Time keeper- hope not for eternal

     This is a story about the time and life. The general book is led by three small stories. In this Mitch Alboms newest fiction book, the first founder of clock in the ancient time was kept in a cave as a sort of penalty. He will have no more death and sees everyone but himself passing away. Such a torture it is for him to see his beloved wife dying for giving help to others. At first, he is just as the enlightened one who has the tempt to measure time and know the cycle of every thing. He counts with bowls and sticks. He finds out that moon will be off when the water in his bowl has leek out and he knows when the moon will not be round. The talent that nobody has at that time of the world gives him the unique ability to measure every kinds of time. "I have taken every thing under control" he thinks. Yet, he has the talent for time but not for healing. His wife is infected by a horrible disease, which takes her life away in weeks. The heart of Ali, the time inventor and later the keeper, is tore apart. Remembering that his friend has built a tower stretch into the sky, he rush on the tower to reclaim his wife back. The tower starts to fire up as he runs up. However, he is right captured by the father of time as he intends to run to the heaven and reclaim the life of his wife back.
     Since then, he is locked in a cave away from human and, who knows, may be away from earth even for thousand of years. During of this time, he can only hear the pray from human world asking for time. It has been a long time since Ali's leave, and human has been developing since the ancient time. Yet, the understanding of time has never changed. Time are begged to be given out for their rushing ages. Thousands, Millions and billions. Ali is so sick of these prays- asks. To keep his wife in his mind, he uses symbols to record all his memory. Thousands of years, he kills them by carving and listening until the father time comes to ask him to help two people-two resemble all but also are unique. The asks of two represent all human's needs.