Analysis of the Text “the Time-Sweepers” by Ursula Wills-Jones

Analysis of the text The Time-Sweepers By Ursula Wills-Jones The following short story is about while-sweepers and lost time. They are race who sweep up all the time that is lost or wasted. They are invisible, but sometimes they can be noticed. They carry a broom, a imbibe and a big dustpun. The time-sweepers are hard-working. They work every day and are never sick. The lost and wasted time is packed and recycled.But not every instance of time can be recycled, the most poisoned time is buried in a tank underneath a disused army base. The rest of the time can be sold to the people who need it or distributed to good causes or emergency situations. The full text is built on the conflict betwixt people who waste time and people who sweep up all the time that is lost and wasted. Ursula Wills-Jones idealizes the time-sweepers and ridicules people.The author uses the stylistic device of climax in severalise to describe different types of time wasting the man who has waited so long to propose to his girlfriend the woman who has spent thirty-five loathed years in an land agents, dreaming of opening a florists. The author refers to the stylistic device of hyperbole in order to laugh at the people who waste time the time-sweeper impart pass straight by the desk of the woman who is reading a holiday catalogue under the desk, poring over photos of tropical beaches.They will pass by the succeeding(a) desk, where a man is enjoyably wondering what his mother-in-law looks like naked, and stop by the desk of the young man who is counting every minute, and loathing the hours. The author creates a incessant presence of time sweepers. The reader feels that they are everywhere in the railway station, in the office, at your desk. The time-sweepers are hard-working they dont like to rest because there is so mush wasted time after holidays it takes them around three weeks to resume normal service