Repent, Harlequin Said the Ticktockman In this story the author used ways to make the reader image everything and in the same time the author kept manipulating with the events to confuse the reader. The story placed in the future, and the place is most likely in the USA because the author mentioned the Indiana city. The beginning of the story was about describing the place as modern buildings, airboats; the place seemed wonderful by picturing it. The author The setting here changed when the author in the first half of the story, started telling the story itself from the middle of it then went back to the begging to the end of the story . This part made the reader question him or herself why the author used this method? Is it to destruct the mind? Or prove a main point later in the story by giving …show more content…
The author made the reader question and wonders about the message of the story. Specially when the Ticktockman wasted some time and kind of died in the story after that. The reader here could ask questions about the message that the author wants to deliver. Is it about wasting time? Or it has something to do with the past? . And some other questions like is the place was described in the story is actually USA or not? Why Harlequin did upset the powerful Ticktockman? Why Ticktoockman has a mask on his face ? Is it to make people fear him? Why did the author start the story from the middle but not from the beginning? Is the author trying to solve a current problem that is happening in the real world? . The ideas that the author trying to plant in our heads can be positive and it also can be negative, it depends in the way the reader read the