In this next section of the book, Sam isn;t seeing much of Alicia as last time. This shows that he and her are getting more and more distant from one another. After going to a new city while having his mother worried sick, Sam finds a job, to be able to support the fact that he will be a father. Sam leaves the fact that he has a pregnant girlfriend ( more like ex-girlfriend), in a way running away, and ended up getting a job where he didn't really expect to have one in. Although, he is getting paid and staying in a hotel, Sam is doing pretty well, but has been away from home for a few months already. Other than being at work, Sam was starting to have some more man versus self conflict about Alicia being pregnant, and starts to see things in three different time frames: the past, present, and future. Then all of a sudden, when Sam was starting to feel high and mighty with his life, he gets a package from his mother, but instead of a regular messanger, it was Alicia, who appears once again in his life to reveal their future from the pregnancy test. The section ends with the plans that Sam and Alicia are going to make in the future, for them, their family, and their baby, since they're going to keep it.
"I was living in three different time zones at once" (Hornby, 140)
After reading this quote, it reminded me of something scifi. At first, it reminedd me of movies like The Matrix, or Star Wars, because he had the ability to live in three different time zones. Sam would immediately know the past, live in the present, and look into the future. This also reminded me of more holiday stories such as A Christmas Carol, with how Scrooge has to go into the past, present, and future, to be able to change his perspective towards Christmas.
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