“A Wasted Hour” is a short story written by Jeffrey Archer. Jeffrey Archer is born on 15 April 1940. He is an English novelist and former politician. Before he becomes an author, he was a member of Parliament, it was in 1969-1974. After the political period, he began writing books. He has sold around 330 million copies worldwide. The title of the short story “A Wasted Hour” doesn’t say that much about the plot. But the title got a meaning. The title is both literal and symbolic. The literal sense refers to Kelley’s trip from Salinas to Palo Alto.
Plot
The story takes place in the old days because we hear about Kelley talks about President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was the 32nd president, and that was in the period 1933-1945. This story tells a lot of themes like willingness, and in the story, we meet a lot of new people and expanding the horizons of life.
This story is a third-person narrator. The third-person narrator has limited knowledge. In the story, we meet Kelley Ragland, who goes at Stanford College. Every day she goes to school rather than taking a bus or train. It’s very expensive for Kelley to take the bus or train. And his father will not give her money to take the bus or train, because he doesn’t have enough money. She mentions, among other things. Even, her parents were already given enough to make sure she could go to college.
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