitrios. This book brings these concepts to the forefront of the readers' minds and forces them to answer the question of whether or not they believe there is free will or a fixed future. I feel as though many people have opposing views on this concept. We would like to believe we have free will because we prefer to be in control of our own lives. However, that may not very well be the case. Although it may be undesirable, we do seem to completely lose control of our lives at times. As we interviewed Sawyer, he expressed that his view on this debate is positively in favor of free will and it is evident that the entire book points toward the idea of free will to choose what we make our futures. As Theo defies his foreseen future, the audience sees that there is hope for the future always. The novel sends an upbeat and positive mesage about one's possible future and I really enjoyed that. All too often, books assigned for classes are boring, depressing, and end in tragedy or heartbreak. FlashForward was a book I would enjoy reading for pleasure in my free time and really captivated my thoughts on life and the