With all of the time travel in chapter seven, I was reminded of an old series I used to read growing up about a kid who could travel back in time with baseball cards. He would also try to go back and change history, but was usually unsuccessful. When thinking about how these two relate, and this chapter in particular, it posed the question of whether or not history could actually be changed if time travel was real. While it sounds really "science-fictiony," it really got me thinking. Why couldn't Billy stop himself from getting on that plane with his father in-law? He knew it was going to crash. If free will really does not exist, then I understand. However, he had the option to not by the ticket or to go back and fake being sick. These things can change. It was a very important question involving the book that could never really be answered.
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