Barnett vividly describes the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a shop/tutoring center he ran in Los Angeles. Explain how this store served as a kind of living example of a setting. Why do you think the nature of this store has a positive impact on the writing that occurred in the non-profit section behind it?

In comparing "minerva and arachne" and "niobe," can you establish a common theme running throughout both texts? how do you think this theme might change if the stories were written in first-person point of view? write a journal entry explaining the theme of both "minerva and arachne" and "nirobe." then, consider how the theme might change if the tales were written using a first-person point of view. use examples and evidence from both texts to support your analysis.