“Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen in the near or distant future.” - Indira Gandhi The book “The Age of Miracles” by Karen Thompson Walker is a coming- of-age story about a girl named Julia who has to live her adolescent years through the beginning of a crisis in which the gravity on earth is changing, causing the days to grow extremely long. Julia goes through many emotions and self-discovery in this period, even finding her first love. The story “The Age of Miracles” teaches the important lesson that nothing lasts forever, therefore you mustn't get too comfortable with your current way of life . In the “Age of Miracles”, The main character, Julia and a different character, Seth, understand that humanity will cease to exist in the possibly near future. They frequently wonder how they will make their mark in order to not be forgotten when hypothetical beings find the remnants of their civilization, and about what will be left. The book says, “We dipped our fingers in wet cement and wrote the truest, simplest things we knew- our names, the date, and these words: ‘we were here.” They wrote those words because they knew evidence of their life on Earth wouldn’t be there forever and there would be proof that humans did, in fact, exist after everything eventually changes.The event of …show more content…
For example, “We’d been friends for years… I’d felt as if she were some second cousin, stranded at a family reunion.” In this moment Julia comes to the harsh realization that their friendship was not as eternal or as strong as she had previously thought. The lesson that nothing lasts forever manifesting itself in the scene of Julia and Hannah’s relationship falling apart is one of the multiple ways that Karen Thompson Walker shows the lesson nothing lasts