Jennifer Hong
Nov. 21, 2011
In my opinion, Billy has a very interesting life. He is in all sorts of crazy events such as being a prisoner during war, getting shot (pg. 19-20), and even being an optometrist in his older years. I wonder if he ever gets tired of all these crazy stuff. I feel like people in real life today already get crazy over the events throughout there lives. Billy must feel extremely exhausted considering that he has to go through all these crazy events PLUS the order of events are constantly changing (pg 20-21, 24). My question is how he got so used to it. He seems to act very calm and into the time period whenever he gets switched. Another thing that could drive him crazy is that the time period changing is not consistent. Sometimes it lasts for a long time, and sometimes he is only stuck in the time period for minutes. I know I'd go crazy if this happened to me. I also think it is awfully sad that Billy's family died. Many people in real life lose their family just as Billy had. Billy's life seems very sad, depressing, and exhausting because of family death, the war, being prisoner, and not to mention time travel. Another thing I'd like to point out is the idea of aliens at this time that the book was written. I think that around the time this book was written, the aliens and UFO phenomenon just started and people just started to spot weird things like this. This is probably why Kurt wrote this book like this so that readers of that time period can see relate to the book to their real lives as I am right now. What do you think, Jordan?
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