Since the last reflection, I’ve touched on Nightingale, a book set in WW2. However, it is unfit for the essay and did not interest me with the somewhat darker mood and setting. Continuing on The Bone Clocks, I’ve slowly made my way to the last part of the entire book, which begins to reveal the setting of the whole world David Mitchell has created, and the many fantastical elements which seemed to appear. These fantastical elements never made a difference in the perfectly normal lives of the characters, until the end of Crispin Hershey’s perspective, a woman whose author career seems to be unstable, befriending Holly Sykes, the main character since the beginning of the book, as the story unravels around her.

As the plot starts to come together, the book has become more engaging. However, it is still quite difficult in terms of language and diction, which would alter my understanding, but could be helpful in my literary analysis.

This book includes a setting which is somewhat mysterious, and focuses on more characterization compared to literary techniques. Some of themes occurring in the text include the idea of mortality, and humans and their complexity as a whole, the issues occurring within the novel include conflict with oneself, and the outer world. By trying to balance the oneself in the larger context of the world, the main character constantly makes efforts to achieve what she wants, but, not all of them have precedents, and she struggles on her path to her goals.