“I imagined I wanted a teacher—needed a teacher. To show me how one goes about doing something that might be called … saving the world.” (4)
As soon as the novel begins, we are confronted with the theme of saving the world. The way the narrator acts when he sees the ad explains his ambition to save the world. He claims that the cultural evolution of the 1960s contributed to his aspiration. As time went on, the narrator slowly lost hope for this desire. “Something died inside of me—something that I’d always sort of liked and admired.” (6) When the narrator sees the ad for a teacher seeking a pupil to “save the world,” he latches back on to his dreams.
Everyone once in their lifetime has had a dream of becoming a superhero and saving
As soon as the novel begins, we are confronted with the theme of saving the world. The way the narrator acts when he sees the ad explains his ambition to save the world. He claims that the cultural evolution of the 1960s contributed to his aspiration. As time went on, the narrator slowly lost hope for this desire. “Something died inside of me—something that I’d always sort of liked and admired.” (6) When the narrator sees the ad for a teacher seeking a pupil to “save the world,” he latches back on to his dreams.
Everyone once in their lifetime has had a dream of becoming a superhero and saving