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In my recent panel presentation, I choose the article "Spastic Time" by Adam Barrows. I want to elaborate on some points I didn't go into dept or didn't touch on in class. The article, in short, revolves around the fact that we shouldn't be trying to diagnose Billy's mental condition. When we try to diagnose Billy, we input our own and society's own preconception of what is normal in the diagnosis. Here lies the problem: Our preconception of what is healthy or normal is very different from someone else's. But, is Billy really mentally ill? Is any of the Trafedorians real? We find ourselves asking this question when we learn more and more about Trafedorians' idealogy about time and death. Adam makes a point that we shouldn't be asking this question in the first place. He said, " The point is not to prove whether Billy is sane or lying. But rather, the point is that Vonnegut wants us to be suspicious of our overwhelming need to ask ...

Mumbo jumbo has been very interesting and has a lot of aspects that are similar to other books yet a lot of traits that draw my attention. This book, being a detective book, has all the suspense and traits that we are used to seeing in other books. Yet, the most interesting part to me is that even though we the readers eventually find out who is guilty, there is still enough going on that I still super drawn to the book. Unlike other stories, it was never one-sided and always a battle between two people that is everlasting. This also brings up the point if what we are reading is actually something that happened or entirely myth. Did something like this actually happen in the world of mumbo jumbo? To me, I believe it was a myth. We are so used to reading and hearing these kinds of stories from our family and on assigned these books at school. There is always one main character who goes through some stuff and always comes on top. This story is in many ways different from that idea but ...