In his story, Frank Kermode tries to establish a conventional identity of time, by incorporating issues that subject to the needs of humanity, and which must confer to the expectations of the community. In his bid to support his claims, Kermode splits his ideas into six issues that must be addressed to ensure equitability and time management among the supporters.
These six presentations of the finite environments promote an understanding of the, timelessness and freedom of expression among humans.
One of the first talks in Kermode’s assertions is on the importance of an end to any sociological, political or philosophical occurrence. The claims are based on the assumptions that humanity requires strategies that support beginning and the end of any venture. Within these parameters, individuals get to identify institutions operating on biasness, favoritism and racial similarities. In one of his fundamental assertions, Kermode claims that the concept of the living dead and eternity after death is impractical and misplaced.
In the analysis of time, it is expected that time exists together with an order, but according to the author’s argument, time exists together with disorder, and thus makes it more complicated to define what time really is. The significant argument is founded on the ability to differentiate between orders as its already known, and disorder, which is the conventional understandable representation of time.
In the movie industry, the author claims that moviemakers are fond of adjusting the viewers’ expectations and the plot in order to fit within their understanding. By doing so, humans are said to commit more errors, since the attempt to coordinate time cannot be achieved.
Fiction is the second issue being discussed, at which the author claims that humans have fallen into an era of relying heavily on fictions, despite the understanding that fictions are unreal.
Literary fictions have never been associated with general fiction, an error that has been common among different individuals in the world. Despite these findings, the author considers fictions to be the ideal agents of change, since they identify with the ideal world, and conform to the longstanding concepts of hypothesis and proof of reality.
The third issue concentrates on eternity, at which the author identifies the world as having no start and no end. Creation appears to be a concrete activity, but it involved transition from nothing to something, and should therefore be addressed within the context of time and form. Similarly, the presence of angels makes creation more complex.
The concept that angels are pure makes it look like indistinguishable to God, which is a false assumption. Time is therefore significant in addressing changes, even if the changes are fictitiously represented.
Modern apocalypse is another issues addressed by the author, at which he cites the presence of altering predictions to fit individual’s understanding. Just like in literary fictions, prediction of apocalypse has been ever changing, depending on human understanding.
Since it is an era of terror and major transitions, mapping the accurate time within which apocalypse will take place have been difficult and complicated. The presence of continuous transition makes humanity to be distinctively clear of the past, and predictably unrelated to the future.
Literary fiction, reality and solitary confinement are the last tow issues addressed by the author, at which he compares literary contents to the actual reality and that no fiction qualifies to be the supreme fiction. The state of humanity has been influenced by constant needs to fulfill personal desires and wants. Hence, humans have been living in solitude and literal poverty.