Morel, genius or mad scientist? To him he created a miracle for him and his friends, a way for them all to live forever with each other. But is that a blessing or a curse? The question of living forever is one that is constantly talked about. To live forever means to watch everyone you love and everyone you have ever loved die as you continue to live. But with Morels invention you relive each moment as if it was your first. For one week he recorded all of their actions, this was to be a week in paradise for all of them, one which they will continue to repeat forever. But was it really a week of paradise? For Faustine she is destined to continue to watch the same sunset not really showing any true emotion for the event, instead seeming to daydream, possibly wondering how her life got that way.
Casares seems to do nothing with his time, other than trying to find food in order to survive, except observe the lives of Faustine and the others. He watches them tediously repeat the same trite tasks over and over again. Yet in the end, he wants nothing more then to join them in their fate, in order to spend eternity with Faustine. Faustine was his reason to continue to survive on the island, and his reason to record his life so he can live with her in this fake reality. This brings up the idea of love at first sight. Can you really love someone that you have never really talked to, who you have only observed in almost a stalking-like manner? When he records himself he says that to the observer it would seem as if he was there when the others were and that to the observer it would seem as if him and Faustine were in love. Why would anyone put themselves through this continual state of illusion? Is it better to live forever in a lie but with the object of your infatuation or to go on with your life with the possibility of finding a new infatuation?
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