This paper
examines three books, "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "The Things They Carried", by Tim O' Brien, and "The
Crucible", by Arthur Miller. It looks at how, in all three stories, time is used in order to recall
events and how the writers use the events from the past in such a way that their influence is obvious in the present. It also
examines how land and travel are also significant, due to the fact that there are frequent changes seen between certain parts of novels, and these are used almost in the same way as time.