![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (32)” The criticism of materializing time, using it as a commodity leads almost whole novel Momo. Time is life itself and life resides in human heart. “Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash according to how we spend it. However the more people saved time the less they had (Ende, 41). The Grey Gentlemen ask their clients to save time “by speeding up work, cutting off from social time and eliminating all joy from their life (Goodhew and Loy, 99). The Grey Gentlemen promise people to give more time in the future but with one condition which is to save time as much as they can (Goodhew and Loy, 99). Those Gentlemen continue to exist by smoking rolled cigar made of other people’s hour-lilies (Goodhew and Loy, 98). The plot mainly adopts Momo’s adventures of gaining the stolen time back from the time-thieves, who are called “The Grey Gentlemen”. Momo is a homeless girl, who runs away from orphanage to an uncertain city where Momo takes place. Materialization of time and remarks of consumerism in Michael Ende’s Momo ![]()
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