Walking into English class on the first day of school was nerve wracking. I heard rumors about the “great Swansoon”, but I wasn’t sure if I could survive the strong winds that carried loads of homework. And as the semester comes to a close, this assignment is an opportunity for me to look back on my experiences in this class. I have grown a substantial amount as a writer and as a person as a result of being in this class. Throughout the semester, I became more confident in the ideas I had through sharing with my class and more careful in analyzing a reading novels or poems. We were assigned to read Slaughterhouse Five and an optional novel. My optional novel was The Great Gatsby, which was coincidentally my optional novel for last year too. I immediately finished Slaughterhouse Five two weeks after school let out. The only adjective to describe my perspective on the novel was utterly confused. The transitions from character to character and through time and space blindsided me. I almost submitted to defeat, until the Assorted Liars reading was presented. Burroway thoroughly explained the use of constant transitions in time through authorial, spatial and temporal distance. She also addressed the limitations set for authors that deciphers where the intangible distance stops. Assorted Liars corresponded significantly with Slaughterhouse Five because Vonnegut uses many of the techniques that Burroway discusses resulting in a better understanding for me. After reading Assorted Liars, I immediately understood why Vonnegut transitioned from being in war to sitting with a fellow veteran talking about the war. Authorial distance was an underlying pattern that related the three novels together where it was a technique used by authors to associate elaborate feelings to a character to create a bond between the author and the audience. Burroway’s reading led me to a much more open understanding on the way authors write and construct their