Four More Clues

There Will Be Time, I.

(i) "'...his remarkably fast physical and mental development, these past months.'" (p. 14)

(ii) Jack's (apparent) creative imagination:

he describes the smell of drying hides and dung fires in an Indian camp;

his Uncle Jack took him in a "jet," a propeller-less airplane bigger than a house, where they watched a film in Technicolor.

(Robert Anderson thinks that such imagination may be evidence of genius. This overlaps with the theme of "The Saturn Game.")

(iii) Two bullies complained that Jack had called an army to help him.

(iv) When Jack's father, Tom, went to war in 1942, Jack hysterically claimed that he had seen his mother crying because of his father's death. Tom was killed in Italy in '43.

Thus ends Chapter I.