Grace's History as Fiction Blog

(Disclaimer: I'm not claiming Mr. Wilson is a time-hopper. Just read to find out) As we’ve constantly encountered Billy time-hopping in Slaughterhouse-Five , I’ve become more accustomed to the idea of time being unconfined to the terms “past”, “present”, and “future”. Instead, we have been introduced to capsules of time being chained to each other rather than blending together. This means that one is able to take a chunk of time as a link in a chain, instead of all of time being a flowing stream. In this way, we have seen Billy entering into different, sporadic moments of his life unconsciously. Now, in psychology class, our class is infatuated with the concept of dreams: what they mean, why we have them, and how they work. We talk about them a lot as we discuss what kinds of dreams we have had (nightmares, good dreams, prophetic dreams) and why we dream what we dream. Not to bring names into this but it’s important to mention him because of the fact that he has lived throug...

On the night that we finished the novel Mumbo Jumbo , Mr. Mitchell asked us to answer this question in our notebooks: What is the current state of Jes Grew and the Wallflower Order? In class, we touched on the history of Jes Grew in the form of jazz. Jazz is now seen as a form of “classical music”, and is now performed in fancy concert halls rather than in bars and out on the streets as it was in the 1920s. As a music genre, it isn’t seen as radical anymore, and though it definitely is not “dead”, it has become institutionalized - namely, by white commercialization. However, a music genre that still is perceived as black dominated thrives today. Both rap and hip hop are two of the most popular styles of music listened to in the modern day, and the most notable rappers/hip hoppers are African-American. When Mr. Mitchell mentioned the incident when Macklemore won 4 Grammys for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best New Artist, while Kendrick Lamar won none, altho...