Comparison Of Jack Finney's Time And Again

If you could travel to any place at any time in history, where would you go? The novel Time and Again, by Jack Finney, tells a classic story of Simon (called Si) Morley and his time traveling adventures. Published in 1970 by Simon & Schuster, the book creatively reveals time traveling as not complex technology, but instead as an event that can be reached through a hypnotic state. As anything, mixed reviews are to be expected, however, this book appears to cause more mixed feelings than usual. Goodreads rates Time and Again an outstanding four out of five stars. Contradictory, reviewer Jennie gives the book a D grade. Many readers may agree with reviewer Eli Stevens when he says, “This book was strange. There were times when I couldn't
Prien knows every detail about Si’s life and asks him to drop everything and join the project. However, he could not tell Si what the project was about. After days of thinking, Si decides to take a leap of faith and join the secret project based surely off of Prien’s enthusiasm and the urge to do more. After extensive testing, including a test attempting to make Si go crazy, Si is accepted as the perfect candidate. Danziger explains everything Si would have to know about the project. Si makes a bold move by countering Danziger’s plan with a time and place of his own to time travel to- New York City in January 1882. Si yearned to solve the mystery that Kate had told him about. She told him about a letter mentioning the end of the world, and about how whoever received the letter killed themselves and their spouse attempted to burn the letter. The only question is who did the letter come from. Si goes on a mission in the past to try and figure it out. After hard work and preparation, Si is able to self-hypnotize himself into the past. He observes the sending of the letter but is not able to remain in the hypnotic state to do anything more. Si, again, returns to 1882 and, this time, follows the man back to his apartment. The man is Jake Pickering. After watching Pickering for a while, Si quickly understood that Pickering was not a good man, in that he was blackmailing his own friend. Si also watched Pickering long enough to fall for Pickering’s fiancee, Julia Charbonneau. Si goes out of cover and talks to Julia and tries to help her understand who Pickering truly is. They decide to spy on Pickering to attempt to find a flaw, but while doing so, a huge fire is set off as Carmody (the friend Pickering is blackmailing) and Pickering fight over money and secret files. Si and Julia burst out of hiding and soon get accused of starting the