TINKERS Part One and Two

Tinkers Part One - I have to admit - I didn't read but maybe the 20 pages this first part.  I at first had a hard time that the author was transitioning between the different characters, George/Howard.  Then he would throw a whole different text into the mix (ex. pages 16-18).  I did like reading about the clocks however.



Tinkers Part Two - The one that resonated with me in this story was the authors explanations of George and his clocks and how he loved them - into how he describe the time prior to his death.  For example he would say (Page 64) "Eighty-four hours before he died, George thought"  To me that tied in with the clocks as all clocks wind down or stop at one point or another and so do our lives.  Sometimes George would only have to tweek and clock a bit and sometimes he had to rebuild them.  Again I thought of life - how sometimes our lives need to be tweeked or rebuilt. 

The other thing that resonated with me as well was George's perception of his father and what may have been actually true.  George may have hated his father b/c he felt that he left them and didn't love him - when in all actuality Howard did love his children and he did care.