The Time Keeper Summary:
Six thousand years ago, there were no measurements of time. 'Time' did not exist in the way it does today. When Dor was a child, he was interested in the idea of measuring moments and that interest only grew when he got older. But when Dor's beloved wife, Alli, was about to die from a strange disease, he came to rue the very thing he sought to control. He wanted to stop time and keep Alli alive forever. He climbed the tower to the gods to try and make them stop time. This tower would come to be known as the Tower of Babel.
God knew the consequences of time. He knew that once humans realized that they could measure time, there would be no end for the pain that time would cause. For Dor's punishment, he must spend eternity in a cave, listening to the voices of people who want more time, or less time, or for time to stop.
Six thousand years pass without Dor aging a day. He is released from his imprisonment, and, in order to redeem himself, must help two people who don't understand the meaning of time: Sarah Lemon and Victor Delamonte.
Sarah is a self-conscious teenage girl who wants time to speed up as she waits for a big date with what she thinks is the perfect boy. However, her ideas about love go terribly amiss when the boy cancels on her multiple times and eventually humiliates her in front of all his friends. Sarah, who is already emotionally tried due to her parents' divorce, cannot go on with life and plans to commit suicide.
Victor is the fourteenth-richest man in the world. He also is the unfortunate victim of a tumor and kidney failure. He knows the only thing that can mar his good fortune is his health, and he spares no effort trying to find a cure. However, he is pronounced to die in a short time. Victor needs time to slow down. He tries to achieve immortality by turning to cryonics, or the freezing of a person for later reanimation, to save himself and his fortune.
By watching each of their lives, Dor tries to understand how he is supposed to help them. He doesn't know what to do, but the opportunity presents itself in due time. They all come to understand what time truly is.
God knew the consequences of time. He knew that once humans realized that they could measure time, there would be no end for the pain that time would cause. For Dor's punishment, he must spend eternity in a cave, listening to the voices of people who want more time, or less time, or for time to stop.
Six thousand years pass without Dor aging a day. He is released from his imprisonment, and, in order to redeem himself, must help two people who don't understand the meaning of time: Sarah Lemon and Victor Delamonte.
Sarah is a self-conscious teenage girl who wants time to speed up as she waits for a big date with what she thinks is the perfect boy. However, her ideas about love go terribly amiss when the boy cancels on her multiple times and eventually humiliates her in front of all his friends. Sarah, who is already emotionally tried due to her parents' divorce, cannot go on with life and plans to commit suicide.
Victor is the fourteenth-richest man in the world. He also is the unfortunate victim of a tumor and kidney failure. He knows the only thing that can mar his good fortune is his health, and he spares no effort trying to find a cure. However, he is pronounced to die in a short time. Victor needs time to slow down. He tries to achieve immortality by turning to cryonics, or the freezing of a person for later reanimation, to save himself and his fortune.
By watching each of their lives, Dor tries to understand how he is supposed to help them. He doesn't know what to do, but the opportunity presents itself in due time. They all come to understand what time truly is.