Time Travel, Veils and Proof

This book is getting so interesting, Miranda invited Annemarie to her house and in their way, the Laughing Man called Annemarie "angel". "You" sends a second note to Miranda, she finds it in a bag of roles at Jimmy's, "you" asks her to write a true story in the letter and it says she can't show the letter to anyone. Miranda and Colin find out that Jimmy is keeping $2 bills in hid Fred Flintstone bank. Miranda's mother says that everyone has a "veil" that keeps us from seeing the big things in life and just makes us see the small things and we have to lift a corner of it to see the real world. Miranda starts wondering if you are born with a "veil" and if there are people who always see the big things, like "you". Miranda is starting to feel weird but good around Colin since their heads touched one day, she thinks that maybe Annemarie is feeling that too. Julia starts questioning Annemarie about her job at Jimmy's, she said she doesn't need the money and that Annemarie shouldn't be eating those sandwiches or drinking sodas.  Julia goes to Jimmy's and tells everyone that their cheese isn't real cheese, Jimmy kicks her out of his shop. Sal's mom goes to Miranda's apartment with some potato chips and says that she misses Miranda. Richard's shoes are gone. After thanksgiving everyone is in the lunchroom because the a naked man is running around Brooklyn. While Miranda and Annemarie are talking, Annemarie just goes into space, Julia comes, tells Miranda to ignore what's happening and keeps talking until Annemarie is back in the conversation again, then she left. Julia calls Miranda an idiot, and she tells her that Annemarie was having a seizure because she has epilepsy, that's why she can't eat sandwiches or drink sodas. Miranda sees Sal and Marcus on her way home, Sal avoids Marcus, who ignored both of them. Annemarie tells Miranda that someone left her a rose, she refuses to think it was Colin. Miranda finds the third note in her coat and it had "proof": "3 p.m. today: Colin's knapsack. Christmas Day: Tesser well. April 27th: Studio TV-15. Marcus waves at Miranda instead of ignoring her and walks with her. They talk about time travel again and Julia gets in the conversation. The Laughing Man runs away from Marcus. One of Jimmy's rolls is missing and Miranda later finds the first proof, the missing roll at Colin's knapsack. Miranda and her mom discuss about how Miranda gave a sandwich to the Laughing Man. Richard wants to marry Miranda's mom. Jimmy thinks that Colin, Annemarie and Miranda stole his bank and he won't let them return to work so they write a letter explaining that they didn't stole it.

"Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible" (Stead 71)

This quote explains what the veil is. I think that is pretty much like being blind from the heart. We don't realize so much that's going on in the world because our veil won't let us see it. We have to learn how to lift our veil to see everything clearly and not muffled. That way, when we look at the whole picture, we will understand things that we didn't get before. It is really important that you can find out how to do this yourself so you can be independent and so you can do good in life. Also you need to know when to lift it, when is it extremely necessary to lift it and what are the moments that would be better off with the veil on, so you can't see what's happening. All of this will help us be successful in life and it will help us find clarity and truth.

" 'Look. It's like every moment in time is a diamond sitting on this ring. Pretend the ring is really big, with diamonds all around, and each diamond is one moment. Got it?' " (Stead 102)

This is Julia explaining how time works. She says that each diamond chip in her ring is a moment and all of the moments are happening at the same time, so there is no past or present or future. If time travel does exist, and you will travel in time when you are older, you are technically already doing it, just that you don't know it yet because that hasn't happened to you yet. So, you can arrive before you left because if you leave 5 minutes after you say you'll leave and you return to the "present" 5 minutes after you said you'll leave, you would have already arrived even though the you that you feel, the one that was saying you'll leave, hasn't left yet. It is all complicated and hard to understand but if time doesn't really exist, then we should try to appreciate what we think is time. If time travel is possible, probably you are traveling through time right now, in the "future" so that's why you don't know it yet. This discussion has been showed all through the book, so I guess this is important in the story, Miranda doesn't get how time works, although Marcus and Julia have tried to explain it to her. i think that she isn't lifting her veil, or else, she would have understood already.

So many things happen at once! It is just so hard to stop reading this book. It keeps you thinking, what will happen next? what does this mean? why did she do this? So you have to keep reading in order to answer all of your questions. It is full of surprises, there are things that you would have never expected, like the fact that Annemarie has epilepsy! Since when? I think that Miranda won't understand time until the very end, because she is not getting any further in her understanding. I think that Colin has feelings for either Annemarie or Miranda, I just can't figure that out yet, maybe I already did but I don't know it. I hope that Julia and Annemarie solve their problems because I think that Julia needs attention and I think she is insecure and that's why she is "mean". Maybe if she has a friend she can count with, she would be nicer. I really, really hope that Jimmy sees that the kids didn't stole his bank and that he lets them go back to work, they really had fun in that shop. I think that after Miranda's mom thinks this through, she will accept Richard's proposal and marry him, that would make them both happy. I want to find out what happened with Richard's shoe, its weird that someone breaks into your house and just takes one shoe, not even a pair, just one. I am dying to know who "you" is. Now that there has been more talks about time travel, I'm starting to think that this "you" is a time traveler, I don't know, I just suppose. I am enjoying this book a lot because even though that the "main" topic is time travel and "you" and all that stuff, it also talks about friendship and the importance it has in life. I want to end this book so bad! There are so many mysteries I want to find the answer to. Guess I'll just have to keep reading...

Some People say $2 bills bring luck... Maybe this one will give me luck in answering all of my questions. I don't know... I'm just saying.