The
time of my life
The time of my
life is the eight novel of the Irish author Cecelia Ahern
and it was published on 13th October, 2011.
“Each page and
part of book is full of deep sense and sophisticated mind, it carries away in the
story. Not everyone who holds a pen is a writer, only who can open the vital
reality to world literature can be real writer.”[1]
It is not easy to write someone’s life, to feel it;
it is difficult to describe and to make readers feel it, but Ahern succeeded.
In this novel, Ahern is proposing us an interesting
game of imagination: how it would be if in difficult moments of our lives we
could state a meeting with our personal life as if we make any other
appointment with a friend or a doctor. Lucy Silchester has this chance but she
doesn’t like at all. She presents Lucy’s problem that is also the problem that
nowadays many people are confronting with. It happens that even a little lie
can make a mess of our lives, a little and ‘inoffensive’ lie that brings many
other lies and numerous unexpected events. Through the character of Lucy S,
Ahern draws readers’ attention regarding the habit of lying that could bring
almost a disaster in our lives. This is the didactic message that the author
tries to make it clear and through which she gives an indirect advice as the
salvation of this problem. “She is a
master of description and reasoning of young couples’, teenagers and young
people’s problems of the last century.”[2]
Cecelia Ahern easily describes situations in which readers find themselves,
shows the world from another perspective and shows us how we can deal with
different situations. Somehow, she tries to solve problems of the young
generation in a modern manner using an easy language and a sophisticated mind. Her
novels are a new vision and understanding of everything that encounter us.
Having a special, different style of writing,
Ahern’s readers could get bored at the beginning of the book, but she has some
keys that she uses in all her novels to capture readers’ attention after few
pages and they amalgamate and identify with the character who brings us
anywhere with her. The author declared herself: “I choose to begin my novels with very vulnerable characters so that they
will search within themselves for more answers.” Her motivation are the
characters, she falls in love with them and can’t take them out of her mind
until their story is not told. Despite the similar formula each of her works
presents a different story, a special and different one. [3]
Cecelia Ahern came up with the idea of the character
of Life as she thought that life could be a person. She turned the life in a
person and decided to explore the relationship between a person and his own
life as we often don’t spend time on ourselves. She chose the character of Lucy
because it was important to be an everyday character as the readers could
easily identify with it. Readers can easily identify with Lucy as she is an
ordinary character which has a couple of problems and like everyone else, she
lies.[4]
[1]The creativity of Cecelia Ahern
in the world literature, http://www.group-global.org/en/publication/view/7342, 23.03.2014
[2] The creativity of Cecelia Ahern
in the world literature, http://www.group-global.org/en/publication/view/7342, 23.03.2014
[4]
Interviu
Cecelia Ahern: Atunci când îmi voi pierde dragostea pentru scris mă voi
opri, http://www.agerpres.ro/cultura/2013/10/04/interviu-cecelia-ahern-atunci-cand-imi-voi-pierde-dragostea-pentru-scris-ma-voi-opri-14-14-19, 23.03.2014
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