Gigi was a fun person that liked to invent stories and make people happy with them.
Momo met a lot of friend and the closest to her were Gigi and Beppo. She was the middleman for people who were arguing. Even the people who were a bit uneducated would have bright ideas after talking to her. Momo knew how to listen to others and after talking to her, people would have a clear look at their situations. With time the theatre became an it-place where everyone came to spend some time with the unusual girl. They suggested her to move in with one of them but in the end they decided it would be best for Momo to stay in the theatre so everyone could spend some time with her. On one occasion she said she ran away from a place like that and that she had no desire of going back there. They didn't want to tell the police about her so she wouldn't finish in foster care. The citizens had built her a sleeping space and brought her groceries every day. Place: it could be concluded it's a town in Italy, but it isn't specified anywhereĪ semicircular theatre was placed between ruins in a town and it was thought to be the remains of an amphitheatre from the past. 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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