Journal #5 – How is a clock like the Bubonic Plague?

            The Bubonic Plague is like a clock in the sense that they both put limitations on the time people have to live.  Everything in life is managed by time, and time even puts a limit on the time people have to actually be alive.  The bubonic plague also places a limit on the amount of time a person has to live by infecting them with a terminal disease that often kills the victim within days.  In the middle ages, a cure for the bubonic plague was never found.  Similarly, time has an irreversible effect; it can neither be healed nor stopped.  Both eventually bring resolution to whomever is stricken with them.  They are both things which ultimately prove to be the downfall of humankind.