He returns to the city and climbs the tower his old friend has built. As his wife’s condition deteriorates, Dor wishes for more time. Dor and his family move a good distance from the city and build a house where they are visited by a couple who carry some sort of disease, which infects Dor’s wife. The man then tells Dor to leave the city or be forced to help. Dor refuses the friend’s request to help him by making inventions that would be useful in his quest. He is now a wealthy king who intends to build a tower to heaven, destroy the gods, and become the supreme ruler. He marries and he and his wife have three children but his main interest continues to be creating time-keeping devices. The assignment he is given to complete as a way to be restored to his own life, in his own time, is to teach two people-an old man who wants to live forever and a teenage girl who wants her time to end-to appreciate time.ĭor lives in ancient times, before the written word and other academic disciplines, and most significantly, before clocks and calendars. Rather than having this prayer answered the way he hoped for, Dor is locked in the cave and must listen to all who came after him and, due to the effects of his obsession with time, have the same debilitating reliance on time. When his wife is near death he asks God to grant additional time. This interest overshadows pretty much everything else in his life. Ultimately he gets his freedom and, along with it, a mission: he can save himself by teaching two people the real meaning of time.ĭor, the Time Keeper, is obsessed with the concept of time. He is sent to a cave and for generations must listen to the voices of everyone who comes after him telling of situations in which they hope for more time. Time is considered the most important of God’s gifts and the creator of the first clock is punished for attempting to measure it. Albom’s 2012 release, The Time Keeper, is a fable-like tale centering on the first man to ever attempt to keep track of time. Other titles, such as The Five People You Meet in Heaven and For One More Day, have made him one of the leading voices in the genre of inspirational novels. His career as a best-selling author exploded in 1997 with the release of the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom first gained recognition in the literary arena as a freelance sports journalist, then held a full-time position covering sports for the Detroit Free Press.
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