In class on Monday we were all assigned a character to discuss. We never
got to my groups character, Buzzworm, but I really wanted to talk about what we
found. Also, I wanted to hear some other takes on it because we certainly did
not cover everything. Basically, we found the following images/objects repeated
in Buzzworm's chapters; trees, watches, time/history, and radio. The image that
was most prevalent and that I want to discuss is watches/time. Buzzworm has
this unusual obsession with watches and it is said that he has collected over
200. For Buzzworm I don’t think time is a series of seconds, minutes, and
hours. I think time is more important to him than just numbers. I related time
to his continual discussion of history. To Buzzworm time periods are important
especially those of the past. The fact that he had strangers watches or
strangers “outward reflections of time” give Buzzworm a better understanding of
time than most people. I believe this advanced understanding of time
is the reason why in the last paragraph of Buzzworm’s final chapter Yamashita
writes that Buzzworm is solar powered and “could not run out of time” (265).
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