Jack
Finney makes time seem to move more slowly by elaborating the part when he was
standing outside on the edge, trying to balance himself. He spends a myriad of
words describing every single detail of which we are usually oblivious.
Furthermore, while describing an action or movement he makes in the story, Jack
Finney also inserts certain internal conflicts that go through his mind. He
lavishly uses literary devices in order to maximize the impression of every
single moment in the story. And then on page 29 he says that it’s only been 8
minutes, which notifies the audience the actual time frame and the feeling of the
slowness of time.
It does
happen in real life. Time usually feels slow when people are bored or waiting
for something desperately. Likewise, times feels fast when people are having a
great time and they feel it’s not enough.
An
example could be my swimming class experience. Once, I was asked to hold my
breath underwater in order to test my lung capacity, and the time was unbelievably slow. My pulses were way faster then the second hand ticktocking. I could hear the coach counting 1 second, 2, 3…,
but to me, I felt like the coach must have got confused with the unit and it
should have been minute, not second.
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