Distant Waves: A novel of the Titanic post#4

Distant Waves

A novel of the Titanic 

Suzanne Weyn 

Historical Fiction 

330/330

      The day Mimi was getting married, Thad proposed to Jane and she said yes, but they didn't want to tell anyone because it was Mimi's big night. During the wedding, Nikola Tesla wanted to show off his newest invention which is supposed to break ice. The moment he was showing his invention was when the ship hit the iceberg and people were getting on life boats. Amelie was missing, so Mimi, Jane, Emma and Thad went looking for her. Tesla instead tells Thad and Jane to follow him because he says that his time machine could save everyone. Tesla's machine partially works and Jane was able to find herself in the water. In the ocean she finds Amelie and Emma where Tesla helped them get on an overturned table. One of the life boats spotted Emma and Amelie and they helped them get on. Blythe was the first one to be saved, Emma died from hypothermia and Amelie had two broken legs. Mimi and Thad were no where to be found. After two years, Mimi's and Thad's bodies were not found, but it was said that they drowned. Jane was 19 at the time and she got a job as a reporter. One day she saw a picture on a newspaper of two people that survived the sinking after years. Jane thought that they looked like Thad and Mimi and she wanted to write a report about it. She goes and finds out that they were Thad and Mimi and they were in the time machine which sent them two years in the future instead of a couple minutes. To them two it seemed like only a few minutes, but it had been years. In the end they still believe that Emma is with them somehow, and that they can contact her and the book ends where Jane and Thad are preparing to continue the rest of their lives together. 

The ending of the book was nothing like I expected. When I first red that Mimi and Thad's bodies weren't found I thought that was it, there is nothing more to the story, but it ended up with an interesting ending of Mimi and Thad traveling through a time machine. It was a very interesting story. I expected it to be just like the actual sinking of the Titanic, but there was a time machine involved which helped Thad and Mimi stay alive. .

"Mimi burst into tears when she sees me. She is dressed in dry clothes nut her wrinkled white gown is draped over her arm. "I don't know whats happened, jane. I'm so confused," she says." (Weyn 317)

In this passage I found  out what the cover of the book meant. On the cover of the book there is a white gown that looks like its under water. In this passage I discovered that the dress was Mimi's wedding gown and that Mimi has been alive since the sinking. This was also a surprising part of the book to read. I thought Mimi and Thad had drowned, but as I red the passage it was strange knowing that they never actually died.