Week 13 - All At One Point

After reading, rereading, and looking up summaries for All At One Point, I speculated what takes place during this short story; that the Big Bang is being personified as a group of beings and that Mrs. Ph(i)Nk0's positive energy was what caused it. I liked how everything was kept brief, as if the reader already knew who these people were and what kind of environment they lived in.

I feel like I understand the concept of the Big Bang a little better because of this personification. I was given a humorous story of a group being “packed like sardines” that ended with sudden mourning over Ph(i)Nk0's death. The Big Bang Theory is a complicated discussion in of itself, so I believe it was necessary to tell a story like this to better understand it without getting lost in the scientific details. While this story uses Sci-Fi elements that elude to this theory, and ridiculous alien names for each character, the story itself feels more like a slice of life reading; how the characters lived, the rumors they spread between each other, and how they eventually got along at the end.