TIME FOR TIME TRAVEL!

The book The Time Machine, by Robert George Wells, was read by some 5th form students (Nacho Pereyra, Cami Saucedo, Rosario L. Espada) who very kindly suggested that other future readers -Luka Dons, Gastón, Rosario, Lucía, and Sofía Saucedo- who also attended the Book Club Meeting as guests, do borrow the book.

We discussed situations in which we had to convince other people to do something, and how we did it, just like in the story when there's the Time Traveller trying to persuade his friends that time travel is possible, and vice versa when they point out that it is not.

We also watched a deleted scene of the movie released in 2002, and decided if including it in the story would be necessary and appropriate for readers to see or not, and why. And we concluded that it certainly is since it introduces the setting of time, of place, and the main character.

¨HOT, COLD, LIGHT, DARK, EMOTION, INTELLECT. THE UNIVERSE RUNS ON THE COLLISION OF SUCH FORCES¨

It was good to notice that although future and present seem to be other two colliding forces and the future a very tempting one because of technological development, there are some aspects about it that seem to turn it into a less attractive issue:

Nacho: ¨The air will be be polluted and the planet will be destroyed.¨

Gastón: ¨The Earth will be very hot  and oceans will evaporate, and then crops won't grow.¨

Rochi: ¨The hole in the ozone layer will be bigger than now.¨

Lucía: ¨If there is a solution to make the Earth more attractive and less polluted today and nobody does anything, nobody will do anything in the future either.¨

Luka: ¨there will be a lot of rubbish, like today.¨

Sofía: ¨Recyling will take place, but very little, like today.¨