Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window Book Report

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Over the past few weeks, I have been enjoying a novel titled The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson and translated to English from Swedish by Rod Bradbury. The book itself has Allan Karlsson as its main character a 99-year-old man who is about to celebrate his 100th birthday when he decides to escape the nursing home. The story then jumps between the present, his run from the nursing home and others as well as flashbacks to his past.
While the book provoked many thoughts surrounding a multitude of themes, one that particularly stuck for a number of reasons was the advancement of technology and just how different things have become in the past 5 – 10 years and how vastly different we live our …show more content…
Instantly, your mobile phone becomes no more than a music player and camera. Then imagine this same solar flare or asteroid had so much electromagnetic radiation that it blew electrical transformers plunging the world into darkness. These same devices would no longer work once their charge ran out. How would you arrange to meet someone, or send letters, could you cope? Would you enjoy the experience? How long do you think you would last? Personally, I think it would be interesting effectively travelling back in time and experiencing life as it was in the past in the present day. A theme of the book was Allen, experiencing things for the first time in a long time as he went on his adventure. In a way, I relate this to my desire to travel and the experiences of new systems and environments that this brings. As an example, I recently travelled to Australia, via Thailand. Luckily I had a 36-hour stopover in Bangkok on the way.During this time. I decided to copy imitate the book. I went up the first Tuk-Tuk driver I saw and held out a 100 Bhat note, asking the driver as Allen did, “How far will this get me?” . To my surprise, it got
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