Handling of time - Pg 113-133

Passage of days

‘In the night’ – p121

‘it was almost light enough to see’ – 123

‘The boy wouldn’t wake for hours’ – p124

‘He lay there a long time’ – p129

‘They spent the afternoon’ – p131

‘He wondered if it was even midnight’ – 133

‘By evening’ – p133

Telescoped time

‘...rose and set out.

He came across the barn...’ – p124

‘Afternoon... evening...light draw down over the world’ – in one paragraph p131

‘He was gone longer than he’d meant to be’ – gives an indication of time flying p130

Expanded narrative time

‘It was as long night as he could remember out of a great plenty of such nights...dawn was a long time coming...after a while it was day’ – gives a sense of expanded time p132

Before and flashbacks

‘Lingering odour of cows... and he realized they were extinct’ – p127

‘nothing in his memory anywhere of anything so good’ – p130

Abstract references

‘When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time.  Now is the time.’ – p120

 ‘Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing from their sleep’ – p122

Other

‘He would have ample time later to think about that’ – shows there are no deadlines/rushing p113

‘No time to look’ – contrasts to above quote, shows how we perceive time differs depending on our situation p117

 ‘stopping to rest each fifty counted steps’ – shows a new way of making references to time; whereas we might say every 5 minutes, the man uses steps as an indication of passing time p123