Chapter 4 Post 1

In this chapter, Billy continues his journey on the train with the rest of the passengers. As he sleeps he continues to have flashbacks into his past. During one of these flashbacks he is back on the spaceship of the aliens that had supposedly abducted him. He asks the aliens why they chose him, and they responded with a metaphor. They ask him, "Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" (77) and Billy in fact had. They then go on to explain that they all are "trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why" (77). I am not exactly sure what this means, but i am very sure that it will come into play at some point.