Second Third of Date & Time Analysis

  Date & Time by Phil Kaye is a book like no other that I have read before. Every book has a beginning, middle and end and always in that order. Phil Kaye does not feel that it needs to be in that order. Reading The End first got me eager to keep reading his story, to find out how he got to where he ended up. Kaye then jumps to The Beginning, sharing a different part of his story. We learn more about Kaye as a character and we are able to start putting more of the pieces together. We have been given The End, The Beginning, and now we just have to read The Middle, to bridge the two together. But will it really bridge them together? Or is it just another part of Kaye’s story? After reading The Beginning, I felt I was reading about a whole different character than I had in The End.

     I learned that at a young age he was being teased for his ethnicity. His “best friend” has turned on him one day, making fun of him, all to gain a spot at the “cool table” in the lunchroom. I think this is part of Kaye’s beginning, as this is where he first realized he was different from the other kids in his class and they noticed. They noticed his different culture and they made fun of him for it. Kaye was also not only made fun of for being Japanese, but he got made fun of for being skinny. We see two different things Kaye grew up with being pointed out in a negative way. This is what started shaping him, it gave him sadness, which sparked his poetry. This connects back to The End, when he talks about people being famous for their sadness. Kaye’s experiences set that up for him. He takes his sadness, caused by being teased, and puts that into poems. 

Kaye tries to fit in, and we see this as he sings songs with his friends at bars. As he is singing the songs though, he realizes that they mean nothing to him and they weren’t written for people like him. This shows his identity crisis, how he feels he is not Japanese, nor American. It shows us the beginning of his journey as a person, the hurdles he will face, and what shaped him to get him to where he is today.


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