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Entertainment Pursuit of Child in Time By Thomson Newt Service To have a child irrevocably from you is the dread of any parent This is the nightmare that engulfs Stephen Lewis when his three year old daughter Kate disappears In a supermarket Ian McEwen author of The Child In Time Letter and Ltd pages INK says the novel set in Britain was inspired by an actual event Around this central theme he has developed an absorb ing story about a couples adjust merit to the loss and a critique of the inadequacies of government He also speculates on the meaning of childhood and time The book Is a serious one but richly leavened with humor McEwen has a strong satirical thrust he game shows on television as a democrat pornography The loss instead of uniting the parents In their Borrow drives them apart each isolated in his or her own grief The only thing that gives structure to Stephen day is that as a successful writer of children books he sits on the subcommittee of the Official Commission on Oil Id Care set up by the British prime minister to examine idcare tice There subtly hilarious se quences in wnich earnest advocates of various causes appear before the committee a proponent or a phonetic alphabet another who believes children should not leam to read or write until ore 10 or a third opposed to illustrations in children a books CONTRADICTORY No wonder Stephen decides that child care in a field In which specula lion can be dressed up as fact where for three centuries mothers have been subjected to contradictory ad vice provided mainly by men A crowning Irony occurs when the committee finally submits its report and the cynical practices of a hypocritical government arc reveal Theories about time are presented by a character named Thelma a lee turer In physics who wrote a thesis Be a park attendant Are you looking for something to do with your evenings one or two nights a week or occasionally on weekends Do you being around adults and children especially u Challenge is up The Town of Hills has challenged the Town of in the Crownllfe Challenge On Wednesday May every resident of Hills should par In a physical activity like walking Jogging swimming etc for 15 continuous minutes Thanks to a generous donaiion from Wm Co Ltd the Recreation and Parks Department will again this year be able lo register Fitness Challenge activity On Wednesday May after ex for minutes call the Challenge Hotllni to be included in the final A blooming good time Staff members of the Wildlife Centre welcome visitors to join them in exploring nature awakening on May land Maya The centre is conducting hikes which will consist of a slide show dealing with followed by a guided hike The Mountsberg Wildlife Centre is situated five kilometres west of Campbellvllte on Mil borough Line off of Campbellvillc Road south of For further Information on any of the special events and contact ihe mi Conservation Authority at weekdays and on weekends Why not consider working with the Recreation and Parks Department as a Park Attendant We are seeking mature respon adults lo occasionally work evenings and weekends at the Georgetown Fairgrounds or at Prospect Park Acton May to September Responsibilities In dude keeping the parks clean helping us keep records on sports field use and acting as a good will liaison between the field users and our department This is an ex tremely important service that we offer our community groups and if you are interested In becoming in volved we would encourage you to contact our office at James Street Georgetown between am and 4 p Monday to dayorcallB77 on nature of time She is married to Charles a successful man in the public eye who abandons a promis ing career to obsessively pursue the childhood he feels he never had with disastrous results Time Is not on ab solute It goes beyond the linear se quential time we accept as pan of our everyday living In a moving episode Stephen sees something out of lime a scene that took place bet ween his parents In a pub before he was bom now relived and repeated In his mind The lost child is also related to time fixed by it into a threeyearold self capable of ImaRinary growth on in mind of her father Two years after Kate disap pearance Stephen Is convinced he sees her In a schoolyard skipping rope with a group of girls He seeks out the headmaster In order to claim her as his own but is forced to reatlie that he has made a mistake she only looks like what he thinks Kate might look like at her age Children change you know says the headmaster On top of that you must be wanting it to be her SUSPENSE McEwen deftly manipulates the suspense in the novel It has elements of the detective story not in the sense of reading on to find out whodunit but to see how the pieces of the puzzle he has finally fit together They do fall into place at the end in an unexpected and exciting way when Stephen and his wife Julie face their grief This is the first Canadian publics lion of The Child in Time which ap peared In the United States and the United Kingdom In the fall of 1987 The story Is told throughout from Stephen point of view narrating his experience Julie correspon ding emotional voyage is telescoped Into the lost few pages One could wish that her side had been developed more completely but it may have detracted from the urgency of the ending Jeannette leaches Studies and Canadian literature ml Glendon College CENTRE Georgetown Isnt aGREA TDEAlI on a new 1988 car worth a 15ninute drive to Milton ODD OFF ALL TRUCKS DELUXE STOCK NISSAN MICRA BU1ITP0RTHEHUMANRACE NORTH END NISSAN in dressing Kevin Intently paints a children on hand Saturday afternoon bumble bee on window at the help paint the windows and Georgetown Children Library brightentheltbraryforiprlng Ketln was one of a number of Below is the professional help and advice youre looking for in your wedding plans These advertisers will provide the experience and expertise to help you with a successful wedding day -4oy52e- OFF Now Is The Time 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