11/22/63

Main Ideas

• Time travel: The main character, Jake Epping, gains the ability to travel through time via a portal to the year 1958.
• Changing history: Jake sets out to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, to alter the course of history.
• The butterfly effect: The book explores the consequences of interfering with the past and how even the smallest changes can lead to unpredictable outcomes in the future.
• Moral choice: Jake faces moral dilemmas in deciding which changes to the past are permissible and justified.
• Love and personal sacrifice: During his mission, Jake falls in love and must choose between personal happiness and his duty to history.
• Fate and inevitability: King explores the theme of predestined events and the possibility of altering fate despite the protagonist's efforts.