The plot is set in a country in the south and, since it is a fairytale, the time is unspecified. Sceneries never saw before occurred in the city the children played and the drivers looked at them with a smile on their face. In the end, the author gives us a dream about a better future and breaks the darkness which can be noticed when Momo freed the time that was taken away from people. According to Ende, the modern world is a dark place in which emotions barely exist.
The human in modern society is shown as a victim to his craving for success because of which he becomes estranged to feelings such as love. By reading it can be perceived that the more we save time, the less time we have. It is assumed that the passenger could be Master Hora.Įnde wanted to show human's faith in the modern society where time instead of money became the measurement for everything valuable. In the end there is an epilogue in which Michael Ende admits to have written the whole fairytale based on the memory of what a passenger in a train told him. The reader is firstly introduced to the verses of an Irish children song: "Twinkle, twinkle little star".
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